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> AI in its current form has limited usefulness for most people. That's not what I'm seeing. My mom always wanted Google to just answer questions, and now Chat
by browsingonly 3mo ago
> AI in its current form has limited usefulness for most people.
That's not what I'm seeing. My mom always wanted Google to just answer questions, and now ChatGPT can. She uses it enough in her daily life that she bought a subscription.
Yes, she knows it hallucinates and you have to double check everything, but so far she finds a ton of use for it even with those caveats.
Now, I agree that a personal servant robot would get a ton of business. Even at new-car prices, it's still cheaper than a human caretaker/maid/butler/etc. And the maid usually doesn't also mow the lawn on a hot day, while a robot would potentially do all kinds of different things without complaint.
- Benlovescnn 3mo agoYou're honestly comparing a computer that can poorly answer questions to a fully functioning robot that does chores?
- szundi 3mo ago[dead]
- temecula 3mo ago[dead]
- iammjm 3mo agoWell, one of those is already a reality in each persons pocket, and the other is a vision needing a lot of money and effort to implement at all
- Benlovescnn 3mo ago[flagged]
- fullstop 3mo agoI have a feeling that humanoid robots will have other, more intimate, tasks first. Our most primal drives seem to drive the advancement of technology. Also, mowing the lawn on a very hot day is pretty bad for the grass.
- calebio 3mo ago> That's not what I'm seeing. My mom always wanted Google to just answer questions, and now ChatGPT can. She uses it enough in her daily life that she bought a subscription. Reminds me a lot of AskJeeves :)
- bluealienpie 3mo agoGoogle summaries from websites mainly did this before “AI” came around. Now I just don’t know the source unless I dig myself. Would rather it went back to before, or at least they implemented the veracity checks better. I thought it was interested that the movie looper had argidrones, but what inspired that wasn’t part of the training set or discussion online. I get remarkably bad answers and search results which seem misleading at best.
- metabagel 3mo ago> Now I just don’t know the source unless I dig myself. Claude includes links to references.
- tmp10423288442 3mo agoSo does ChatGPT. The hallucination problem is not completely solved, but much better than a few years ago, especially if you use reasoning mode, where it’s more likely to spontaneously do a web search
- foresterre 3mo agoWhat's a problem though is that while it includes a reference, its distillation from the source, or worse, from the combination of sources, is often plain wrong. I check them regularly, and it made me very distrustful of Claude's capacity to faithfully summarise or explain from a source. When asked to give specific links, it's usually even worse.
- 40four 3mo agoI don’t disagree. Many times when I’ve checked the source links a language model provides, I get concerned. It’s definitely important to stay vigilant and exercise critical thinking, but the model’s ability to synthesize information and converse with it in natural language still blows my mind sometimes
- spockz 3mo agoWe already have robot grass trimmers and they work pretty well. Why would you want a crude, inefficient, facsimile of a human push or power an inefficient form of mowing the lawn?
- mastazi 3mo agoCameras worked pretty well, but most people take photos with their phones nowadays. Pro photographers still mostly use cameras though. I can envision a future where people have a humanoid trimming a small backyard but at the same time the maintenance of e.g. a golf course would be done by dedicated robots. EDIT: my point is that just like smartphones replaced a number of specialised devices for most people, a humanoid robot could do the same, by virtue of being a general purpose machine
- lobocinza 3mo agoFor when they don't work pretty well and for a thousand other things besides trimming grasss.
- prepend 3mo agoI don’t want a crude facsimile. I want a pretty good facsimile that can cook, clean, mow, carry stuff around the yard. I want this much more than a robot lawnmower + robot vaccuum + plus other single purpose automatons.
- emmelaich 3mo agoBecause houses and tools are made for humans.
- toasterlovin 3mo agoFWIW, Google does just answer questions now.
- prepend 3mo agoI think more non-tech workers are buying subscriptions than people in industry. Neither I not almost all coworkers I know do not pay for AI subscriptions (or companies do). But quite a few people’s sisters and parents and friends are paying $20-200/month for ai to help them with their “projects.” Whatever that means.