Extent. The word you're looking for is extent. Sorry. Word nerd.
That was mean. I'm sorry... But the point stands.
Ask HN: To what extend have you stopped or limited your use of AI?
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#13I personally do not use LLMs (knowingly) at all, largely for environmental reasons. The improvements are, to me, not worth the attrocious energy use. I will happily pay 20% or whatever more in both money and time. I also have no interest in technology that impedes my skill development. I do not want to use anything that makes me a worse writer over time. YMMV, I am answering the OP not evangelizing. Counter arguments…
> YMMV, I am answering the OP not evangelizing. Counter arguments will be ignored.
Reminds me of the Monty Python Arguing sketch.
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#14Haven't tried it yet. I hear it's having some impact!
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#15I haven't limited my AI use. In fact, it has increased. It still feels experimental, and I often use it even when it does not save time, simply to avoid effortful thinking. That concerns me.
I believe we are heading toward a world where AI offers easy mental shortcuts for nearly everything, similar to how cheap carbs became widespread in our diets. I do not yet know how I will deal with that. For now, I am just a kid in a candy store, enjoying the novelty.
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#16I haven’t stopped using AI, but I use it less than I did a few months ago. Now I mostly turn to it when I’m stuck or need inspiration. Using it less actually made me more efficient.
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#17Extent. The word you're looking for is extent. Sorry. Word nerd.
I've been reading John Evelyn's diary, among others from the 17th century. There is absolutely no sense there is a correct spelling of a word, as writing is correctly seen as speaking written down. Correct spelling is a modern invention of limited value (but helpful for AI).
Re: Ask HN: To what extend have you stopped or limited your use of AI?
#18Extent. The word you're looking for is extent. Sorry. Word nerd.
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#19Not at all. I'm an attorney. Fast law is bad law. If you're using LLMs (stop calling it AI ffs -- only morons parrot the marketing hype) to do law, you're just asking toget slapped sooner or later. Like the moron that is My Pillow Mike Lindell's lawyer. See here: https://ia801706.us.archive.org/34/items/gov.uscourts.cod.21...
> LLMs (stop calling it AI ffs -- only morons parrot the marketing hype)
Researchers have called much less intelligent things AI since 1956.
Before there were GPTs, there were RNNs and CNNs. AI is the field of study.
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#20I don't use AI at all, primarily because I believe its harmful and I am quite mindful of things.
I've observed colleagues who have used it extensively, I've often been a late adopter for things that carry unspecified risk; and AI was already on par with Pandora's box in my estimation when the weights were first released; I am usually perceptually pretty far ahead of the curve naturally (and accurately so).
Objectively, I've found these colleagues attitude, mental alacrity, work product, and abstract reasoning skills have degraded significantly in reference to their prior work pre-AI. They tried harder, got more actual work done, and were able to converse easily and quickly before. Now its, let me get back to you; and you get emails which have been quite clearly put through an LLM, with no real reasoning happening.
What is worse, is its happened in ways they largely do not notice, and when objective observations are pointed out, they don't take kindly to the feedback despite it not being an issue with them, but with their AI use, and the perceptual blindspots it takes advantage of. Many seem to be adopting destructive behaviors common to junkies, who have addiction problems.
I think given sufficient time, this trend will be recognized; but not before it causes significant adverse effects.