Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoI’m in college and for one of my classes we actually have a prompt we feed to ChatGPT so that ChatGPT creates an excel spreadsheet for us as a step in an assignment process. The whole spreadsheet.
The class is for healthcare and I won’t get more specific, but yes, you can use AI today to make whole ass Excel spreadsheets.
(One of the steps in that particular assignment involves fact-checking the spreadsheet, btw, but about 95% of the time all the answers are word-for-word in the book, 4% they’re taken from the web and have more up-to-date info than the book has, and 1% is blatant lies.)
aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lol, it amazes me what some people are impressed by
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, so far when someone shows me a concrete example of this amazingly complicated thing that GenAI helped then realize, I think “really… that’s it?”
It’s a decent reminder that a lot of people have more modest needs and a lot of the enthusiasm can come from that, and maybe that’s more understandable.
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 5 weeks ago
It’s a decent reminder that the kids are not alright.
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Tbh I’m old. The first computer I ever used didn’t even have a GUI. That a machine can take my specs and spit out a spreadsheet is fucking unbelievable to me, and I refuse to become so jaded that I can’t be impressed with the leaps forward that stuff makes.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This isn’t me being jaded. This is me saying “whole ass Excel spreadsheets” is an extremely low bar. Especially when almost two trillion dollars was pissed away getting it here. Imagine if someone had pumped that money into literally anything else.