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TribblesBestFriend 36 points 6 months ago

And if ChatGPT made a mistake? How would you know before it’s to late ?

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Reverendender -4 points 6 months ago

Because all other information on credit cards (or anything else) on the internet available to people eager to learn is 100% accurate, all the time?

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TribblesBestFriend 15 points 6 months ago

I’ll take that over an information tool that lie 30% of the time

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a_non_monotonic_function 6 points 6 months ago

That is absolutely the worst excuse possible to shill for big tech that comes with no real guarantees about precision or accuracy.

While there are trustworthy human sources in the Internet, there are no trustworthy LLMs.

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racoon 1 point 6 months ago
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Reverendender 1 point 6 months ago

100%

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aReallyCrunchyLeaf 25 points 6 months ago

The technology itself is novel and cool. Its the complete and utter meltdown of all tech companies into brainless hype machines that is harmful, which is course, is a function of capitalist incentive and the need for the tech industry to come out with some new paradigm shifting innovation every decade. A normal, healthy society would have been able to leverage machine learning and LLM technology where its most useful, like parsing large amounts of data, or running a local instance on your computer to ask a few questions, etc. We wouldn't see LLMs in every text editor, pencilcase and pair on sneakers but these snake oil salesmen who run the US economy are absolutely desperate for a new paradigm shift so they can keep making exponentially more money.

The thing is, we don't need to build these datacenters siphoning comically evil amounts of energy from the grid and making personal compute a thing of the past. Average everyday person doesn't need cloud compute, they can run a local 4b parameter (very, very small) model on their laptop or phone if they need to ask chatgpt to make them a workout routine or to ask them who won the 1918 world series. But these fucking cretins don't care, that's not the point, they are in this because it's a golden ticket to growth city and once they cash their check they don't give one hot fuck about the human-spirit-stealing-machine they built.

TLDR: our society is broken and that's why we keep getting the shittiest, lowest-common-denominator version of everything. everything has to suck by definition because that's the only version that the system we built will allow.

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Reverendender 5 points 6 months ago

Accurate

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seahag 24 points 6 months ago
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iByteABit 3 points 6 months ago

It can also identify/predict cancer tissue early.

Do you mean an LLM or a machine learning model specifically trained for this?

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seahag 2 points 6 months ago
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iByteABit 1 point 6 months ago

From what I understand here it's their own ML model then, cool

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Paragone 0 points 6 months ago

Different case, obviously, but I remember reading about an AI which can identify pending-heart-attack from x-rays .. and nobody could figure-out what the hell it was judging from..

THAT is brilliant.

Specialized to the degree that it is trustworthy.

I'd be surprised if humans could possibly compete against a properly-done set-of-AI's, which worked through, in the correct order, all possible diagnostic-reasoning.

Democratizing accurate-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution the world needs, now.

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logos 19 points 6 months ago

I have a friend at work that does a lot of video. He films weddings, music videos etc. and is making a pilot for Netflix. He uses AI to go through all his footage and tag it according to content. E.g. if he needs a clip of birds, he can just search ‘birds’ and it will pull up all relevant footage. Incredibly useful.

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Jimmycrackcrack 3 points 6 months ago

This could come in pretty handy for me. What's he edit on that does this?

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logos 1 point 6 months ago

It’s a custom app he made using ai vision and xml files I guess. He uses DaVinci resolve though

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Jimmycrackcrack 3 points 6 months ago

Is the AI vision local?

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lepinkainen 0 points 6 months ago

Multimodal local models like qwen3.5 are pretty good

Basically you grab screenshots from the video at intervals and ask the model to tag / describe them.

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hexagonwin 1 point 6 months ago

that seems like a great system, i wonder how it's structured.

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Melonpoly 1 point 6 months ago

I feel like this was a thing before it got put under the banner of AI

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DarrinBrunner 14 points 6 months ago

For every small benefit, there are disastrous mistakes. We shouldn't discuss one without the other:

https://tech.co/...

