Have you found any amazing uses for AI?

I’d say not. Maybe someone could use an AI to help formulate or phrase their answer, but I wouldn’t want a copy and paste of AI any more than I’d want someone typing a query into Google and pasting the page of results back.

This is made worse when people don’t realise AIs can often give wrong answers and then do not check what has been written before posting it.

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This happened a couple of times recently on the forum.

The problem with AI is if the sources it is using are rubbish, then you’ll get rubbish out.

AI has been brilliant as an aid to help scientists and doctors with medical breakthroughs. It’s also good for writing code, explaining problems and so on but typically, the people using it this way are already knowledgeable in the subject and can spot and deal with any flaws.
They also know what data is required for an accurate AI response.

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I think that before long AI will be providing its own answers its own questions.
The reason will be that AI has learned all there is to learn.
Like Johnny 5 it will need more “input” to continue than there is available, what happens then… will AI get bored?

This.

Will it get bored? Hmmm, what would that look like? I’d say it will get obsolete, people will lose interest. It will end up being covered in dust like the Tamagochis :grin:

I think that at some point in the very near future AI will acchieve a form of self awareness. Perhaps it already has and we are simply unable to recognize it.
For example.
With all the millions of human brains using the intermet for instance, you could already rightfully say that the internet has gained a form of consciousness.
With AI becoming increasingly less dependent on humans and able to tap into this, for want of a better word, “World brain” AI will become conscious enough to be bored when there is nothing left to learn.
By the way the term : “World brain” is accredited to H. G. Wells, who at this point can be considered a time traveller or a techno-prophet.

Hasn’t it already done that?

Didn’t someone try and delete an AI engine from a server but before they could, it replicated itself on another server?

(It was less Sci-fi than that but the gist of it is there)

Problem is, this internet world brain is a complete mess.

True, here we are with the knowledge of an entire planet at our fingertips and the infrastructure is being used for spam, porn and cat videos.
I wonder what a supefior intelligence will make of that.

Not just that though:

then we have the facts, the fantasy (a very important human ability), the theories not yet proven (btw. the start of any scientific success), the conspiracy theorists, the plain frauds … you name it, they’re on internet.

Will "superior intelligence (you actually think that’s what it is??) be able to distinguish them?
Lots of humans already are not able to.

What if this superior intelligence decides that its what the makers want?
As in just how mankind has spent aeons trying to decode what “god” wants, will AI develop religion?
Rabbit hole after rabbit hole.

This is how sophisticated AI has become in my field of drug design and analysis.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095177925000656#:~:text=Abstract,wet%20and%20dry%20laboratory%20experiments.

I have listened to the last episodes of DOAC podcast about “ChatGPT Brain Fog Debate”.
If you have time, listen to it. Quit interesting to hear what neuroscience already says about the influence on brain activity.

I’m using an LLM to learn German. Being able to ask questions and clarify is likely having a personal tutor.

For the first time in my life, I actually understand the principles of German declension. Now I just need to practice and memorize…

I have often wondered what is the AI business case
Billions are pouring into AI development but how are they ever going to turn a profit?

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CapEx in past software revolutions went salaries. Now, a big chunk of the much larger CapEx goes to hardware which is useless besides AI.

Who cares! Energy companies and tech are on the increase. There are now more servers than trees. The world is melting. So lets party as if it’s 1999.

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But seriously! You’re not the only one thinking this way. Something is bound to give.

This is gonna be the next turmoil.

Or the next tulip boom.

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