Has Ai changed your life at all?

[Bretrick]

Have you even used Ai? Do you find it advantageous or not?
Every time I search something on the net, Ai response is always at the top of the page. I bypass it and scroll down.
I do my best to avoid it at all costs.
Do not really know why I am like this, but I just think that Ai is going to have more negatives on society than positives.

 

[IrishEyes]

I know how you feel, I get hesitant to search anything, I think I have pretty good
common sense so if what I am reading seems to be pushing me to think differently
(like adding guiding words, adjectives that aren't necessary or too much details on
something) I back right out.
If I have a question I just want the facts plain and simple.

 

[CaliS]

I play around with it a bit, mostly with recipes. I tell it the ingredients, servings desired - and it will produce a recipe and a shopping list, if I want.

I have asked it retirement questions about social security etc., but I know it can be wrong - so I don't depend on it.

I understand it may have a negative impact on society and the environment, but it's there and I am the curious sort.

 

[Nathan]

Google Search has a built in AI feature, gives quite in depth search results. It is great for technical questions, gives detailed information related to the search query.

 

[astralcat]

I disabled my AI on the net. I can still think for myself and have good research skills.

 

[hollydolly]

Well I use AI every single day when I talk to my Google nest hub... and my Amazon Echo ( Alexa)....

 

[SeaBreeze]

Have you even used Ai? Do you find it advantageous or not?
Every time I search something on the net, Ai response is always at the top of the page. I bypass it and scroll down.
I do my best to avoid it at all costs.
Do not really know why I am like this, but I just think that Ai is going to have more negatives on society than positives.

I feel the same as you do. I tried to remove Copilot from my computer, as I never agreed to install it, but I guess Microsoft took over.

I do read the top search result, but I don't go any deeper. I don't trust the AI, I don't need a robot friend that is likely saving and sharing anything I would say to it.

I can't believe some people are having romantic relationships with the bots. Humanity is in trouble, people don't talk with each other anymore, not even online, they choose a bot who always agrees with them.

I think there will be more cons than pros with artificial 'intelligence'.

 

[Sunkist]

I feel the same as you do. I tried to remove Copilot from my computer, as I never agreed to install it, but I guess Microsoft took over.

I do read the top search result, but I don't go any deeper. I don't trust the AI, I don't need a robot friend that is likely saving and sharing anything I would say to it.

I can't believe some people are having romantic relationships with the bots. Humanity is in trouble, people don't talk with each other anymore, not even online, they choose a bot who always agrees with them.

I think there will be more cons than pros with artificial 'intelligence'.

I couldn't get rid of Copilot either. "Uninstalled" it, but it's still there.

 

[DebraMae]

I am enjoying it. I can ask Google some pretty convoluted questions and it understands and answers accordingly.

 

[SeaBreeze]

I couldn't get rid of Copilot either. "Uninstalled" it, but it's still there.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about having these things forced on me. Years back I disabled Cortana that was on my taskbar asking me what I wanted her to help me with.....answer, nothing.

I'm not big on technology and don't want any of those smart devices in my house that people talk to and ask questions of, or have them turn on your lights. If it makes them happy, I guess. Perhaps if you have some disabilities they might be useful.

 

[outlander]

It changed how I used the internet. Now I am much less likely to waste time online which makes me more productive

 

[retiredtraveler]

I use CoPilot (AI) primarily for trip planning along with the 'standard' travel websites. I often get more detail on hikes than articles or books or websites like AllTrails provide. Otherwise, not much.

 

[Tommy]

Not that I'm aware of. I view "artificial intelligence" as just a kitschy fad term for another type of computer programming.

 

[seadoug]

I use it, but by default. It seems these days when I do a Google search, the "AI" answer is the one that first appears but it does allow me to scroll down and look at the sources. I would rather trust the original sources than the overview.

 

[Michael Z]

I make use of AI Assist on DuckDuckGo on a regular basis. They always list the sources, which is good.

 

[Bretrick]

I feel the same as you do. I tried to remove Copilot from my computer, as I never agreed to install it, but I guess Microsoft took over.

I do read the top search result, but I don't go any deeper. I don't trust the AI, I don't need a robot friend that is likely saving and sharing anything I would say to it.

I can't believe some people are having romantic relationships with the bots. Humanity is in trouble, people don't talk with each other anymore, not even online, they choose a bot who always agrees with them.

I think there will be more cons than pros with artificial 'intelligence'.

We are heading down a blind path, not knowing what is at the other end.

 

[Sunkist]

Like anything- especially anything scientific- it can be used for good, or for bad/evil.. I don't think it's going to be much of the former

 

[Coco]

I honestly have no clue if I'm using it or not? I also use Duck, Duck Go to browse and search. How do I know AL is in the picture?