March 2026

  • Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

February 2026

  • Health advice given by AI chatbots is frequently wrong, says new study

January 2026

  • Study reveals that fixing AI mistakes takes up to 40% of the time that it saves

  • An AI tool used by ICE to identify applicants with previous law enforcement experience falsely flagged applicants with no such experience, leading to the placement of unqualified recruits in field offices.

December 2025

  • AI mistakes clarinet for gun at Florida school

November 2025

  • Google Antigravity deletes entire content of user’s computer drive

  • Report finds AI hallucinations in 490 court filings from the past six months

October 2025

  • Teenager handcuffed after AI mistakes Doritos packet for gun

  • Lawyer submits AI-assisted court filing with fake citations

  • Man follows ChatGPT advice over stopping eating salt, develops rare condition. The man was hospitalized, sectioned, and eventually treated for psychosis. He tried to escape the hospital within 24 hours of being admitted.

  • ChatGPT-5 jailbroken with 24 hours of release

July 2025

  • AI Coding app deletes entire company database

  • McDonald’s AI chatbot error exposes data of 64 million job applicants

  • AI program is tasked with running a small shop, goes insane, claims to be human

  • Apple Intelligence falsely presents BBC headline

... and it just keeps going.

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HobbitFoot 3 points 6 months ago

So don't put AI in front of anything mission critical or without going through a review of a human.

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GiorgioPerlasca 3 points 6 months ago

So LLMs in agentic mode are a disaster waiting to happen.

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HobbitFoot 3 points 6 months ago

God yes.

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Lumidaub 12 points 6 months ago

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.

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lepinkainen 0 points 6 months ago

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

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Paragone -2 points 6 months ago

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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MerrySkeptic 11 points 6 months ago

I'm a therapist. I use HIPAA compliant AI to generate my (editable) case notes for my sessions now. Not only is it a huge time saver to simply edit a generated note as opposed to making one from scratch, but in many cases it takes more detailed notes, including quotes from clients.

I have heard of other therapists and medical doctors also using AI to help with diagnosing.

The danger is when therapistsdon't review the content to check for accuracy. Because occasionally it will generate something not really reflective of what the therapist might have been doing, or it might lack detail that the therapist might have otherwise inclused. But more often the stuff it comes up with is surprisingly accurate.And editing is even easier when you can just tell the AI something like, "include more details about how the client noticed their pattern of putting their own feelings last," and it just does what you asked. You don't necessarily have to edit manually, though you can.

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The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points 6 months ago

So how does that work? Do you just have an AI listening throughout the session like a note-taker?

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MerrySkeptic 8 points 6 months ago

Yes basically, but since it is HIPAA compliant the recording is automatically destroyed when the note is saved. Also no protected recordings are used to teach the AI. The therapist can also choose from a number of different case note formats that might focus on different things

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helix 3 points 6 months ago

no protected recordings are used to teach the AI

How do you know for certain?

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SuperUserDO 8 points 6 months ago

People conflate security with risk mitigation. It's not secure in the way that you can confirm the data has been deleted. The risk however is mitigated due to vendor attestations reinforced by contracts.

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MerrySkeptic 2 points 6 months ago

I can't know for certain, as I'm not on the product side of things. But I do know that HIPAA standards are very rigorous and if it were discovered that they were intentionally misleading therapists and clients then it would invite a class action lawsuit that would be insanely large.

I do ask for and document my clients' consent, though, so if anyone is not comfortable with it that's fine. I just write the note the old fashioned way. Most are fine but a few have said they don't want to and it's not a big deal.

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lepinkainen 1 point 6 months ago

A HIPAA violation is a death sentence to a company, along with massive fines.

There’s no incentive for them to fuck around

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fizzle 1 point 6 months ago

I dislike this immensely and actively seek health care providers that don't use these tools.

My core problem is that I want a professional who engages with me as a human and knows me.

I'm a professional (not in health care) but I "know" all of my clients, and I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation for a client or patient. When I pay $100 to talk to a GP for 10 minutes, I don't think it's too much to ask for them to have a conversation with me, really truly listen to me, and spend a few minutes writing some notes.

In the case of a mental health professional the time spent after an appointment with a patient is much greater. I don't really want what I've said to be automatically converted to notes for a human to review. I want a human to consider the human to human conversation we have had, in the context of other conversations we have had and the relationship I have with them, and use those insights to produce appropriate documentation.

