I’ll get this right out of the way first and foremost: if you absolutely need to use ai, run it locally. If you are gpu poor, find a service that hosts models on someone else’s machine, like silly tavern, kobold, lama, or things like artbot if you want to Vincent Van Techbro.
So I’ve been dabbling in farting around with this job stealing, planet vaporizing, technology for a year now and boy are these things nothing but hot air. I’ve tried all the frontier models for daily search engine stuff, questions, advice on stupid stuff like what games to play or what comics to read. Grok, (gag me) Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, it’s all the same and it’s all shit.
Just yesterday ChatGPT gave me all the wrong issues of spider-man to read and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back and pissed me right off. Grok is just unhinged and wants to erp with you especially if you are a minor, Gemini is SORT OF okay, but that’s because they enshittified google search to make way for it. Claude is the most quirk chungus of the models, you can tell it was programmed to talk like a redditor or a discord moderator and that’s apparently the trick to fooling vc dipshit this is AGI.
Anywho these things are not worth it, but apparently capitalism has decided we are eternally 2 years away from agi so it’s full steam ahead of data centers shoved into the orifice of every closed down strip mall in the decaying rustbelt.
I very much doubt that it can be used for things other than software and perhaps physical simulation applications. In software, it either works or it doesn’t, and you can build it around working and optimizing certain metrics. Literally just optimization of automation. I can see it coming for alot of ME and data entry jobs.
Once you get out into the more vague aspects of engineering and social science, or even something as basic as factory management, the level and ability to do experimentation and replication studies plummets, which means the advice and solutions that it comes up with are going to be based entirely on what the user thinks work, or based on the ‘scientific consensus’ is. It is a much more difficult issue to tackle epistemologically, like, what is the best spice to add to broast chicken?
Not super complex, but i think it works well at topics pertaining to language and linguistics (which are closely related to software, computer science, and formal logic anyway)