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I’m a simple man. I just want to look up a quick bit of information. I ask the AI where I can find a setting in an app. It gives me the wrong information and the wrong links. That’s great that you can do all that, but for the average person, it’s kind of useless. At least it’s useless to me.

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You aren’t really using it for its intended purpose. It’s supposed to be used to synthesize general information. It only knows what people talk about; if the subject is particularly specific, like the settings in one app, it will not give you useful answers.

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- Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mentioned somewhere in here that I created a document with it and it turned out really good.
  
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  - Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, it’s pretty good at generating common documents like that
    
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kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So you got the wrong information about an app once. When a GPT is scoring higher than 97% of human test takers on the SAT and other standardized testing - what does that tell you about average human intelligence?

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- Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s not once. It has become such an annoyance that I quit using and asked what the big deal is. I’m sure for creative and computer nerd stuff it’s great, but for regular people sitting at home listening to how awesome AI is and being underwhelmed it’s not great. They keep shoving it down our throats and plain old people are bailing.
  
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  - Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    tl;dr: It’s useful, but not necessarily for what businesses are trying to convince you it’s useful for
    
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  - kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, see that’s the kicker. Calling this “computer nerd stuff” just gives away your real thinking on the matter. My high school daughters use this to finish their essay work quickly, and they don’t really know jack about computers.
    
    You’re right that old people are bailing - they tend to. They’re ignorant, they don’t like to learn new and better ways of doing things, they’ve raped our economy and expect everything to be done for them. People who embrace this stuff will simply run circles around those who don’t. That’s fine. Luddites exist in every society.
    
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