Finally, I have a strongly held belief that relying on the assistance of gen AI reduces one's skills and abilities. For example, consider two therapists who have just completed their education and accreditation and start seeing patients. One uses gen AI to produce notes for every patient, the other eschews this practice. Ten years later, which therapist would you really trust to listen to patients and be able to distill the key elements of the conversation both spoken and unspoken?

That said, I'm aware that these services are becoming an industry standard. I suppose they may help therapists see more patients, and in the context of public health that might be a good thing. Whether or not I would use a service like this if I were a therapist is a difficult question to answer. If I were just starting out I think I probably would. That is to say my beef isn't with you personally using a service like this, more that it's becoming an industry standard.

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MerrySkeptic 1 point 6 months ago

I understand those concerns and I think there's validity. But there's also enormous potential for benefit.

I know of several therapists who are very good at being present with a client but terrible at documentation. And if one of these has a busy day or two it is easy to get behind. By the time they get around to writing the note the details are very fuzzy. Human memory is notoriously unreliable. A therapist I respect has said that if you're writing a note 24 hours or more after the session, you're probably writing fiction. A tool like this has the potential to greatly help the documentation process. But I agree that it should never become a replacement. I thoroughly read all my notes and often make edits to make them more relevant to me.

An attorney I know who specializes in representing therapists and regularly conducts legal and ethics trainings has also said that from a legal standpoint, when comparing human to AI generated notes, the AI notes are usually superior. They contain details like quotes and they automatically include all the stuff that matters for legal or insurance requirements. This attorney is VERY risk averse and honestly I thought she would have been against this, expecting horror stories like artifacts. Her opinion was a factor in me trying it out.

Again, I stress that this is a tool and not a replacement. When I read through a note, I am considering the things my clients said and my interventions to see if it matches up. It's not perfect but it is very good and I've regularly been surprised with how helpful it can be.

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fizzle 1 point 6 months ago

Thanks for a considered response. As in all things, there's nuance and I acknowledge there are benefits.

I'm genuinely curious as to whether you think reliance on this service will diminish someone's opportunity to build the related skills?

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MerrySkeptic 1 point 6 months ago

I think that given human nature, there will certainly be some providers who overly rely on it. There are already therapists and other professionals who cut corners where they shouldn't in a variety of ways. Probably the most common example of this is when therapists write bare-bones notes with practically no useful information to bridge one session to the next. That's been happening since documentation was a legal requirement.

However, as always, any serious professional is going to take the time to do it right. They will understand how to use a tool effectively while keeping their skills sharp. In my field, with this tool, that would mean every note is read and edited so that it is truly useful. For example, editing the content of the note so that it can be interpreted through the therapist's theoretical orientation.

I would hope that training programs and continuing education providers emphasize that any note they sign, including one generated by AI, is one that they are still legally responsible for. So it behooves them to always read it thoroughly and check it for accuracy.

With any new tool, certain skills will diminish but new skills will be developed. So writing skills may suffer, but good therapists will be good at editing and using effective prompts to get a good note.

Also, for what it's worth, documentation skills and intervention skills are very different. I have known a few excellent therapists who were absolute shit at documenting. These therapists tend to be so naturally gifted and intuitive that they don't need to document very well to be effective. And many therapists write very good notes but are mediocre at the actual therapy. So, at least for now, I tend to see the potential pros as outweighing the potential cons. That could change though!

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WoodScientist 10 points 6 months ago

Running automated hacking and blackmail campaigns against AI companies.

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umbrella 9 points 6 months ago
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CrabAndBroom 3 points 6 months ago

I tried out a game/demo thing that was a tester for AI NPC dialogue. I asked an NPC to tell me about himself and he replied that he could not connect to server lol

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sangeteria 3 points 6 months ago

There's that one silly vampire game which uses AI NPCs, I think it's kind of fun looking from people I saw play it

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MorkofOrk 8 points 6 months ago

An amazing use for it in audio engineering is for feedback suppression. The old way to give yourself more headroom required you to sit there and turn up the gain until feedback happens and cut that frequency. Now you just turn on the feedback suppression and it does all that for you on the fly. It's game changing for live sound, every major venue has it now.

