I find it very frustrating that the only opinions people seem to be able to have about AI are:
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I find it very frustrating that the only opinions people seem to be able to have about AI are:
A/ it's the next coming of Christ, just deploy it everywhere, and if it has any issues those will be fixed with the next update anyway
B/ it's completely useless, has never and will never do anything useful and it's all just a scam by tech bros who are too dumb to realize that it's useless
I think that the polarization is primarily because of the two camps being very vocal, while most users simply use it and gets on with their day.
I've got a local Ollama-installation running gpt-oss and mistral, and I generally use them as a souped-up search engine when I need to fetch and organise information from many sources - that saves me a lot of time, compared to doing the searches myself.
Speaking with other people in my professional orbit, that seems to be a common use, together with things like comparing business offers with what has been requested - did we remember everything they asked for, and did we format things in a easily read, informative way, e.g.
I can easily see the problems with AI being used to generate art or work that mimics the work of others, but I acknowledge that it is going to be hard to setup a legal framework that can stop this. Training AI models on things that are on the internet is basically using the open nature of the internet to your advantage, and I really have no idea about how to prevent that.
