How I used AI properly.

[Raynine]

The state of New Hampshire abolished motor vehicle ispections. Motor vehicle inspections in the state had given rise to a cottage industry of fraudulent information that vehicle safety in the state was enhanced by vehicle inspections. But states without vehicle inspections have no worse highway outcomes than those who do not. So, what was presented as a neccesity to safety was essentially a racket for businesses that profit from vehicle inspections. I was able to to use AI to indentify individuals that laid the groundwork for the scam. This was huge. So, AI worked well there.

But AI’s coin has two sides:

For the time being, I am finding AI or Chat GBT useful for research. It does what you would expect Google to do, but those with at least average intelligence know that Google is contaminated with politics. If I am persistent, I can get what I am looking for. AI tries to rewrite your observations, and you must guard against this. Really dumb people can submit something really dumb, and AI will turn the piece into something that looks like it came from a Phd. There are archives out there full of well written arguments that can be fished by illiterate individuals to make readers think they know what they are talking about. This is going to be especially problematic for colleges and universities that encouarge coherent writing. It is likely that written work will be submitted to websites that can identify plagerized reworked material.

One of the markers of the coming shift will be that individual writing style will disappear and all writing be so standardized that no will trust anything written. One of the major poblems in society today is that everything is seen as a lie. So, there are basically two kinds of people in the world, those see that everything is a lie and those who believe the lie. There can never be a meeting of the minds in world like this.

Do you recall when everyone could do math in their heads when you were in school? Then pocket calculators came along and no one could recall the steps neccessary to do real math. Now math and reading skills are approaching levels so low that they rival the country before World War One. Without extreme care, we could be going back to those days.

AI is a tool. Use it wisely.

 

[Woodznutz]

I sometimes use AI to confirm what I already know, or to confirm that AI is ignorant of what I know. That said AI stands ready to offer some really good knowledge. However, few are interested in that knowledge. So, the massive databases that gobble up vast areas of land, energy, water, and other resources are essentially a colossal waste as the human condition will not be improved by their existence. In fact, they will likely contribute to societal decline in every way.

 

[1srelluc]

I don't know....Thank god for Texas Instruments.

 

[Raynine]

Another of example:

This is not medical advice. This has been an especially cold and dry winter and my heels are develping painful cracks where they are wrinkled. I could have gone to a doctor, waited in line and paid him with expensive medical insurance. I went to Chat GBT and told it what I was doing to combat the cracks. I was soaking my feet in epsom salts and using O'Keefe's Healthy feet, wearing cotton socks to bed at night. AI told me to apply Vaseline on top of the O'Keefes. It made a real difference because it sealed the moisturizer in. I could have paid a doctor to tell me this but I did not. The cracks are going away and I can walk on the treadmill in the gym without pain.

 

[1srelluc]

Another of example:

wearing cotton socks to bed at night.

That right there was the best advice.....I always wear low-quarter socks.

 

[Darkwind]

The state of New Hampshire abolished motor vehicle ispections. Motor vehicle inspections in the state had given rise to a cottage industry of fraudulent information that vehicle safety in the state was enhanced by vehicle inspections. But states without vehicle inspections have no worse highway outcomes than those who do not. So, what was presented as a neccesity to safety was essentially a racket for businesses that profit from vehicle inspections. I was able to to use AI to indentify individuals that laid the groundwork for the scam. This was huge. So, AI worked well there.

But AI’s coin has two sides:

For the time being, I am finding AI or Chat GBT useful for research. It does what you would expect Google to do, but those with at least average intelligence know that Google is contaminated with politics. If I am persistent, I can get what I am looking for. AI tries to rewrite your observations, and you must guard against this. Really dumb people can submit something really dumb, and AI will turn the piece into something that looks like it came from a Phd. There are archives out there full of well written arguments that can be fished by illiterate individuals to make readers think they know what they are talking about. This is going to be especially problematic for colleges and universities that encouarge coherent writing. It is likely that written work will be submitted to websites that can identify plagerized reworked material.

One of the markers of the coming shift will be that individual writing style will disappear and all writing be so standardized that no will trust anything written. One of the major poblems in society today is that everything is seen as a lie. So, there are basically two kinds of people in the world, those see that everything is a lie and those who believe the lie. There can never be a meeting of the minds in world like this.

Do you recall when everyone could do math in their heads when you were in school? Then pocket calculators came along and no one could recall the steps neccessary to do real math. Now math and reading skills are approaching levels so low that they rival the country before World War One. Without extreme care, we could be going back to those days.

AI is a tool. Use it wisely.

Perplexity has a robust research feature that enables people to conduct thorough research, and it provides detailed lists of references used in replies.

Don't get me wrong. Perplexity, like many AIs, has a distinct left-leaning bias. But I've found that Perplexity is probably the least of them.

ChatGPT is not the best for research, but it does a passable job in web searching.

Where ChatGPT shines is its ability to tailor the information it uses to reply. If you need to repair a car but you're not certain of the specs and how to go about it, you can create a bot with a Chilton manual in the form of a PDF, along with any Master Mechanic guide for how to do auto work, again, in the form of a User Manual in PDF format.

You can then have conversations with these documents.

 

[Woodznutz]

That right there was the best advice.....I always wear low-quarter socks.

I do if my feet are cold, but I usually wind up taking them off as my feet get too hot.