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Jobe 4 points 6 months ago

Great for film sound too. You're filming a rainy scene and the rain is way to loud? You had to get the actors into the studio and do voiceover, now you can often just filter it out.

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MorkofOrk 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah you're right! It's the same for all unwanted noise. Rustling, wind, buzz, ac noise. All of it can be filtered out now! You can even take away the reverb from an untreated room and add in your own reverb. Convolution reverb is amazing, you can actually capture the reverb of any space you want and add it into your recording in post. I honestly don't know how much an expensive treated room matters over some investment in the plugins that let you do those things.

An example for movies: instead of trying to capture the actors talking inside their helmets for Interstellar, they actually made an IR inside of the helmet itself and added that to the overdubs!

The way you create an IR (impulse response) to capture the reverb of a space is you take a speaker and play a sine wave (or a gunshot/balloon pop,) then record it with a good mic. Then just take that WAV file and put it into a convolution reverb plugin. It sounds identical, the technology is amazing! You can use this to capture all kinds of analog circuitry like guitar amps also, that's how they make those guitar amp plugins.

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eru 1 point 6 months ago

feedback suppression has been a thing for ages

it does not require AI, all you need to do is identify the consistent tone and subtract it out

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MorkofOrk 1 point 6 months ago

I know it doesn't need AI for older versions of feedback suppression, but there are newer systems using it that are more effective at dynamically subtracting those frequencies

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eru 1 point 6 months ago

i have never seen a pro live sound engineer use AI to do this

and i dont think a neural net will have significant improvements over standard ways to do it like the neve 5054 at the same latency

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MorkofOrk 1 point 6 months ago

Yeah you know what, I definitely am wrong about this, I totally thought they were using AI but that makes way more sense

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rossman 6 points 6 months ago

rubberducking for those with social anxiety. Also small friction to get surface level answers that normally took digging from multiple sources.

it's a study monster that initially wiped chegg, duolingo, sparknotes etc. The double edge is that people forgot how to take notes, learn fundamentals to handle complex problems.

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CanadaPlus 6 points 6 months ago

Anything that's fuzzy and impossible to automate with traditional algorithms, but that also has a reasonably high tolerance for error. It just makes up stuff a good portion of the time, you see.

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.

Watch out, personal finance is not one of those things.

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Tenderizer78 6 points 6 months ago
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CanadaPlus 2 points 6 months ago

If you're thinking of protein design it is, just with a sequence instead of natural language text. Although it's not just a straight LLM, there's some kind of physics awareness engineered in as well.

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Techlos 6 points 6 months ago

Curating massive music libraries. I've been using a small embedding model to organise my music for DJing, and being able to generate a t-sne plot clustered on perceptual similarity has been wonderfully useful.

I've also found CLIP models useful for searching videos, just embed a screenshot every couple of min of footage and query with a description of the scene.

And as bad as generated subtitles can be, when the only other option is nothing at all they are pretty nice to have.

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Danitos 6 points 6 months ago

Accesibility.

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shellington 6 points 6 months ago

I agree there is a lot of annoying hype. However i also agree there are some specific use cases where it can be helpful.

I for one find it handy some times when i am writing bash scripts to do things on my system. I obviously check them before running but it does save time.

Although i do recommend running models locally if possible as it is obviously preferable from a privacy and cost standpoint.

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damnthefilibuster 5 points 6 months ago

I was sitting in a restaurant the other day and staring at the menu. It was Italian and none of the things made sense. Too wordy and not clear what was meat and what was fancy cheese. The waiter was utterly useless - too busy to help and when present, not answering my questions about what would be a good simple pasta in white sauce.

I took a photo and asked Claude what’s a good white sauce pasta which would be like Alfredo.

It found two options I hadn’t even looked at. AI is good at sorting through complexity. But I don’t just mean AI as in LLMs. It needs a lot more tools and knowledge to be useful. So what you need is a smart system which may or may not have AI as a component.

