No reason to, no need to. It really doesn’t enhance my life in any way so what’s the point.
Artificial or not, there’s still no actual “intelligence.” The answers from it are notoriously unreliable, and I don’t think that can ever truly change until there’s actual intelligence behind those answers.
Because:
- I’m not a lazy, smooth-brained rube.
- I’m not in the business of selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes
- I have no stake in the supply chain nor do I stand to profit from those selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes.
Furthermore:
- I don’t trust “AI”. If I’m going to have to fact check it anyway, might as well just do it myself and earn the damn knowledge.
- AI does not work for me (or you). It works for the companies who are forcing it on you and sucking up your data.
- The energy costs and water requirements are mindbogglingly staggering
- I refuse to feed or ride any hype train
- It’s creating scarcity of things that could be put to better use (energy, water, computer components, land, talent, you name it).
- It’s not even AI. It’s just a dead-end bullshit generator
I am but but still try to avoid it.
Tried it, can’t find a practical use for it.
Closest I got was as a thesaurus, but an actual thesaurus is faster and more comprehensive.
…I think its important to keep ‘machine learning as a neat tool’ distinct from cultish ‘AI’ futurology. Hence some folks might interpret this questions as “why aren’t you using AI yet, bro!? AGI’s inevitable, get on board!” The latter is what a lot of news/advertising is blasting.
Transhumanism could actually be considered a legit cult. So could cryptobrooism i suppose but that would be stretching the definition a bit.
Transhumanism is cool though! I adore the OA universe, for example: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front
Cults don’t have to be bad. vOv
I like having a soul and personality
I don’t need it or want to.
Better question:
Why would you want to use them?It gives you donkeybrains.
The only AI I use and would recommend are image and song generators because they get funny as hell.
You talking about LeBron James retired as a sushi chef serving a whole tuna head to Tom Cruise? Bam, picture in the group chat.
Waiting for your buddy to finish diarrhea bombing their toilet? Boom, 90s gangster rap song with a violin interlude about dropping dookies made in 2 minutes.
i haven’t seen much a use yet for the stuff being hawked as AI these days. i tried once or twice recently, but the results were pretty dogshit. obviously i do interact with ai every time i play a video game, or use my phone to scan a qr code, navigate to a new location with a gps app, or do basically anything with a computer. but i suspect these humdrum uses of ai that have been normalized for decades aren’t what you were asking about.
I jerk off manually.
Technically, I do sometime read the AI overview when I search something. But I don’t use any other AIs. I just don’t have a need to. Normal chatbots always felt so hollow to me, like I couldn’t sense any humanity in them or something. Making them smarter doesn’t look like it has helped. The screen shots I see make AI look incredibly sycophantic and like it’s trying too hard to sound human. It comes off even more off putting to me. I do sometimes come up with idea that could make use of image generation, but I have made the decision that if I want an image, I can either pay someone to do it, or do it myself. Most of the time it leads to me not doing anything with the idea. But that’s fine. But I do still sometimes work up the drive to actually try to draw though.
One issue is that AI in its various forms makes it far easier than it had been to use such a tool without understanding what the limitations are. Garbage in, garbage out still applies, but if the user can’t tell the difference, the garbage gets spread as quality work. This had led to the term “AI slop” which has morphed into a general “I don’t like this post” label.
Another bigger issue is the origin of the data for training, which unfortunately has tainted good uses for these tools (when used within their limits, as stated before). I agree with this concern, but once LLMs and related AI became freely open to the public, that ship has sailed and even if there was a company that could even prove its AI was trained only with legitimately obtained information (which could make it more limited than the ones out there), would anyone believe them?
A related issue on training would be how the AI was trained (ignoring the problem of the source of the data). The very fact that LLMs were modeled to give proper and positive answers only leads to the conclusion that it has long moved from a research project to find AGI into a marketing ploy to give the best impression on the ignorant public to profit from. This gets into the “AI slop” area of seemingly good results to the average user when it is not, but rather than slop it’s deception.
I’m fine using AI as long as it is my hands and not my brain in the tasks it helps me accomplish. To that end…I rarely use it outside of programming these days.
There are some tasks like art that I do not think AI should be broadly used for though.
