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Jim's Cafe - Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 "AI"
- Thread starter Angie
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Huh, that's quite an interesting one. I'm glad you took a swing for the fences on this one @Angie, so thank you for opening this cafe. 
And thanks to @JMG for tagging me, i feel quite honoured by your particular mention of my opinion, mundane as i'm sure my opinion is.
I don't actually.
Because AI isn't quite there yet, so it has a tendency to hallucinate various facts or points of data, and it doesn't yet seem to have a facility to properly weight the information it does find. So it may well present you something it found on, say, the Onion, or Stormfront, completely seriously. Or just make a claim that no human has ever made. When using AI, you have to remember that despite the name, there's no actual intelligence behind it, it's just cribbing from the work of others to effectively imitate intelligence. So given that i would mostly want to use it to answer questions, i don't really trust the information it would provide me over what i could find by googling something myself.
That being said, i do like the Google AI overview, that's a nifty feature for when i'm looking up something really basic, with a really clear answer, like "Where do i find this item in this game." It tends to get the answers to those right, and it saves me sifting through Steam community pages and Reddit threads to find what i need. And i really like some of the joke content people have been making with AI, it lets people completely unleash their creativity and the goofiest side of themselves. It strikes me as a really fun, harmless use for the tech that'll just improve as the AI does. Just a couple of random examples i absolutely adore:
And thanks to @JMG for tagging me, i feel quite honoured by your particular mention of my opinion, mundane as i'm sure my opinion is.
I don't actually.
Because AI isn't quite there yet, so it has a tendency to hallucinate various facts or points of data, and it doesn't yet seem to have a facility to properly weight the information it does find. So it may well present you something it found on, say, the Onion, or Stormfront, completely seriously. Or just make a claim that no human has ever made. When using AI, you have to remember that despite the name, there's no actual intelligence behind it, it's just cribbing from the work of others to effectively imitate intelligence. So given that i would mostly want to use it to answer questions, i don't really trust the information it would provide me over what i could find by googling something myself.
That being said, i do like the Google AI overview, that's a nifty feature for when i'm looking up something really basic, with a really clear answer, like "Where do i find this item in this game." It tends to get the answers to those right, and it saves me sifting through Steam community pages and Reddit threads to find what i need. And i really like some of the joke content people have been making with AI, it lets people completely unleash their creativity and the goofiest side of themselves. It strikes me as a really fun, harmless use for the tech that'll just improve as the AI does. Just a couple of random examples i absolutely adore:
I always enjoy reading your posts, theyāre always thoughtful, interesting and definitely never āmundaneā. Love your reply too, and yes you made a great point with saying whatever āresponseā the AI gives, there isnāt an actual, real intelligence behind it but just whatever itās been trained to do or say. I know they claim some of those AIās can learn on their own but ya I just feel unsure about that I guess lol. Still quite high tech to be able to even do what it does though of course.
Youāre so welcome for the tag/honorable mention, thanks for the acknowledgment about it and for replying too I always enjoy reading your posts, theyāre always thoughtful, interesting and definitely never āmundaneā.
Love your reply too, and yes you made a great point with saying whatever āresponseā the AI gives, there isnāt an actual, real intelligence behind it but just whatever itās been trained to do or say. I know they claim some of those AIās can learn on their own but ya I just feel unsure about that I guess lol. Still quite high tech to be able to even do what it does though of course.
I always enjoy reading your posts, theyāre always thoughtful, interesting and definitely never āmundaneā.Love your reply too, and yes you made a great point with saying whatever āresponseā the AI gives, there isnāt an actual, real intelligence behind it but just whatever itās been trained to do or say. I know they claim some of those AIās can learn on their own but ya I just feel unsure about that I guess lol. Still quite high tech to be able to even do what it does though of course.