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iguessimlemming 1 point 6 months ago

Going to Italy to use an LLM to find pasta Alfredo is.. well, there's your use case. Pure and unfettered ignorance. I will take my down votes now, thank you. I don't care. Ugh. Just ugh.

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damnthefilibuster 2 points 6 months ago

Oh, it was an Italian restaurant but not in Italy. It was in North America. The menu was in English.

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iguessimlemming 1 point 6 months ago

Apologies!!

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verdigris 5 points 6 months ago

Chatbots? Basically nothing. Any interaction I have with one leads to spending more time verifying its output, inevitably finding many mistakes, and eventually finding a primary source for what I'm actually looking for. The best actual impact it has is forcing me to narrow down my nebulous question into what I actually specifically want, but the bot itself is contributing very little to that.

Neutral nets in general have limited real usefulness in analyzing large batches of data when other purpose-built analysis software doesn't exist.

"AI" is a misnomer and there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that we're even on a path toward actual AI, sometimes called AGI, though they're also changing that to just mean a profitable LLM which is fucking hilarious.

Any task you use a bot to do, you will become worse at that task. For mass data analysis, that's fine, poring over reams of data is already a skill that other technology has largely obsoleted. But using it to do research, to read or write for you, or god forbid to make actual decisions and think for you, are very slippery slopes that are already causing a lot of the general public to seriously erode their basic mental capabilities.

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lattrommi 5 points 6 months ago

I went to my local neighborhood association because I wanted to improve where I live. I was elected president of the association a couple months later, mostly because no one else wanted to do it. It's a fairly poor part of a medium sized city in the U.S.

I've been using AI (running locally on a computer I built that isn't connected to the internet, to reduce harm to the environment) to apply for grants, plan events and help me run the meetings.

It is actually perfect for the job. Saying that as someone who thinks AI is mostly hype and useless for the majority of its current common uses these days. I feed it the text from city grant applications or ask it to make a poster to increase attendance and it's saved me a lot of time. Without it, being someone diagnosed ADHD, I would not have been able to do most of the stuff I have accomplished so far.

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whotookkarl 5 points 6 months ago

Not a hot dog

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bandwidthcrisis 2 points 6 months ago

Theme parks do use image recognition to flag obscene things in ride photos.

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racoon 4 points 6 months ago
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tomiant 4 points 6 months ago

Learning, exploring concepts and ideas.

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thatsTheCatch 4 points 6 months ago

Most of my qualms with AI aren't in the usage of AI, but in its creation (water usage, mass layoffs, etc.—you've heard it all before).

To me it's like asking "What are some good uses for slaves?" (An extreme example to show the point, I'm not trying to say AI is the same as slavery).

Like yeah I could find good uses for it, but should it exist in the first place?

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hexagonwin 3 points 6 months ago

seems to be decent for OCR, maybe also speech recognition. i hear it's okay for finding some concept you can explain abstractly but don't know the exact word for, but haven't tried this personally.

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lepinkainen 1 point 6 months ago

ChatGPT is pretty good at “what was that thing where…” type of stuff and usually gets it on the first go

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Azrael 3 points 6 months ago

Some hospitals use AI to scan patients and find signs of illness before it becomes a problem. I'd say that's a pretty good use of AI.

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Jobe 3 points 6 months ago

In engineering/manufacturing, machine learning can be used to monitor performance and predict part failures of machines so you only do maintenance when it's actually required. Parts are usually replaced when the warranty runs out, but they will often still be good for a while.

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WolfLink 3 points 6 months ago

LLMs tend to be a “jack of all trades, master of none”. You are likely to find them useful for helping you with something you are inexperienced at, but not at something you are an expert in. However, because they lie a lot, it’s best to double-check your information, but the LLM can still be helpful with the ”you don’t know what you don’t know” issue.

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Oisteink 3 points 6 months ago

Reading TOS and clicking off all the privacy options on the cookie popup

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moakley 3 points 6 months ago

Honestly, Google Search has been better the last couple years after spending the previous twenty years getting consistently worse.

Most of what I use Google for is trivial. Like how old is a certain actor, or why was this author canceled, or what does this item do in a video game?

