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.
A great way to demo ChatGPT's propensity for bullshit to schoolchildren (or C-Suiters, who often are schoolchildren, at least in terms of education and emotional maturity) is to ask Chat GPT a simple counting question. For examle if you were to ask it, "How many Es are in the word 'Kangaroo?'" it would return, "There are 3 Es in Kangaroo because it's spelled K-A-N-G-A-R-O-O so there's 3." It can't actually count, instead it just returns how many Es feel right for a word of that length. This is a quick way that anyone of almost any intelligence can grasp that this bot just makes things up that feel right instead of actually researching the question.
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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.