I’ve yet to see AI for any of the things I’d actually like it for. It’d be good if I could use it as a natural language compatible filter for my feeds, for example. I’m interested in gaming news but have zero interest in a number of popular genres, settings, and so forth. Having an AI look at the feed and be able to spot the rough shape of stuff I don’t care about and throw it away would be useful to me and mistakes wouldn’t matter.
Similarly I could do with something on the desktop that helps me keep my files tidy. Learn the way I’d like to do things and help me keep things sorted. If unsure, learn when I’m likely to be willing to answer questions and ask for clarification then. Worst case scenario it misfiles something and there’s an interface to ask it “the file about the thing - where is that? It’s not where I would expect”.
Instead I’ve got shit like “let us summarise email for you”. If the email is long enough that I’d need a summary then it’s too important to be entrusted to the Hallucinatron 5000. If it’s short enough that it would be safe then there’s zero time saved for me. A few sentences? What an insurmountable challenge - help me, Twatbot 2.0.
All valid points. Highjacking this comment to share a good use for AI: I have been using Deepseek to run a solo DnD campaign. If you give it a rule sheet it’s really good for a few days.
I’ve yet to see AI for any of the things I’d actually like it for. It’d be good if I could use it as a natural language compatible filter for my feeds, for example. I’m interested in gaming news but have zero interest in a number of popular genres, settings, and so forth. Having an AI look at the feed and be able to spot the rough shape of stuff I don’t care about and throw it away would be useful to me and mistakes wouldn’t matter.
Similarly I could do with something on the desktop that helps me keep my files tidy. Learn the way I’d like to do things and help me keep things sorted. If unsure, learn when I’m likely to be willing to answer questions and ask for clarification then. Worst case scenario it misfiles something and there’s an interface to ask it “the file about the thing - where is that? It’s not where I would expect”.
Instead I’ve got shit like “let us summarise email for you”. If the email is long enough that I’d need a summary then it’s too important to be entrusted to the Hallucinatron 5000. If it’s short enough that it would be safe then there’s zero time saved for me. A few sentences? What an insurmountable challenge - help me, Twatbot 2.0.
All valid points. Highjacking this comment to share a good use for AI: I have been using Deepseek to run a solo DnD campaign. If you give it a rule sheet it’s really good for a few days.
The only valid use case for AI in my experience is helping with Linux, and even then you gotta make sure not to trust it too much
I find it useful for doing tedious stuff that I can easily review - writing argparsers for functions I’ve written, for example.