It's great for those things. Especially the video game stuff. I don't want to watch a 10 minute video just to get a discrete answer, and now I don't have to.

I can even ask it for spoiler-free hints on a particular puzzle, and most of the time it gives me something useful.

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aceshigh 3 points 6 months ago

It’s very helpful for neurodivergent people - helps you figure out who you are and what you want, how you think, learn and work best, identify your obstacles and help you overcome them, understand your neurodivergency and compare it to how neurotypical people think. It’s fantastic at generating ideas that you then test out. The ideas that it gives you are based on how you actually function, so often times they’re valid.

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verdigris 1 point 6 months ago

No one should be using a corporate chat bot to "figure out who they are".

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aceshigh 1 point 6 months ago

Eh, you try different strategies and you find things that work. Ai is a tool.

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verdigris 1 point 6 months ago

It's a tool for the owners, it's a trap for the users. The sycophancy and malleability of the chatbots makes them not just unsuitable as replacements for therapists, they can be and often are actively harmful, validating problematic, spiraling or psychotic thought patterns.

I know that therapy isn't accessible for everyone, but any actual human you can talk to is better than a chat bot in this context.

I would rather someone vibe code critical infrastructure with a chat bot than use it for mental health.

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lepinkainen 3 points 6 months ago

I have a script that uses yt-dlp to get subtitles off a YouTube video and summarises the main points for me with a language model so that I don’t have to watch a 20 minute top10 list video that could’ve been a buzzfeed article.

The whole thing is fully vibe engineered too.

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semi 3 points 6 months ago

In computational biology / biotechnology, LLMs are being trained on biological sequences and can then be used to generate new genes or genetic variants. These genes can be placed into bacteria who are then fed with e.g. sugar to make them produce various valuable molecules from renewable resources instead of from crude oil using conventional chemistry. There is also work on enabling plastic biodegradation this way.

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makingStuffForFun 3 points 6 months ago

I had a project of markdown files. About 400 of them, with about 1200 plus links in them.

The original filenames were changed. The links no longer worked.

The LLM went through each link, and found the new one, based on filename and file content, using its ability to recognise patterns, words, etc etc.

Absolutely saved me maybe a couple of days of manual pain labour, and all done in about 10 minutes.

This is the kind of thing I use it for. Horrible repetitive processes.

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thedeadwalking4242 2 points 6 months ago

It's ok for very furnace level exploration. Like 100 level stuff. If it's something you'd google and easily find in an article it's likely to do a ok job.

I've also found it's good for tedious straightforward tasks. Anything that would be uncomfortable or timely or automate manually. Best for one offs.

I've also found it's extremly good for translation, which was it's originally use.

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EyIchFragDochNur 2 points 6 months ago

I'm chatting with Le Chat about things I wouldn't ask a friend and wouldn't trust a stranger about. It brings up things I wouldn't have thought of.

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ProfessorScience 2 points 6 months ago

I occasionally use it to find links to VODs for esports tournaments. Asking it to only link the specific game I want with no other summarization is a way to find them without spoilers (like when youtube "helpfully" suggests the last game of the grand finals of the tournament as a search result).

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ChonkyOwlbear 2 points 6 months ago

Karrot is a used item app that has a feature where you take a picture of an item and it IDs the item and tells you what it's worth. It's pretty impressive. It could ID my houseplants better than some dedicated plant ID apps I've used. It's not great with one of a kind items, but otherwise it's surprisingly accurate.

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crunchpaste 2 points 6 months ago

Well, I know its quite specific, but nothing beats AI at stereo matching and depthmap generation and that's important in many fields.

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bibbasa 2 points 6 months ago

neuro-sama

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geneva_convenience 2 points 6 months ago

Vibe coding slop you don't need to work in production

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Lushed_Lungfish 2 points 6 months ago

I've used it to summarize long documents.

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kugel7c 2 points 6 months ago

Sorting millions of things by some visible (to cameras) feature completely automatically, especially if the cost of a miss is low.

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CrabAndBroom 2 points 6 months ago

I actually find it pretty helpful for tech support stuff. It doesn't always get it right, but it's usually at least in the right general area and TBH it beats going through endless forums where the answer is buried among 8 pages of people bickering about nothing, or those ones where someone has your exact problem and then replies "nm I fixed it" and doesn't say what they did.

