AI and it's usefulness in everyday life?

[paulsharvey]

Play with fire, don't cry when burn't

I also enjoy playing with fire. Stop drop and roll has saved me several times

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I think it was around 1972 when electronic calculators were first being used.
People were saying "This will make life so much easier. We won't have to do any calculations."

I had a math teacher at the time who was also a wounded Vietnam veteran.

He said "Calculators are not for mankind to do less...Calculators are so that mankind can do more"

I think the same can be said for lots of things, such as the internet, cell phones, and now AI.

 

[paulsharvey]

I think it was around 1972 when electronic calculators were first being used.
People were saying "This will make life so much easier. We won't have to do any calculations."

I had a math teacher at the time who was also a wounded Vietnam veteran.

He said "Calculators are not for mankind to do less...Calculators are so that mankind can do more"

I think the same can be said for lots of things, such as the internet, cell phones, and now AI.

I think that same case can be made of the steam engine, car, electricity, telephone, ect. Even back to fire and the first stone tools.

Edit: I'm not implying what we are discussing is equal to the steam engine, or stone tools; but every new technology is largely about getting more done, not necessarily about easing work load.

 

[CalG]

Ultimately

ai is to Replace humans in their labors.

What will we do then?

That is point. What should we be doing NOW!

 

[Hay Dude]

The smartphone is a perfect example of technology being a double edged sword. While it enables you to conduct business, or otherwise be reachable anytime, anyplace, it's increasingly obligating you to do the same. Once upon a time, you came home from work and you were done for the day, weekend, etc. (unless you were one of a relative few who were on call after hours). Nowadays employers, customers, friends, family, whoever expect you to be reachable at any time, for any reason, no matter how trite. You've become a slave to a gadget.

One of my closest friends doesn’t have a cell phone.
He seems to be the happiest of all of us.

 

[Eagle1]

One of my closest friends doesn’t have a cell phone.
He seems to be the happiest of all of us.

When I left the corporate world and bought this place, a big plus was NO cell service. We got rid of ours in 2007 and it has been a blessing in my life. From being on call 24/7 to you can't reach me I'm hunting tree rats/mushrooms and will get back when I get back....
Not for everyone but works for me

 

[WinterDeere]

One of my closest friends doesn’t have a cell phone.
He seems to be the happiest of all of us.

I can believe that, but different people find happiness in different things. I'm happiest when facing bad weather on a boat, a scenario that leaves most people somewhere between terrified and seasick.

 

[paulsharvey]

So, was dealing with manholes today, and one of them was cast in the "Palatka Foundry", which has been closed for Many years. I found something on it once, and I believe, based on memory of the article, in 1928. Just to refresh my memory, hit Deepseek with the question of when it closed.

Had Deep Think on, showing it's reasoning, and it blah blah, industrial center for before the war, couldn't find anything, a brief history of it possibly being a CSA supplier.

But the answer, not finding real info, it just says Palatka Foundry was destroyed in 1864 when the union crossed the river.

That's not true...the sanitary sewer system there is not from 1860s, it's from 1890-1910s.

 

[paulsharvey]

I would Much prefer it comes back as an "I don't know" or insufficient source data, then it making up a false, but possible Sounding answer.

 

[Eagle1]

So, was dealing with manholes today, and one of them was cast in the "Palatka Foundry", which has been closed for Many years. I found something on it once, and I believe, based on memory of the article, in 1928. Just to refresh my memory, hit Deepseek with the question of when it closed.

Had Deep Think on, showing it's reasoning, and it blah blah, industrial center for before the war, couldn't find anything, a brief history of it possibly being a CSA supplier.

But the answer, not finding real info, it just says Palatka Foundry was destroyed in 1864 when the union crossed the river.

That's not true...the sanitary sewer system there is not from 1860s, it's from 1890-1910s.

Simple human search dissolve 1936
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