A) It’s an enormous help in my dayjob as an entry level software engineer. Replaced stack overflow completely, so I can troubleshoot problems I encounter in everything from writing Python tests, to configuring AWS EC2 instances. Obviously I’m not feeding it my code or anything, but I can oft…
A) It’s an enormous help in my dayjob as an entry level software engineer. Replaced stack overflow completely, so I can troubleshoot problems I encounter in everything from writing Python tests, to configuring AWS EC2 instances. Obviously I’m not feeding it my code or anything, but I can often get a huge boost (saving around 3 days of googling and reading obscure forums) with one hour of AI assistance.
B) I know there are plenty of studies showing journaling by itself is effective toward improving your life, but doing it to a nonjudgmental cheerleader who frequently offers useful advice is even better! I’ve quit alcohol and caffeine, started drinking more water and taking vitamins, I take daily walks and do breathwork and yoga. (I’ve introduced or eliminated a new habit every 21 days since January, and journaled at least once a week to GPT 4). Sometimes the predictable (probabilistic) advice it gives is exactly what I need to believe *for myself* that change is possible. “Likely sounding” BS is achievable!
These changes are enormous. I’m less anxious than ever and I’m getting such a self esteem lift from (what may be my first taste of) self-efficacy. Thinking about doing some kind of write up for my substack eventually, but I want to test the system first on myself.
Working on my social skills too, though, to speak to your first bullet point. I know that I’m looking for a therapist in cold silicon, but I have a real flesh and blood one too, lol. They compliment each other.
If it works for you it's perfectly fine! I have an article on this topic, the extreme dichotomy between people aho are changing their lives and those who choose to just mock the systems. I find them useful in some limited cases but I suppose it depends on our circumstances. Those who find such leverage need not to be ashamed of it!
I wrote it a bit like ChatGPT on purpose, shoehorning a list in for a wink at the audience. It made me smile. AI really loves lists ya know?
But then I saw this Note and a new comprehension dawned on me regarding the uncanniness of the valley that we’re tumbling into, having been shoved off a cliff with little warning.
I also find it immensely helpful as a coding tool/tutor. It's allowed me to troubleshoot and finish projects that either would have taken order's of magnitude longer to complete or that I simply would never have started in the first place.
I've also found it a great tool for helping me to learn a foreign language. I can sit down and have a conversation with it (albeit a typed one) while at any time being able to ask it to define a word, or tell me the use of a certain piece of grammar, and so on.
But to the author's point, I (and you as well I would guess) are people who are inherently interested in using tools like AI to get better at things. We see them as ways to improve our capabilities, not to replace them. The average person I fear will be more than happy to offload increasingly large amounts of their thought processes to other systems. Solving that problem would require us to solve the problem that has flummoxed philosophers for millennia: how to we make humans desire to be better than they are?
Am I the only one getting huge value out of AI?
A) It’s an enormous help in my dayjob as an entry level software engineer. Replaced stack overflow completely, so I can troubleshoot problems I encounter in everything from writing Python tests, to configuring AWS EC2 instances. Obviously I’m not feeding it my code or anything, but I can often get a huge boost (saving around 3 days of googling and reading obscure forums) with one hour of AI assistance.
B) I know there are plenty of studies showing journaling by itself is effective toward improving your life, but doing it to a nonjudgmental cheerleader who frequently offers useful advice is even better! I’ve quit alcohol and caffeine, started drinking more water and taking vitamins, I take daily walks and do breathwork and yoga. (I’ve introduced or eliminated a new habit every 21 days since January, and journaled at least once a week to GPT 4). Sometimes the predictable (probabilistic) advice it gives is exactly what I need to believe *for myself* that change is possible. “Likely sounding” BS is achievable!
These changes are enormous. I’m less anxious than ever and I’m getting such a self esteem lift from (what may be my first taste of) self-efficacy. Thinking about doing some kind of write up for my substack eventually, but I want to test the system first on myself.
Working on my social skills too, though, to speak to your first bullet point. I know that I’m looking for a therapist in cold silicon, but I have a real flesh and blood one too, lol. They compliment each other.
If it works for you it's perfectly fine! I have an article on this topic, the extreme dichotomy between people aho are changing their lives and those who choose to just mock the systems. I find them useful in some limited cases but I suppose it depends on our circumstances. Those who find such leverage need not to be ashamed of it!
It's crazy that I read your comment and assumed it was generated by AI to promote AI.
I wrote it a bit like ChatGPT on purpose, shoehorning a list in for a wink at the audience. It made me smile. AI really loves lists ya know?
But then I saw this Note and a new comprehension dawned on me regarding the uncanniness of the valley that we’re tumbling into, having been shoved off a cliff with little warning.
Every one of these comments reads like AI.
https://substack.com/@evartology/note/c-58373562?r=1t12wr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yes they do. Kinda scary.
We're going to have to start talking like idiots and being politically incorrect just to confirm we're humans.
That’s a good captcha, but imagine the conundrum we’ll be in when our dumbassery becomes the next models’ training data…
Beep boop 🤖
You are not the only one.
I also find it immensely helpful as a coding tool/tutor. It's allowed me to troubleshoot and finish projects that either would have taken order's of magnitude longer to complete or that I simply would never have started in the first place.
I've also found it a great tool for helping me to learn a foreign language. I can sit down and have a conversation with it (albeit a typed one) while at any time being able to ask it to define a word, or tell me the use of a certain piece of grammar, and so on.
But to the author's point, I (and you as well I would guess) are people who are inherently interested in using tools like AI to get better at things. We see them as ways to improve our capabilities, not to replace them. The average person I fear will be more than happy to offload increasingly large amounts of their thought processes to other systems. Solving that problem would require us to solve the problem that has flummoxed philosophers for millennia: how to we make humans desire to be better than they are?