How often do you use AI? [i.e. ChatGPT / Grok]

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Completely agree on the DIY expansion due to YT and now AI. It's incredible how much more I can do for myself due to these resources.

As far as the value of "old timers", many of them (including me) are making crap up as they go and passing it off as fact. The value of human experience is still valuable in many areas but information gatekeeping is not one of them.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Completely agree on the DIY expansion due to YT and now AI. It's incredible how much more I can do for myself due to these resources.

As far as the value of "old timers", many of them (including me) are making crap up as they go and passing it off as fact. The value of human experience is still valuable in many areas but information gatekeeping is not one of them.

Right. The problem is when the AI or internet is not available your average person won’t be capable of figuring anything out on their own. If the human mind is nursed on artificial “milk” it won’t know how to find food for itself when its digital mother is unavailable.

Worst case scenario, we become absolutely dependent on AI and China or some other adversary of the US takes down our internet and we’re all screwed because no one knows how to do anything anymore without asking AI. The smart phone has already shown this pattern. Take away someone’s phone calculator and then ask them to do some basic mental math. Ask someone to drive without a navigation system and they can’t navigate on their own. People don’t even have a road atlas in their car anymore.

I realize my “worst case scenario “ is probably a bit far fetched but we see the same thing in lesser degrees already happening.

 

[Westslope406]

As a college instructor, I’ve had students use AI quite a bit ( not exactly using it in the best way) but usually easy to catch.

Always be weary of what you put into this AI systems. Many use input to train algorithms, so that’s why they are wrong often.
Be careful with sensitive information as that gets logged and used to train also .
There are a few platforms that do not use input for training.