AI can’t be all that bad. The problem I’m always seeing with AI is a double-edged sword. You have corporations shoving AI in just about everything, treating it like its a cure for cancer and that really rubs people the wrong way. Then, on a more of a society level, you’ve got people who use AI for an assortment of things like making art with AI and still accredit themselves as an artist to people who treat AI like a therapist when it is not advised to.
However, I’ve found some benefits with AI. For example, I’m chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It’s helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.
If we’re strictly talking about LLMs: Certain accessibility services - MAYBE. Writing closed captions / transcription for the most part requires little “human” touch. If we ASSUME that AI will be able to it reliably one day - because it really can’t yet - that’s one thing that would benefit society.
Image descriptions is another thing I might see done by AI one day but that still requires an understanding of what’s actually important about the image.
I built a system that translates subtitles from English to my native language and it beats cheap-ass “official” translations 9/10
It even gets colloquial terms and phrases right, adapting to the correct song for example - something a human translator working for minimum pay usually won’t bother
Please go watch the yt video of Bernie Sanders discussing politics/society/civilization with Claude.ai
That may blow your mind…
It’s … not quite as limited as you, or I, had been believing…
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