AI is a dangerous tool which gives wrong answers and bad output.

I think for myself.

I don't particularly trust AI for most things, but I did give it a whirl on some software I was writing, just as a test.

It did a very good job on some Python message parsing stuff -- way cleaner code than I would have written in any reasonable length of time. It made very good use of libraries and the code it generated was pretty much flawless.

Then I asked to write some real-time communication stuff. The result was horrible. I tried several times to convince it that its architecture was flawed. It would agree, and then dream up some equally bad, or even worse, alternative. Seemed to have no grasp of race conditions, concurrency issues, etc. It didn't appear to understand what happens in an interrupt service routine at all. Sort of like a new grad who had never written real-time code before.

On the other hand, I made a typo in a time formatting string, which resulted in a whole lot of metadata getting logged that shouldn't have been. I looked at it a bunch and didn't see the issue so I asked the AI. After a couple of tries asking it what might be wrong, it asked me to show it my code and the data getting logged, whereupon it immediately said "Well, that should be a capital 'S', not a lower-case 's', you silly bugger". And, of course, it was absolutely right. Problem solved.

So I think it has a place in my world, at least for some engineering tasks. I can see it saving a fair bit of time on the right thing. But I'm not afraid of losing my job to it any time soon.


P.S. It's also decent at answering questions like "How do I do [such and such] in [some program or other]." It's surprisingly good (at least to me) at guiding me through the UI on some development tools to find the setting or tool I need. And it has yet to tell me to "RTFM" -- which is certainly a point in its favor.

If you mean stuff like Chatgpt and other tools that were created to simulate a human, very little. I don't trust it. To me, it's a tool to collect information about people's lives and behavioural patterns. Basically the next step from social media. I'm so glad it didn't come out when I was a teenager or in my early 20s because it could have collected some juicy topics from me. 😆

But of course, it's great for searching sources and doing mundane repetitive tasks you want to automatize.
My fav tools are image background removing and improved content-aware fill that I know from Photoshop.

I use it on daily basis, mostly for data analysis, which is not open to "guessing". It's a major time saver.

It helps me with information. AI can really help us if we can use it right. Just like what the internet has done.

I talk to ChatGPT on occasion. I also sometimes use it as a second pair of eyes on my own code when I'm banging my head against the wall on something. I'm very interested in the agentic/reasoning aspect of it and how that will end up.

AI doesn't bother me at all. I just have no legit use for it currently. With the exception of telling Alexa to play my Spotify playlist.

I suppose it could help, but I prefer to think on my own.

I'm a hater who uses AI every single day. It's definitely a love-hate thing. 🤷‍♀

Never knowingly

I use it for work

I actually haven't yet. I've had dumb conversations with AI just messing with it as a joke but I've still never used it for anything

My intelligence is all-natural.

AI isnf really "intelligent". t is a large language model. it can only do what has been fed into it
and it will mindlessly repeat variation on what it is told.it does not think it only responds

ChatGPT updates to 5 today. August 8

Only when I use google but I don’t have a choice