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  • So today I had it do a bunch of fractional math on dimensional lumber at the hardware store. While it was doing this math for me it asked if this was for the guitar project I was working on in another chat, where I was mostly asking about magnetic polarity and various electronic, and yes it was. So then it made a different suggestion for me, which made a big impact on what I bought. I know that’s vague, but it was a long conversation.

    Then, when I got home my neighbor had left a half dead plant on my stoop because I’m the neighborhood green thumb apparently. I had never seen this plant before. Took a photo, sent it to AI, and it told me what it was (yes, with sources).

    Then while I was 3d modeling some shelf brackets, it helped my design by pointing out a possible weight distribution issue. While correcting that, I was able to reduce material usage by like 30%.

    I don’t see any of that as “delusional”

    But to the topic at hand, I think the conversations groups and pairs of humans have, both online and real life, will always be more damaging that what a single person can trick a computer into saying.

    And by tricking it… you are abusing a tool designed for a different purpose. So, kitchen knives. Not meant to be murder weapons, certainly can be used for that purpose. Should we blame the knife?

    I also had it make you this image:

  • All the rich have to do is keep raising rent, keep home prices high, and continue lobbying to take our rights away… so far, they have been wildly successful with zero evidence of it slowing.

    The price I’m paying now for a 2 bedroom apartment in the suburbs in a “pretty good” complex is $2200/m. It’s not fancy, just average.

    10 years ago, in the same area, I rented a three story, three bedroom, two car garage townhome for $1500.

    I am making about the same amount of money now than I was then. I’ll take that amount, because more isn’t possible to find right now.

    Minimum wage in my area is ~$16.50

  • Oh, well that explains everything, you are using it wrong.

    A lot of people think that you’re supposed to argue with it and talk about things that are subjective or opinion based. But that’s ridiculous because it’s a computer program.

    ChatGPT and others like it are calculators. They help you brainstorm problems. Ultimately, you are responsible for the outcome.

    There’s a phrase I like to use at work when junior developers complain the outcome is not how they wanted it: shit in shit out.

    So next time you use AI, perhaps consider are you feeding it shit? Because if you’re getting it, you are.

  • Tell me more about how you’ve never ever used it and that everything you’re saying is influenced by the media and other anti-ai user comments.

    Let’s see what happens when I google for UFOs or chemtrails or deep state or anti-vaccine, etc. how much user created delusional content will I find?

  • Do you mean without stepping foot in Florida? Probably nothing. And even then, it would take a Rambo style frontal assault.

    Or, join the government and have a meeting about a meeting to decide if you’re going to have a meeting to decide if this is a situation that requires an action meeting.

  • You could say the same about social media and the entire internet. Would you choose to regulate that?

    I recall in the mid 90s a group of people on the street corner protesting AOL (America OnLine) and saying the internet should be stopped.

    They may have had a point, but the technology wasn’t to blame for the shit that’s it’s used for.

    The vague way you talk about AI makes be think that you don’t know much about it. what do you use AI for? Is it ChatGPT?

  • I feel the guardrails are in place, and that they will be continuously improved. If a person finds a situation where an AI suggests they kill themselves without being prompted, say, during a brainstorm about strawberry cake consistency—if you were dead you wouldn’t have this problem—would be… concerning.