Maybe not Chat GPT specifically, but you can hardly use the internet without some AI being pushed on you.
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Not understanding how to use new technology, even flawed ones, isn't a flex
I understand LLMs well enough that I really don't want to use them because they are inherently incapable of judging the validity of information they are passing along.
Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's right. But they don't tell you when they're wrong, and to find out if they were wrong, you now have to do the research you were trying to avoid in the first place.
I tried programming with it once, because a friend insisted it was good. But it wasn't, and it was extremly confidend, while being exceptionally wrong.
Congrats, then don't use it to validate information.
LLMs are incredible text generators. But if you are going to judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, then you are never going to find its potential.
Yes, there are tons of bogus AI implementations. But that doesn't say anything about the validity of the technology. Look at what VLC is doing with it for example.
It is pretty clear by those statements that you understand LLMs less than what you claim.
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It's so strange seeing people being proud that they can't keep up with the technologies.
I used to know a guy like that. He would say stuff like "I didn't even know how to use a computer mouse!" It definitely sounded like he was bragging. Such a weird thing to be proud of.
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Yeah, that's just judgemental and presumptive.
I have quite a lot of shit in my life, and I have actively decided to pay no attention to AI. Not because "I can't keep up with it" but because after some research into it I decided "it was bullshit and nonsense and not something I need to know about"
Mate, I don't know you and I don't care about you. Stop talking about yourself for a second. You posted a screenshot where the person said "I have never even tried it." That's it.
Cus you don't need to try something to have done some research on why you wouldn't. A basic, cursory search of 'what is chat gpt' would get you LLM, and a basic cursory search of LLM gets you 'machine designed to make shit up whenever it doesn't know the answer, meaning you can't trust it'. Not to mention they've probably seen at least one screenshot of it failing miserably at counting letters in a word. Or they've seen the ai answers Google shoves down their throat and learned from basic word of mouth that GPT is More of That. The only thing they said they don't know is WHERE GPT is, or how it's accessed.
Look, this is your life. If you want to be miserable, angry and left behind - fine, I don’t care. You don’t need my permission. So stop wasting your and my time.
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Some people are very proud of not knowing things
There's a difference between not knowing something because of ignorance and not knowing something because you know you don't need to know it.
I have no idea how to rebuild a combustion engine.
Is that something of which I should be ashamed? Or something I have actively chosen not to learn because when will I ever need to know it?
Would you be the sort of person to proudly proclaim their lack of knowledge about combustion engines at the time they became a thing?
To be honest? Yeah.
In my last job before this one I learned a lot of stuff about a topic I needed to know for that job.
But now I have a new job I don't need to know any of that stuff. So I am slowly forgetting it because I don't use it. And instead I am learning a lot of stuff about things I need for my new job.
And in the midst of all of this why would I take the time to learn something I am never going to use. At all. Ever. I have far too much stuff to learn and remember, and why I would need to learn how to plug the camshaft into the reverse socket twink-phlange?
I am not afraid of technology. It doesn't scare me. I am not sitting in a cave railing against these kids with their short skirts and their long hair and their music and "they didn't do these things in my day"
I just made what I consider to be a fairly educated judgement call that this is something I don't need to care about.
This isn't about not needing to learn. If you don't see any use for this newfangled internal combustion then why learn about whether it is a tiny horse or whatever. But this telling people with pride how little you know is almost always eyeroll worthy. Like wow very cool you don't know something...
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I use it somewhat regularly to send snarky emails to coworkers in a professional, buzzword overload responses to mundane inquiries.
I use it every so often to help craft a professional go fuck yourself email too.
Wait, people actually try to use gpt for regular everyday shit?
I do lorebuilding shit (in which gpt's "hallucinations" are a feature not a bug), or I'll just ramble at it while drunk off my ass about whatever my autistic brain is hyperfixated on. I've given up on trying to do coding projects, because gpt is even worse at it than I am.
They absolutely do. Some people basically use it instead of Google or whatever. Shopping lists, vacation planning, gift lists, cooking recipes, just about everything.
It's great at it, because it'll bother trawling webpages for all that stuff that you can't be bothered to spend hours doing. The internet is really soo shitified that it's easier to use a computer to do this.
I hate that it is so. It's a complete waste of ressources, but I understand it.
It's a waste of your resources to close popups, set cookie preferences and read five full screens about grandma's farm before getting to the point: "Preheat the oven to 200°c and heat the pizza for 15 minutes.", when ChatGPT could've presented it right away without any ads.
Brought to you by chrome being the biggest browser and it willfully enshittifying adblockers, which incidentally made searching way more tedious and funneled people to LLMs.
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Using AI is helpful, but by no means does it replace your brain. Sure, it can write emails and really helps with code, but anything beyond basic troubleshooting and "short" code streams, it's an assistant, not an answer.
Yeah, I don't get the people who think it'll replace your brain. I find it useful for learning even if it's not always entirely correct but that's why I use my brain too. Even if it gets me 60% of the way there, that's useful.
I'm using it to learn to code! If anyone wants to try my game let me know I'll figure out a way to send it.
I use ChatGPT mainly for recipes, because I'm bad at that. And it works great, I can tell it "I have this and this and this in my fridge and that and that in my pantry, what can I make?" and it will give me a recipe that I never would have come up with. And it's always been good stuff.
And I do learn from it. People say you can't learn from using AI, but I've gotten better at cooking thanks to ChatGPT. Just a while ago I learned about deglazing.
You should try this thing, its pretty neat, just press maya or miles. Though it requires a microphone so you may have to open it on your phone.
https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo