I have no idea. Last night I literally got AI to give me instructions on how to shave alligator hair and how to inflate a foldable phone.
AI is not actually intelligent, it’s a word prediction model. It’s royally ignorant actually.
Because of this, I find it basically boils down to a fancy search engine.
That’s the thing though, it’s not a search engine.
It’s a language prediction model, if you ask something that it has learned well and predicts correctly you’ll get a nice answer that makes you feel like it’s a search engine.
If you ask something more obscure or confuse it with words, you’ll get back garbage that hopefully doesn’t look like a right answer, because it’s much better to have a useless answer than a deceiving bad one.
It’s my dream that AI takes over middle management and bureaucracy as a whole, and we get rid of all the societal evils that come from corrupt or incompetent management in both - governments and companies. Imagine if every single working person had zero ambiguity in their jobs and complete clarity on when they have to work, and on what. The world would be so much happier!
You should check out the short story Manna. It’s maybe a bit dated now but explores what could go wrong with that sort of thing.
I just read the first two chapters. Yes, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture but the dystopia portrayed in that story started with Manna being an unregulated monopoly that was given power over everything.
In real life you perhaps won’t take it that far. All decisions would still be made and signed off by humans, AI would just be the planner/scheduler. And no tech services firm would want to get into employability tracking, they’ll quickly get chewed out by regulators if their AI product started discriminating against candidates in hiring.
Ideally it would help put real, complicated but achievable solutions forward to some of the world’s toughest issues, like poverty, hunger, war and disaster,. AI is but a tool and in the current trajectory, much of its use is to advance the interest of capitalist moguls. In order to heed answers of improved AI models to achieve ideals of a harmonious world, we need to start with a change with our society to work towards it and accept change away from purely monetary ends.
Tax it. If corporations use it to replace employees, they should at least also have to contribute to the improvement of society.
Automatically respond to scam calls and emails, keeping scammers overwhelmed with useless work.
The real robot wars will be the Scam Call AI vs. the Scam Call Answering AI.
It will be like a new version of chess: Bobby Phisher vs. Magnus Callusthen
I mostly see psychological benefits:
- Building confidence in writing and (when roleplaying) in interacting with other people. LLMs dont shame, or get needlessly hostile. And since they follow your own style it can feel like talking to a friend.
- related to that, the ability to help in processing traumatic events through writing about them.
For me personally, interacting with AI has helped me conquer some fears and shame that I buried long ago.