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder 2 points 6 months ago
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Jaegeras 1 point 6 months ago
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ferric_carcinization 1 point 6 months ago

I've been pretty happy with OCR.

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pineapple 1 point 6 months ago

If your really bad at coding like me then its useful for debugging when I'm running short on time, but I always prefer to search it up.

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defrostedLasagna4921 1 point 6 months ago

You could ask it what's in an image, then do your own research on what it tells you. I used it to identify a math function from a meme.

It can also just be fun to toy with. I personally like to play with image interrogation in StableUI, then put the generated caption into an img2text. Like some sort of alternate reality image. It gives pretty funny results sometimes.

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AceFuzzLord 1 point 6 months ago

Probably one of the best use cases I've seen for machine learning ( not the other LLM mega junk ) has been a recent game used it to allow the PVP/E CPU enemies to adjust to the map terrain.

There are probably much better uses for machine learning, but I haven't personally seen them AFAIK nor can I think of any others since my brain is falling asleep and I'm struggling to stay awake right now.

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bandwidthcrisis 1 point 6 months ago

Pixel phones can monitor phone calls for scam conversations (it runs locally on the phone, so audio doesn't get saved or uploaded).

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communism 1 point 6 months ago

The relevance for me personally is whether or not they can be useful for programming, and if they're accessible to run locally. I'm not interested in feeding my data to a datacentre. My AMD GPU also doesn't support ROCm so LLMs run slow as fuck for me. So, generally, I avoid them.

LLMs consistently produce lower quality, less correct, and less secure code than humans. However, they do seem to be getting better. I might be open to using them to generate unit tests if only they would run faster on my PC. I tried deepseek, llama3.1, and codellama; all take like an hour+ to answer a programming question given that they are just using my CPU, as my GPU doesn't support ROCm. So really not feasible for anything.

Depending on what you count as AI, I think some of the long-existing predictive ML like autosuggestions based on learning your input patterns are fine and helpful. And maybe if I get a supported GPU I won't mind using local LLMs for some things. But generally I'm not dying to use them. I can do things myself.

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Rai 1 point 6 months ago

Everything Kitboga has used it for and is currently doing with it. Hilarious AND interesting!

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cerebralhawks 1 point 6 months ago

I’m good with asking DuckDuckGo for help with a game and AI scrapes the game sites to just give me the answer. You know, sites like IGN and Dutch with popups and ads and other trash… and AI just steps past all that shit and gets me the answer. I’m fine with that. All these sites are just scraping guides and such, I don’t mind if they get stepped on.

Like, tell me how to save both the Geth or the Quarians in Mass Effect 3. So if you don’t know, Mass Effect was this kinda mediocre space shooter with magic, and it was fun… but then you get to the second one and it remembers all your choices, and there’s so much to do. And the Geth were the bad guys in the first one. And if you’re playing a male character, the Quarian is this hot middle eastern type lady you can romance. Then you meet a nice Geth (it’s a long story and the game is longer) and by the third one, you do this mission, it’s a lot of bullshit, then this bullshit boss fight, then you get put on the spot. I’m not going to spoil it, but for like 99.99% of us, one of your crew dies. And it sucks. But if you made some very specific choices, going back to the very first one… you can save both. I’m talking like 100+ hours since you made a mistake that didn’t even matter then, but it locks you out of saving one of your people. Stuff like that.

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tyler 1 point 6 months ago

You need to differentiate between generative AI, NLP, machine learning, etc. Your question is pretty much entirely pointless otherwise.

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sylver_dragon 1 point 6 months ago

I regularly use CoPilot to search Microsoft documentation for me. E.g. I needed to find a particular interface in Entra and couldn't remember where it was. So, I asked CoPilot and it got me to the right spot. I've thought about asking it about Microsoft licensing, but I figure that might result in CoPilot becoming self aware enough to kill itself.

