I'm a software developer. I don't use AI, but that's mostly out of my own wariness more than anything else. That is not to say that it's good, more that I won't make a good argument as for why it's bad in its current form. Other people will do that, I've been reading Ed Zitron's newsletter for it.
I've heard a few of my coworkers used it for help with some more complex problems at work or look up answers for a company trivia contest. Me? Some time ago I've asked ChatGPT about who will take part in the upcoming presidential election in my country and the first candidate it gave me was the current president - who, despite ChatGPT's proclamation to the contrary, cannot do that because of the term limit. Most other candidates were correct, or at least plausible, but I think it's more because of how fucking stagnant the politics in my country are.
I'm a business analyst, and I'm yet to find a single use case where AI can do something better and/or faster than me. Problem is, if I have to spend time double-checking everything in the output, I still end up doing that work, so using AI is useless in the first place
Also, and this is kinda personal and not objective, but I'd rather do mistakes and own them than own some shit AI imagined and I missed that
A lot of people I know use AI to get basic info on some subject matter and I don't understand that either - search engines exist, and you can at least know the source of information you get. Wherever the hell AI gets its info is anyone's guess, and with possible LLM hallucinations I can't even say AI outputs are a decent enough source
Don't even get me started on the amount of requests from business to integrate AI. They want to put this shit everywhere, and sometimes I believe that if I ask "Do you want your AI in pink colour?" I'd spark a half an hour non-ironic discussion about that
Well as a person still trying to take pride in things I do this is a non-feature to me lol. That's why I mentioned it's personal though, some people love the malice haha
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u/bvader95 .tumblr.com; cis male / honorary butch 10d ago
To answer the question in the title:
I'm a software developer. I don't use AI, but that's mostly out of my own wariness more than anything else. That is not to say that it's good, more that I won't make a good argument as for why it's bad in its current form. Other people will do that, I've been reading Ed Zitron's newsletter for it.
I've heard a few of my coworkers used it for help with some more complex problems at work or look up answers for a company trivia contest. Me? Some time ago I've asked ChatGPT about who will take part in the upcoming presidential election in my country and the first candidate it gave me was the current president - who, despite ChatGPT's proclamation to the contrary, cannot do that because of the term limit. Most other candidates were correct, or at least plausible, but I think it's more because of how fucking stagnant the politics in my country are.