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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's great for duping stupid people. There are no ethical benefits to the current LLM AI on the market.

It's got potential for use in research such as identifying potential medications to work with certain diseases based on molecular structure, something that would take a normal human countless hours but a machine could do in seconds, but AFAIK that field is a very tiny fraction of the market.

[–] Mamertine@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I work in IT for a Fortune 500 org.

We use LLMs to improve worker efficiency. There is a ton of taking info from here and there and entering it into our system. AI took the workload from humans doing data entry and freed the humans up to do less tedious things.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As I said, absolutely unethical. Even if the error percentage was the same or less than that of a human, which I really don't believe given the human inputs were training data so even at 100% accuracy the LLM would be as flawed as a human, then still in any industry where decisions are being made which impact people like accounting, forensics, logistics etc then having a machine making all of those decisions without contextual awareness is a disaster waiting to happen.

But yeah you don't have to convince me that fortune 500 CEOs are cheap assholes cutting costs, I believe you there.