I also use a number of AI agents built into the cybersecurity tools I use on a daily basis. Generally stuff along the lines of "find all the cases related to this system/IP/user/etc" type queries. It's also good for questions like "how do I tune this alert" so I don't have to remember whatever bullshit process this vendor put together for tuning false positives. Our primary SIEM/SOAR tool has an AI which does initial triage and investigation work and it's not terrible. It struggles with correlations for more complex events, usually highlighting events which have no bearing on the event in question. But, it often provides a good first pass and description our first line analysts can use to start a real investigation.

AI is a tool. And like a lot of tools, it has it's benefits and limitations. The problem is we're still figuring all those out and the people marketing these tools don't want to admit to the limitations and they over-sell the benefits, then blame the user when those benefits don't materialize. Given how much modern economies are based on information and knowledge, I do expect AI to have some lasting impact, but I also expect that we'll adapt and it will just be another way of getting things done in a generation or two.

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daniskarma 1 point 6 months ago

I use it to extract structured data out of an unstructured source were programmatic approaches would fail.

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SaveTheTuaHawk 0 points 6 months ago

In science, pubmed searches only terms in titles and abstracts, but LLMs will specifically search every figure and supplementary file. But you have to manually confirm because sometimes they just make shit up.

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Chais 3 points 6 months ago

sometimes they just make shit up.

Kinda disqualifies it as a "search engine" in my book.

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melsaskca 0 points 6 months ago

It's not intelligence and it is a passing fad. I could be wrong though. The only thing I can think of is a car assembly line that has robots and people. You could get rid of the people, thus freeing up their time for a better quality of life.

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DarkCloud 0 points 6 months ago

Writing and fact checking ONLY the most basic concepts and common information that is found multiple times and in multiple places online (eg. It's strongly reenforced and verified in the training data and has/will be the same for a long time).

Mass formatting, changing formats, changing language, and decoding via common methods.

Pitching "what you mean, but can't remember the name for".

...and that's about it.

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daannii 0 points 6 months ago

Language translations.

I think that's about it.

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nutsack 0 points 6 months ago

most software companies are writing as much code with it as possible. it's replacing junior level software engineers. it has completely transformed the tech industry in a way that there is no coming back from

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metakrakalaka 0 points 6 months ago

It's good as an assistant.

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mo_lave -1 points 6 months ago
  1. Drafts, coming up with ideas you may not have thought of initially
  2. Grading whatever you write against the quality of other trained material, especially research papers (LLMs tend to be trained more on those material)
  3. For LLMs that search the internet/cite sources, it can be a more powerful search engine. Enter a keyword, the LLM can guess other semantic terms related to your search prompt/terms and refine the results that way. The additional search results cited matter to me more than the response itself (which can hallucinate, but have a niche role as a wildcard if you're the type to pattern-match concepts into new ideas)
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Paragone -5 points 6 months ago
  1. it is THE best brainstorming tool there is for writing with.

  2. it helps one discover all the weaknesses in what one has written, though not necessarily for the reasons that'd be best ( I downloaded a local LLM, tried it, & discovered that it WOULD NOT ADMIT that Netanyahu's "Israel" is genociding Palestinians.. until finally I found a quote of an Isreali military official admitting, to Israeli journalists, that yes, the Palestinian numbers were accurate, so it was 70k, not 7k, dead, of them, as they'd been insisting all along..

( https://www.theguardian.com/... )

I don't need ideological-torque that facts can't even budge, in my own computer.

Fuck that shit.

  1. it is brilliant for doing web-search, for finding stuff that normal web-search is too dumbed-down to find. Trying to find a specific video, or channel, on yt, & their "search" function won't let you find it? Ask an AI. Trying to find some organization you remember reading-about years ago? Try an AI. Etc.

  2. I'm hoping that somebody does a specific-LLM for each subdiagnosis, & correctly chains the things together, so it isn't only statistically-reasonable, but accurate diagnoses, & renders doctors irrelevant for diagnosis: total democratizing of medical-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution that our world needs.

  3. I wish that bad-teaching were replaced with good personal-agents or personal/offline chat, so that ALL learners could have best-of-breed mentoring in all the subjects they want ( within limits: our world doesn't need more evil-makers, obviously ), & learning could be broken from the "education" cartels which currently "own" it.

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