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Screenshot of a Mastodon post by Kevin Beaumont: “Generative Al government lobbying.”
Photo of AI/tech company CEO’s, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.
Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.
I suspect a large chunk of people in denial have either never used it and are basing their judgment on memes and cherry-picked failure modes that go viral, or have only used the earlier/weaker models that are far more prone to hallucination. I use ChatGPT Plus regularly, and find it occasionally imperfect but still very useful, but a few times I’ve tried using it while logged out and the free model it defaults to was far more flawed. Probably why OpenAI built GPT5 around a marginally better but far more efficient model that they can roll out to everyone (including the large cohort of free users).
Well personally I have used it but I can’t really find anything useful for it to do. It’s very mathematics and programming orientated which is useful if your job involves a lot of mathematics or programming. If not erh, it’s basically just an interesting toy.
It’s bloody rubbish at civil engineering I’ll tell you that.
Why anyone thinks using a Large Language Model can do anything involving math is beyond me.
It is like using a calculator to write a book because it can spell 80085.
Use it for documentation, not for coding, maths, or engineering.