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Yeah because it was impossible to Google things in the past. Every time anybody comes up with a use for AI it's basically just automating something that isn't even that hard for you to do. If you want to automate simple tasks that's absolutely fine but it's not the second coming as people keep insisting.
Come back to me when an AI can actually add value to something, when it can do something that is not just automating a simple task, but it's capable of doing things that humans are not. I keep being told that we're only a few years away from the technological singularity, so wake me up when we actually get there.
It saves immeasurable time. Your time may not be valuable, but mine is.
Yeah and another way to say that is my job is complicated enough they cannot be automated via lua script with ambition.
Rather than being an ass wipe why don't you tell us what you are immensely important and easily automatable job is. And then I guess you can go find a new career, or something.
I've posted examples in the past, enema bag. No new career necessary. My current career, attained with an MSc in Machine Learning, is serving me just fine.
No, credit when credit's due, LLMs have arrived (by themselves) or helped to arrive at some mathematical conclusions, didn't they?
A few of ErdΕs, some others.
Yes, it's, a very small subset (duh), out of god knows how many they tried, and achieving the solution is made via technique called "infinite monkeys typing out Hamlet", but credit when credit's due (unlike LLMs that don't properly attribute parts of the proofs).
Yeah I knew you'd say something like that. Mean while the rest of the human race is busy getting on with existing and not worrying about hyper specific mathematical constructs that have no bearing on actual reality. Let me know when you come up with some kind of actual concrete used for the technology rather than some toy situation.