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This is my personal take. As long as you're careful and thoughtful whenever using them, they can be extremely useful.
Extremely?
Could you tell me what you use it for because I legitimately don't understand what I'm supposed to find helpful about the thing.
We all got sent an email at work a couple of weeks back telling everyone that they want ideas for a meeting next month about how we can incorporate AI into the business. I'm heading IT, so I'm supposed to be able to come up with some kind of answer and yet I have nothing. Even putting aside the fact that it probably doesn't work as advertised, I still can't really think of a use for it.
The main problem is it won't be able to operate our ancient and convoluted ticketing system, so it can't actually help.
Everyone I've ever spoken to has said that they use it for DMing or story prompts. All very nice but not really useful.
I am a creative writer (as in, I write stories and stuff) or at least I used to be. Sometimes when talking to chatGPT about ideas for writing it can be interesting, but other times it is kinda annoying since I am more into fine tuning instead of having it innudate me with ideas that I don't find particularly interesting.
Great for turning complex into simple.
Bad for turning simple into complex.
I think my largest gripe with it is it can't actually do anything. It can just tell you about stuff.
I can ask it how to change the desktop background on my computer and it will 100% be able to tell me, but if you then prompt it to change the background itself it won't be able to. It has zero ability to interact with the computer, this is even the case with AI run locally.
It can't move the mouse around it can't send keyboard commands.
Um… yea? It’s not supposed to? Let’s ignore how dangerous and foolish it would be to allow llm’s admin control of a system. The thing that prevents it from doing that is well, the llm has no mechanism to do that. The best it could do is ask you to open a command line and give you some code to put in. Its kinda like asking siri to preheat your oven. It didn’t have access to your ovens system.
You COULD get a digital only stove, and the llm could be changed to give it to reach out side itself, but its not there yet, and with how much siri miss interprets things, there would be a lot more fires