I think this is the right idea, but the wrong approach.
It's great to have AI as an optional tool to use. It's great at distilling a quick summary of what the Internet says. Basically a google search on steroids - well, a google search before google purposely fucked up google searches. Still, google searches were great for getting a quick initial sense about a topic, but it shouldn't be used in a vacuum for decision making.
The problem is too many companies want to use it to eliminate people or to make decisions in a vacuum and without being transparent about it.
AI would allow an idiot like me with a horrible math background to do engineering. I've been told by engineers I have an engineering mind....I see math in my head but can't do it on paper. (Thanks public schooling)
These companies trying to replace people with AI are going to wind up broke. AI fails in creativity which will stifle innovation. AI will never replace someone like Tesla. You need people to be able to think outside the box. You're 100% right, AI is nothing but Google and a calculator on steroids. This is just NY being NY.
Exactly. AI is helpful, but at the same time it basically ruins one of the core enjoyments of anyone creative, which is the struggle. Many programmers are speaking out about how they feel burnt out from using AI, that the journey is just as enjoyable as the destination. AI on its own is not creative, it's never going to be on the same level as a human.
Well, if you do a google search, each ai paragraph or chunk of text has little citation links so you can reference all the sites you want.
Brave's ai search does the same thing.
When I ask Grok something it gives the references - and they are real. I haven't had a fake one yet.
As for the medical stuff... I have used it extensively during my VA disability claim and the C&P exams they've sent me to (VA sends you to either civilian hospitals or to a contracted doctor depending on what they want to test). Example - I fed Grok results for my MRIs, CTs, and XRays and asked it to explain it to me in a way that I could question the Neurologist when I went in for my appointment after the tests. I didn't tell the Doc that I used AI, but he was surprised I was asking him the questions.
I also asked him to schedule me for an EMG because of the nerve damage I knew I had, and saw in the results from the tests (that Grok translated for me). He did and it showed radiculopathy in 4 nerves in my legs. That doubled my disability percentage. Unfortunately he didn't order the EMG for my neck and back - just my legs - so I have to get the neck and back done now.
So - I didn't use Grok to self-treat. I used it to help me understand what the reporting Docs and Radiologists said, and it helped me to ask intelligent questions and get the test (one of them anyway) I needed. It probably saved me a month or 2 of their normal procedure of pain relief or numbing shots, and physical therapy - neither of which would've done anything for me.
I think this is the right idea, but the wrong approach.
It's great to have AI as an optional tool to use. It's great at distilling a quick summary of what the Internet says. Basically a google search on steroids - well, a google search before google purposely fucked up google searches. Still, google searches were great for getting a quick initial sense about a topic, but it shouldn't be used in a vacuum for decision making.
The problem is too many companies want to use it to eliminate people or to make decisions in a vacuum and without being transparent about it.
AI would allow an idiot like me with a horrible math background to do engineering. I've been told by engineers I have an engineering mind....I see math in my head but can't do it on paper. (Thanks public schooling)
These companies trying to replace people with AI are going to wind up broke. AI fails in creativity which will stifle innovation. AI will never replace someone like Tesla. You need people to be able to think outside the box. You're 100% right, AI is nothing but Google and a calculator on steroids. This is just NY being NY.
Exactly. AI is helpful, but at the same time it basically ruins one of the core enjoyments of anyone creative, which is the struggle. Many programmers are speaking out about how they feel burnt out from using AI, that the journey is just as enjoyable as the destination. AI on its own is not creative, it's never going to be on the same level as a human.
What if they made AI provide references so we could do our own research?
Well, if you do a google search, each ai paragraph or chunk of text has little citation links so you can reference all the sites you want. Brave's ai search does the same thing.
When I ask Grok something it gives the references - and they are real. I haven't had a fake one yet.
As for the medical stuff... I have used it extensively during my VA disability claim and the C&P exams they've sent me to (VA sends you to either civilian hospitals or to a contracted doctor depending on what they want to test). Example - I fed Grok results for my MRIs, CTs, and XRays and asked it to explain it to me in a way that I could question the Neurologist when I went in for my appointment after the tests. I didn't tell the Doc that I used AI, but he was surprised I was asking him the questions.
I also asked him to schedule me for an EMG because of the nerve damage I knew I had, and saw in the results from the tests (that Grok translated for me). He did and it showed radiculopathy in 4 nerves in my legs. That doubled my disability percentage. Unfortunately he didn't order the EMG for my neck and back - just my legs - so I have to get the neck and back done now.
So - I didn't use Grok to self-treat. I used it to help me understand what the reporting Docs and Radiologists said, and it helped me to ask intelligent questions and get the test (one of them anyway) I needed. It probably saved me a month or 2 of their normal procedure of pain relief or numbing shots, and physical therapy - neither of which would've done anything for me.
I didn't know that you could load images into grok.
Images, text files, cut/paste - all kinds of stuff.
Because It Makes Up References, Too, and we should all be aware of that
If you can do your own research, what do you need AI for? (You don't)
Oh really?
It sounds like a democrat!