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0 pointsschwartzworld7mo ago0 comments

It's bad at

- Actually knowing things / being correct - Creating anything original

It's good at

- Producing convincing output fast and cheap

There are lots of applications where correctness and originality matter less than "can I get convincing output fast and cheap". Other commenters have mentioned being able to vibe-code up a simple app, for example. I know an older man who is not great at writing in English (but otherwise very intelligent) who uses it for correspondence.

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const_cast7mo ago

Those applications are actually abysmally rare - it's just that we've created a society where businesses are just... allowed to externalize all costs.

Being wrong or lying is almost universally bad and unproductive. But making money has nothing to do with being productive - you can actively make the world worse and make money. Ask RJ Reynolds.

schwartzworldOP7mo ago

> Being wrong or lying is almost universally bad and unproductive

Sure, but there are cases where rightness isn’t a thing.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not an AI Stan, it has real problems, but it’s also not going anywhere. Eventually the bubble will pop and we’ll see which applications of AI turned out to be useful and which didn’t.

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