Also ChatGPT vows can be way more customized and personalized than Google vows. Give it roughly want you want to say and iterate until it sounds the way you want.
Besides the energy consumption I don’t think it’s bad. You’re just using a tool like before you might have used a thesaurus or dictionary to search for the right words.
The only problem I see with it is the usual pitfall of LLMs.
“We’re not stupid”, the AI fans say. “Of course we look through the output carefully, and will meticulously make sure it makes sense.” And then they don’t actually do that.
“It’s only one of the tools at our disposal, don’t worry!” …so what other tools did these giant AI fans use, again? Oh.
I mean, if people genuinely actually use LLMs just as one tool among many, and actually genuinely find a way to use them to improve their own output, it’s great! (For example, I’m using AI for image captioning and it cuts down a lot of work.)
I’m just saying that I often need to take claims that people are using these tools responsibly with some grains of salt, though.
I’m so thankful that I got to retire from the programming profession before this AI shit took over (although I did get to spend a couple of decades burdened by junior developers, which is basically the same thing). If I were still in the shit, I would use LLMs for their proper purpose: proving to management that I’m using AI.
Also ChatGPT vows can be way more customized and personalized than Google vows. Give it roughly want you want to say and iterate until it sounds the way you want.
Besides the energy consumption I don’t think it’s bad. You’re just using a tool like before you might have used a thesaurus or dictionary to search for the right words.
The only problem I see with it is the usual pitfall of LLMs.
“We’re not stupid”, the AI fans say. “Of course we look through the output carefully, and will meticulously make sure it makes sense.” And then they don’t actually do that.
“It’s only one of the tools at our disposal, don’t worry!” …so what other tools did these giant AI fans use, again? Oh.
I mean, if people genuinely actually use LLMs just as one tool among many, and actually genuinely find a way to use them to improve their own output, it’s great! (For example, I’m using AI for image captioning and it cuts down a lot of work.)
I’m just saying that I often need to take claims that people are using these tools responsibly with some grains of salt, though.
I’m so thankful that I got to retire from the programming profession before this AI shit took over (although I did get to spend a couple of decades burdened by junior developers, which is basically the same thing). If I were still in the shit, I would use LLMs for their proper purpose: proving to management that I’m using AI.