• Optional@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I’ve been asking a bunch of next-to-obvious questions about things that don’t really matter and it’s been pretty good. It still confidently lies when it gives instructions but a fair amount of time it does what I asked it for.

    I’d prefer to not have it, because it’s ethically putrid. But it converts currency and weights and translates things as well as expected and in half the time i’d spend doing it manually. Plus I kind of hope using it puts them out of business. It’s not like I’d pay for it.

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      19 hours ago

      I refuse to believe that it’s in any way better or faster at unit and currency conversion than plain Google or DuckDuckGo. Literally type “100 EUR to USD” and you’ll get an almost instant answer. Same with units: “100 feet to meters”.

      And if you’re using it, you’re helping their business. It’s as simple as that.

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        I refuse to believe that it’s in any way better or faster at unit and currency conversion

        I’m trying to think of a way I could give a shit. . . . MMmmmmnope.

        And if you’re using it, you’re helping their business. It’s as simple as that.

        O no i are evilz! Hey I don’t have to ask AI if you have a giant stick up your ass because frankly that sounds dangerous but maybe you can stop being a holier-than-thou prick? Oh! I typed something into AI! I’ve ruined the planet and killed all the innocents!! Bad me!

        First of all, you’re a flatulent poisonous idiot because you can’t actually explain how I helped “their” business without being wrong, and secondly you’re an arrogant dipshit because LLMs run locally so there’s no ‘business’ to ‘help’ (heaven forfend), and thirdly you’re a smelly idiot with a big butt and you like to smell your own butt because you knee-jerked your way into a discussion about the current state of consumer-facing AI by screeching that IT BAD.

        Yeah no shit, it’s “bad”. Do you not understand how Microsoft works? Does the whole of the fascist techno-state elude your finely-tuned sense of morality? Well why the fuck are you on a computer then - you’re contributing to the problem! How can you be so callous and ignorant as to not only use pen and paper?! Just admit you love licking fascist boots!!

        Jesus fucking christ just saying what my experience was and you shit on it like I’m some blood-soaked child murderer back to steal your catalytic converter.

      • Eranziel@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        100%. Unit conversion is a solved problem, and it is impossible for an AI to be faster or more accurate than any of the existing converters.

        I do not need an AI calculator, because I have no desire to need to double check my calculator.