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What privacy issue makes this a huge non-starter for most?
In short, yes, te the internet 30+ years ago.
It began with PCs running word processors and spreadsheets and people could manage their finances etc. when the “internet” came about you could read the news and access info more easily than before.
I visited 5 continents before cell phones were easily available, there was no GPS other than military, you bought (paper)maps where you go…
Business use aside - how does “genAI” add value to your personal life? It doesn’t for me, yet, and until that changes I have no interest.
I’ve used AI for a couple projects but I’d say the vast majority of its bandwidth is wasted on stupid crap like political images or how to be extremely lazy. Basically for most people it allows them to be even dumber than they already are.
I think this is useful but I'm pretty happy with Google's AI search results at the top of the search results page. It's proven to be fairly accurate, but this would add a significant layer of complexity and credibility.
As opposed to using Google where your privacy is ensured?
It’s proven to be what?
You mean when it suggested that one should eat rocks, or 25 is bigger than 37?
Because they can’t get it integrated is their iOS yet. They just keep dangling the carrot.
"Scared?" No. Do I know it's not a reliable search engine? Yes.
Good point. AI can help to add extra fingers, make lopsided eyes, screw up text, create unnatural horizons and make lighting unnatural much faster than I ever could in Photoshop on my own.
I have found myself using ChatGPT as a search engine, sometimes Google just doesn't understand what I'm asking but ChatGPT knows every time.
So this will give hands off data mining using a search engine and add data to the ChatGPT data base and ChatGPT claim they didn't scrape or mine this information and the user adds it to the 420TBs of knowledge file.
Cool Concept. Ai ChatGPT I use for digging deeper into a subject that a search engine may not provide.
Chatting Ai... that's another and is scary. Look up Ai chat friends in any of the OSe`s App stores.
Talking to non-human in the future looks scary to me talk about mental health issues.
Cool Concept. Ai ChatGPT I use for digging deeper into a subject that a search engine may not provide.
Chatting Ai... that's another and is scary. Look up Ai chat friends in any of the OSe`s App stores.
Talking to non-human in the future looks scary to me talk about mental health issues.
I think DuckDuckGo became an option in iOS 8. Used it ever since, still no need for change.
"AI sucks for privacy and reliability" is not dumb per se.
But compared to Google... Come on, be rational and objective, guys.
Try to google a comparison between products, you'll get pseudoblogs full of ads who paid Google to be on top. They'll all have their owner on top.
Google a practical question like "how to check if an egg is still good". You'll get more pseudoblogs full of ads with a 10 pages fake-essay that starts with the history of eggs. And... it's probably AI generated, which is what makes me laugh harder at some of the anti-AI people here.
All of this is packed with 4000 cookies if you accept them, 700 if you only accept technical cookies.
You people watch too many movies where robots defeat humanity.
ChatGPT is not perfect but better than Google for 90% of your needs, in any possible way.
Again, not perfect, but there's no need to hate it like grumpy old men.
But compared to Google... Come on, be rational and objective, guys.
Try to google a comparison between products, you'll get pseudoblogs full of ads who paid Google to be on top. They'll all have their owner on top.
Google a practical question like "how to check if an egg is still good". You'll get more pseudoblogs full of ads with a 10 pages fake-essay that starts with the history of eggs. And... it's probably AI generated, which is what makes me laugh harder at some of the anti-AI people here.
All of this is packed with 4000 cookies if you accept them, 700 if you only accept technical cookies.
You people watch too many movies where robots defeat humanity.
ChatGPT is not perfect but better than Google for 90% of your needs, in any possible way.
Again, not perfect, but there's no need to hate it like grumpy old men.
Despite what this thread would have you believe, AI can be useful in select situations. Tools like Gemini have features built in that recognise this.
I used it to help prepare for a job interview and it worked amazingly well. Did I tell it to write my CV, cover letter, and then sit the interview for me? No.
Did I spend hours re-writing my old CV and cover letter to make them more relevant to the job, and then ask it to remove areas I repeated myself while clearing up any grammatical errors whilst retaining my writing style? Yes, and it was very effective. I still had to edit things after, but it was as effective as someone who would require payment for these services.
For interview prep, I told it to ask me all of the most common interview questions relating to this role, provided the answers to which it suggested improvements, to which I took onboard and rewrote the answers. At the end, I told it to export all of these questions and answers to a Google doc, which it did.
The interview prep was invaluable as someone who rarely switches jobs, and in this case I landed my first ever promotion and completely switched sectors in the process (customer service to IT). IT is something I've been trying to get into for decades, and I don't think I'd have been given a chance without an AI coach.
You can make the ethical argument that I've made another real person's job irrelevant by doing this, but I have no intent on ever paying for such services. My writing isn't great, but it's comprehensive enough to be readable. Gemini just helped with uprooting some of the weeds.
I fully expect the irrational AI hate to continue for many though, especially when LLMs like this are being marketed as something they are not. Like others have said, it's still often quicker to do your own research when it comes to interests. You have to be extremely specific when it comes to the prompts, which can be paragraphs long themselves.
Outside of job interviews, Gemini also came in handy for planning my financial future and increasing debt payments to be rid of it sooner while remaining within my budgets. It took all of my info, broke it down into easily digestible chunks, and then taught me how to setup a spreadsheet with relevant formulas so that I can easily add expenses etc each week.
Most people are just using it wrong, and that's okay.
I used it to help prepare for a job interview and it worked amazingly well. Did I tell it to write my CV, cover letter, and then sit the interview for me? No.
Did I spend hours re-writing my old CV and cover letter to make them more relevant to the job, and then ask it to remove areas I repeated myself while clearing up any grammatical errors whilst retaining my writing style? Yes, and it was very effective. I still had to edit things after, but it was as effective as someone who would require payment for these services.
For interview prep, I told it to ask me all of the most common interview questions relating to this role, provided the answers to which it suggested improvements, to which I took onboard and rewrote the answers. At the end, I told it to export all of these questions and answers to a Google doc, which it did.
The interview prep was invaluable as someone who rarely switches jobs, and in this case I landed my first ever promotion and completely switched sectors in the process (customer service to IT). IT is something I've been trying to get into for decades, and I don't think I'd have been given a chance without an AI coach.
You can make the ethical argument that I've made another real person's job irrelevant by doing this, but I have no intent on ever paying for such services. My writing isn't great, but it's comprehensive enough to be readable. Gemini just helped with uprooting some of the weeds.
I fully expect the irrational AI hate to continue for many though, especially when LLMs like this are being marketed as something they are not. Like others have said, it's still often quicker to do your own research when it comes to interests. You have to be extremely specific when it comes to the prompts, which can be paragraphs long themselves.
Outside of job interviews, Gemini also came in handy for planning my financial future and increasing debt payments to be rid of it sooner while remaining within my budgets. It took all of my info, broke it down into easily digestible chunks, and then taught me how to setup a spreadsheet with relevant formulas so that I can easily add expenses etc each week.
Most people are just using it wrong, and that's okay.
Literally this.
Instead of using Google if my egg is okay, I can instead tell Gemini/GPT the same query and it'll quickly walk me through the best tests to check the egg.
You can then tell it the outcome and it'll provide further info. Could be the difference between fried egg or fried fishy smelling goop.
At least Googles board haven’t fired their CEO for being untrustworthy.
I don’t trust google, but I trust the Altman cult less.
OpenAI aside, your options will rapidly diminish in the following years. It’s just how it is.