I‘d say if you are up to date with what AI is actually capable of and understand what it’s doing when synthesizing data then you are able to use it as an effective tool. Blindly believing its answer to any question seems to be the issue here and that‘s where the general public is right now. Although most AI companies have some way of informing the user that the answers aren’t always accurate, it might be important for these companies to be more transparent and upfront about these facts.
May 2, 2025
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people need to learn about hallucinations if they are going to use ai generated content. especially ai generated content for the purpose of learning.
things like chatgpt may seem to output legitimate answers, but it does not understand what it outputs. it does absolutely no thinking at all! each word after the other is generated because STATISTICALLY it is most likely to be the next best word. chatgpt is not trained to respond "I don't know" and will just try to respond with an answer that statistically makes the most sense in response to your prompt! leading to sometimes bs responses!
fact check everything!
Jun 4, 2025
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I worked in a lab that used machine learning to identity things about cells and tissues that would take a human years just due to how time consuming it would be to count and compute by hand. Other science applications are potentially finding cancer earlier and earlier for better outcomes. People also sometimes clown on people who need chatgpt to make a grocery list for them, but I think assisting people with ADLs could be really beneficial too (though there’s getting to be some tricky nuance with people using it for too much instead of letting themselves be challenged a little and idk where to draw that line). I just don’t want restaurants to use AI generated photos on their menus, I get uneasy with people submitting photos of themselves to be transformed with AI, and I don’t think art, poetry, literature, etc should use AI. The whole point of being creative is to do the creating, not to get a computer to do it for you lol. And people said similar things about digital art, but with that you’re still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isn’t even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if it’s stolen…
May 24, 2025
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IMO. Solution without a problem yet.
I personally think AI art looks like shit too. Part of the joy of art is knowing that a human created this and trying to unpack after around that like what were the influences, what were they trying to convey. AI will never be able to explain WHY it produced something in a satisfying way. In fact, from what I can tell, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to be able to explain how a LLM generated the answer at it did. (but I could be wrong). My response to most AI art is "wow those colors are really rich" or "this is so creepy."
On the margins I think there could be some efficiency gains (stuff like "take this complicated piece of data and summarize it for human consumption") that could change industries, but I think at this point it's mostly vaporware.
And if general AI is ever let out into the wild god save us all.
Mar 1, 2024
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oh boy this one is gonna be controversial. first off to be transparent I am a huge nerd and train models for a living. that being said, I was a huge ai hater for a long time and never used it in anything I did.
Then, I started using it a bit for coding, then for research (tool use ftw), then for a whole bunch of simple tasks I wanted to automate but couldn’t w pure code (either due to needing unpredictable input or needing buttons pushed).
Is it super useful, not yet. Should we replace people with it, obviously not. But like dude. You can TALK to your computer in ENGLISH (or french, arabic, japanese, etc.) and it will understand you and respond. I think the like crazy shift in human - computer interaction here is kinda slept on ngl, I fw this heavy now.
Feb 24, 2025
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