Our son gave us his Alexa, if he's at our house visiting, he asks her a question, she calls him by name but she isn't as friendly to us! She doesn't even know our names. Neither does AL.

 

[Sunkist]

I honestly have no clue if I'm using it or not? I also use Duck, Duck Go to browse and search. How do I know AL is in the picture?

Our son gave us his Alexa, if he's at our house visiting, he asks her a question, she calls him by name but she isn't as friendly to us! She doesn't even know our names. Neither does AL.

Creepy, isn't it?

 

[Jeni]

It is work computer often makes email suggestions that are insane. makes zero sense.
If I sent one of their suggestions my boss would think I am drinking on the job. When I search for things, I am not impressed with results or answers always scroll past AI answer. gives the most generic answer without much detail in my attempts.
I see no current use for me in it maybe someday

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Sometimes I use chat GBT. I like how it answers my questions. It’s even made up poems about my dogs for me. I’m surprised with how fast it works. Generally speaking I like it. I don’t use Alexa though.

 

[Sunkist]

And accuracy isn't its strong point, either. If you guys recall the 'stunning man' thread from yesterday, I ran the photo through and it said the picture was a specific person (can't place name, never heard of him). Members remarked that it was not him. So I ran photo through again, and it gave a different name. I just tried for the third time, and AI is claiming it is someone else entirely. So I guess it's big on the 'artificial' part and not so much on the 'intelligence' part..

 

[David777]

I don't have any of those AI talking toys, and have disabled the mic input on my Pixel as am an old, very skilled command line user. With either Google or Yahoo search, the new AI outputs to my search inputs, vastly improve my ability to quickly drill down to results and information.

Unlike average persons, I have a long hi tech background and have been a life long, general science enthusiast for which AI can be immediately put to valuable use versus those that just think it is cute some AI speaker when asked what the weather today will be like in their town or what actress plays the character Barbara in some Hollywood movie they are TV watching. I also don't have such a lack of education and knowledge, that I need to be too suspicious of AI outputs.

This week had to process 17 GoPro-11 skiing videos I'd captured a week ago resort skiing 3 days about Lake Tahoe. Right out of the device, the file sizes are huge. A 10 minute long video was 3.7 gigabytes. After processing, trimming and cutting out unusable parts of tracks like when I was stopped breathing hard and not skiing for a couple minutes, and applying an efficient CODEC to for compression, the resulting file was just 60 megabytes, a 61.7 times file size reduction. The original 48 GB of original native files were reduced to just 3.5 GB after which I deleted all the original GoPro camera files, as I don't want to run out of desktop storage memory quickly.

The video editing program I have been using and was familiar with over the last few years, Adobe Premiere Elements, is no longer available for free and rather requires a monthly Adobe subscription I won't pay for given solid freeware. So I went online and asked questions like "free consumer level video editing program" that led me quickly to good review sites whereupon I decided on the shotcut app, so downloaded that. Shotcut has an online 400 page user manual that takes time to drill down to information.

At first from YouTube (non-AI) web search hits on how to use shotcut in various ways, I used YouTube search hits to figure out use, however that wasted a lot of my time due to mediocre information resulting in having to reprocess my first 3 files multiple times before getting intended output. Lots of YouTube commercial channel users with poor teaching skills, trying to explain complex sequences.

Instead using Google AI searching outside of shotcut or Youtube, brought me to the correct information quickly within those apps and pointed me to a YouTube channel of someone presenting basic information well. I learned for using an uncommon Portrait orientation video, given Landscape is the default, that I needed to first in the main Settings, set up a Custom vertical Video Mode. Also that a new HEVC CODEC reduced file sizes several times more than the app's dated default compression CODEC.

I was annoyed when exporting a processed video, that there didn't seem to be any visual information in the window showing my computer was actively processing to create the MP4 output. So was wondering "Is it doing anything?" But with an AI search, immediately found that required opening up a non-default panel, Jobs, that might have taken a long time to discover.

When using complex applications like Excel, and using well-posed questions on formula syntax, it not only provides quick answers that could half taken me 10 or 20 minutes to previously figure out but also shows new ways I would have not even have looked for. I'm already a long time skilled Excel user, however Google AI is quickly providing ways to create formulas to perform operations I would never have even expected or looked for like for joining lines of copied in Internet website text and removing hanging spaces at line ends, using. =TEXTJOIN(CHAR(10), TRUE, TRIM(A1:A10))

 

[Aunt Bea]

IMO it’s better to become familiar with new technology than it is to ignore it.

I check the AI summary when I do a search and find it to be a helpful starting point.

For me, the key is to use AI and try not to let it use me.

“Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile,"
- The Borg

 

[Llynn]

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