Automatically respond to scam calls and emails, keeping scammers overwhelmed with useless work.
Tax it. If corporations use it to replace employees, they should at least also have to contribute to the improvement of society.
I use it to summarize search results on a certain topic, like what packages hold this or that library, stuff like that… or as a more comprehensive man page generator.
It’s my dream that AI takes over middle management and bureaucracy as a whole, and we get rid of all the societal evils that come from corrupt or incompetent management in both - governments and companies. Imagine if every single working person had zero ambiguity in their jobs and complete clarity on when they have to work, and on what. The world would be so much happier!
You should check out the short story Manna. It’s maybe a bit dated now but explores what could go wrong with that sort of thing.
Labour-less advancement. Human pass down centuries of advancement in languages.
- Version 1: Rough input labour steps automation, in restrictive detail.
- Version 2: Multiple labour steps input compiled, in restrictive choice. (Less supervise command)
- Version 3: Task automation. (Communicate wish, whole labour compilations taken care; no production supervise input, only output demands)
The automation gone from “multiple coffee gadgets” to “1 standard coffee button” to “a warm coffee of less sugar request”. (Now, where are human’s place in this picture? A balloon human such in Wall-E movie?)
Currently the obvious use is to help people express their thoughts in words. It’s helped me a lot writing out resumes and cover letters. This can be extended to languages other than our main/first one.
It’s also great to narrow down research on a personal scale in areas where if you have no expertise it would be very hard for you to figure out what you are looking for. I’ve used it to ID plants, insects and diseases successfully. I didn’t get a precise result from ChatGPT, but that’s not what I asked. I just requested pointers in the right direction. It delivered.
The next obvious implementation is with software interface. I’ve already used it (unsuccessfully) to work with Unreal Engine and other 3d software. I got half baked results because the models were not trained specifically for the software in question. But if they were, it would be very easy to just ask the software how to do something instead of searching everywhere for potential answers. That doesn’t sound too far fetched and I heard it’s a feature that will become standard.
I have no idea. Last night I literally got AI to give me instructions on how to shave alligator hair and how to inflate a foldable phone.
AI is not actually intelligent, it’s a word prediction model. It’s royally ignorant actually.
Because of this, I find it basically boils down to a fancy search engine.
I see endless possibilities, but it’s questionable if any of them are realistic before we overcome capitalism.
But one idea I really like is AI helping with the implementation of sortition for democratic decision-making in government.
Recently, the concept got some attention due to climate protesters demanding it, which I think is nice. So while I don’t want to discuss the concept and where it should be applied, here’s what (future) AIs could do:
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Enhanced Random Selection Process: AI can ensure a representative selection from the population for sortition by analyzing demographic data and employing stratified sampling algorithms.
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Personalized Education and Communication: Once participants are selected, AI could offer personalized learning paths to prepare them for their role, and adapt communication to suit each participant’s unique circumstances.
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Facilitating Communication and Mediation: AI can manage communication among the selected group by setting up secure environments for discussion, and serving as an impartial mediator to promote fairness and respectfulness during deliberations.
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Information Provision, Fact-Checking, and Bias Detection: AI can provide relevant, unbiased information on complex topics, perform real-time fact-checking, and monitor discussions for potential biases.
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Emotion and Sentiment Analysis: As discussions take place, AI could detect the emotional states and sentiments of participants, ensuring decisions are not overly influenced by emotional reactions.
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Advanced Simulation and Scenario Exploration: AI could create sophisticated simulations to help participants understand potential outcomes of the policies they are considering.
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Public Accountability and Feedback Collection: After decisions are made, AI can ensure transparency in decision-making by tracking and reporting the progress of the deliberations, and collecting public feedback on the decisions made.
I should probably add that this list was made with the help of GPT 😅 so a more direct answer to your question might be: AI can help humans lay out their ideas and foster discussions.
Capitalism isn’t the problem here, it’s unregulated capitalism that doesn’t work.
Also, you can dislike it but so far, capitalism tampered with socialism, is the best system we have so far. The best Countries in terms of human happines and opportunities (think the Scandinavian states especially and most of central europe generally) are capitalist democracies. We however realised, unlike the US, that you can’t just let corporation do anything they wan and that the state has an obligation to provide services and help to it’s people.
This anti-capitalist sentiment os so common and not really founded in reality that it feels like a mere buzz word at this point.
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LLM’s are worthless and I’m skeptical they’ll ever be otherwise. I think for a program that works roughly like ChatGPT from a user’s perspective to ever achieve usefulness would require a whole different algorithm.
Aight so I’ve been holding off on making conversation since I generally disagree with most of the negative sentiment towards them. But for real, you think they’re worthless? Legit at their present moment they’ve got so much immediate value; how much have you used them?
I’ve pulled tremendous value from them. In my personal life, GPT-4 walked me through developing a Kotlin android app for my smart watch so that I could have access to it more easily and conveniently. It’s provided me guidance and knowledge, even teaching me German and Spanish and holding practice conversations with me. At work, it’s helped me write programs to improve my productivity, taught me how to use software like Excel, and just overal helps me be more capable.
And all that is just one person’s value from it. Just imagine what value it’s creating right now for the millions who use it. Just imagine what it could do in the hands of innumerable virtuous and malicious individuals. It is so far from worthless
Do you trust that the German it’s teaching you is real German? All it’s trained to do is to generate something that could pass as German.
I don’t speak German, but so far my conversations in Spanish have been flawless. So I would trust ChatGPT with language in that regard.
FYI: It’s the same with german. I think you’re quite alright with the ‘big’ languages. I didn’t spend much time with ChatGPT, but even some smaller language models speak multiple languages well enough. I tend to use english, i think the sentences are a bit more expressive and nuanced. But with ChatGPT that’s probably barely noticable.
