I can’t state it any better than The Oatmeal. . . https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
I’ll use it when it makes sense.
Once I searched for a solution to an obscure problem and the AI summary provided the solution that was not in the top 5 or so results.
Other times it’s just an incoherent rambling mess of auto generated stuff intended to make me click.
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.
No reason to, no need to. It really doesn’t enhance my life in any way so what’s the point.
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.
…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
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 like having a soul and personality
Better question:
Why would you want to use them?I don’t need it or want to.
It gives you donkeybrains.
I jerk off manually.
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.
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.
