Honestly, if that is your impression, I think you’re using it wrong and expecting the wrong results from it.

I use it for little Python projects where it’s really really useful.

I’ve used it for linux problems where it gave me the solution to problems that I had not been able to solve with a Google search alone.

I use it as a kickstarter for writing texts by telling it roughly what my text needs to be, then tweaking the result it gives me. Sometimes I just use the first sentence but it’s enough to give me a starting point to make life easer.

I use it when I need to understand texts about a topic I’m not familiar with. It can usually give me an idea of what the terminology means and how things are connected which helps a lot for further research on the topic and ultimately undestanding the text.

I use it for everyday problems like when I needed a new tube for my bike but wasn’t sure what size it was so I told it what was written on the tyre and showed it a picture of the tube packaging while I was in the shop and asked it if it was the right one. It could tell my that it is the correct one and why. The explanation was easy to fact-check.

I use Photoshop AI a lot to remove unwanted parts in photos I took or to expand photos where I’m not happy with the crop.

Honestly, I absolutely love the new AI tools and I think people here are way too negative about it in general.

Where do you get paid for your lunch hour? I’m in Germany and while work life balance is certainly a thing here, more so than in the US, a paid lunch break is something I have never heard about.

Die Argumentation von Merz kannst du hoffentlich nicht ernst nehmen. Wenn man jede männliche Fehlbesetzung von Ministerposten so behandeln würde, dürfte man eigentlich nur noch Frauen an den Job lassen.

My Ampler E-Bike I bought 2 years ago. More than 5000 km later I still love it to bits.

Not sure if that counts as technology, but simple LED lights over my kitchen counter (mounted under the upper cabinets) were a pretty inexpensive purchase that made my life significantly better. I don’t understand now how I was ever able to cook with just the ceiling lights on, it’s absolutely terrible.

I have a foldable phone that also has a very slightly curved front screen (Honor Magic V2). It’s perfect. You can barely see the curve, no weird reflections, it just feels very good in the hand, there are no sharp edges at all. Feels very smooth and nice to hold and use.

based on weighted averages of ‘what people are saying’ with a little randomization to spice things up

That is massively oversimplified and not really how neural networks work. Training a neural network is not just calculating averages. It adjusts a very complex network of nodes in such a way that certain input generates certain output. It is entirely possible that during that training process, abstract mechanisms like logic get trained into the system as well, because a good NN can produce meaningful output even on input that is unlike anything it has ever seen before. Arguably that is the case with ChatGPT as well. It has been proven to be able to solve maths/calculating tasks it has never seen before in its training data. Give it a poem that you wrote yourself and have it write an analysis and interpretation - it will do it and it will probably be very good. I really don’t subscribe to this “statistical parrot” narrative that many people seem to believe. Just because it’s not good at the same tasks that humans are good at doesn’t mean it’s not intelligent. Of course it is different from a human brain, so differences in capabilities are to be expected. It has no idea of the physical world, it is not trained to tell truth from lies. Of course it’s not good at these things. That doesn’t mean it’s crap or “not intelligent”. You don’t call a person “not intelligent” just because they’re bad at specific tasks or don’t know some facts. There’s certainly room for improvement with these LLMs, but they’ve only been around in a really usable state for like 2 years or so. Have some patience and in the meantime use it for all the wonderful stuff it’s capable of.

I disagree, at least as someone who knows some Python but isn’t a pro programmer, ChatGPT saves me tons of time when writing little scripts. I used it to write a little tool with a GUI that I now use all the time in like 3 hours which would have taken me days without ChatGPT.

Oh no, proice inflietion.

Ja, es ist schon deutlich besser als vor ein paar Jahren. Hat aber noch Luft nach oben. ;)

Ja, sinnlose neue Features können sie ganz gut. Uralte Bugs fixen und grundlegende Funktionen ermöglichen nicht so sehr…

Ja doch, das geht. Nutze mittlerweile Telegram und Signal parallel weil einige Kontakte noch nur bei Telegram sind. Im Prinzip kann man alles mit beidem machen, aber Signal hat halt so ein paar Einschränkungen, bei denen man sich fragt, was die eigentlich rauchen, dass die das nach Jahren immer noch nicht gefixt haben.

Was meinst du mit zwei Sessions? Signal synchron auf Smartphone und PC geht auf jeden Fall. Funktioniert aber nur gut wenn du es am PC auch regelmäßig nutzt bzw laufen hast, weil es sonst immer ewig Nachrichten vom Smartphone nachladen muss.

Und beide Clients, Smartphone und Desktop, sind halt meilenweit schlechter als Telegram. Aber man gewöhnt sich dran…

Während ich dir grundsätzlich zustimme, wird die Sache leider schwierig, wenn man offizielle Texte oder Publikationen verfassen muss. Da wird dann jede Entscheidung für oder gegen das Gendern direkt zu einer Grundsatzfrage, mit der alle am Text Beteiligten irgendwie leben können müssen. Das ist gar nicht so einfach. Meist kommt eine Beidnennung als Kompromiss aber durch, manchmal auch Partizipform.

Das heißt, du benutzt dann das generische Maskulinum?

Bin in der Situation. Müsste wahrscheinlich 3k€ einplanen und ich hasse Autos wie die Pest, würde es nur aus rein pragmatischen Gründen machen, würde auch nicht mal eins besitzen und wahrscheinlich maximal 3x im Jahr eins leihen. Das steht einfach in keinem Verhältnis.

Kann man auch mehrmals machen. Kann ja auch je nach Therapeut:in sehr unterschiedlich sein.

Brudi, ich mein das null böse, aber bitte zieh mal in Erwägung, mit einem Therapeuten zu sprechen. Es scheint dir wirklich nicht gut zu gehen und genau für solche Zustände sind die da.