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I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

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Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

#31
Once every 36 seconds? Even for simple transcription, that seems insane. This reads like the hustle culture memes...

    2:00am wake up
    2:05am cold shower
    2:15am breakfast: almonds, breast milk bought off facebook, 50mg adderal
    2:30am begin transcribing thoughts into the machine

Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

#34

Perplexity has replaced Google Search for me in recent days. Not even comparable.

I've been thinking that a lot lately - LLMs are really nice search engines, which is great, that's a product everyone needs.

Before Google, information is hard to find. After Google, websites are incentivized to bury information behind ads and bullshit. After LLMs, the information is juiced out like lemonade.

I wonder what the next step in the incentive landscape is?

Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

#35

You have no idea how many times you use it. Maps? Recommendation systems (the algo)? Other optimizations? BTW, to the best of my knowledge, dictation still has a high error rate.

I used to work correcting AI transcriptions.

There is only so much AI can do because it currently lacks in certain domain knowledge.

The worst one I ever had to fix was ESPN captions of commentary for some indoor motorcross thing with dirt bikes going around a track. First, the motorbike noise, but secondly, the commentators were using the (well known to fans) nicknames for all the riders, which the AI had no idea how to transcribe, no idea who they were, and were almost impossible for me to even Google.

Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

#37

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I think it's a losing game to fight it. I've embraced it. I don't know where this will end, but we can probably guess.

I certainly use AI all throughout the day as a force multiplier for almost any computer-related task I do. I probably ask 100 questions a day to LLMs.

Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

#40

Once every 36 seconds? Even for simple transcription, that seems insane. This reads like the hustle culture memes... 2:00am wake up 2:05am cold shower 2:15am breakfast: almonds, breast milk bought off facebook, 50mg adderal 2:30am begin transcribing thoughts into the machine

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