How often do you use AI?

[Lightning CycleQueen]

I'm wondering how often do you use AI?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not yet, no need for it

 

[diplodicus]

As little as possible

 

[Drago]

Never knowingly or willingly.

 

[Dadam]

Multiple times daily though with mixed feelings. I have to for my job, we're relying on it more and more. Done well it's a definite timesaver. Roughing out documents, producing feedback on content we've created, or acting as a research assistant. It's very good at being a more targeted search engine and it can collate the info it finds and summarise it into a convenient one pager with sources. For generating code it's now getting scarily good, our engineers are using it for writing code and unit tests, often with one or two agents writing code and another writing the tests, and a third acting as an overseer/architect and checking both against the spec and the guardrails. The agents are given different priorities and sometimes they are from different LLMs.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Do you just mean the LLMs or are you including the other implementations of AI as well?

 

[annedonnelly]

As little as possible. I've moved to using a no-AI search engine.

 

[Fastpedaller]

My Daughter is a University lecturer, and the students are told they can use AI (as long as they declare it) to assist with grammar structuring. They overstep the mark and use it to create their work content, and don't declare they've even used it to structure. Easy to fail them for that piece of work - they are asked 'tell me more about this part' and, of course, they don't know anything about it. Shocking that they can't see the value in gaining knowledge about the subject. We know of someone (different Uni) who openly stated he passed a Masters and used AI for his thesis

 

[a.twiddler]

As little as possible. I think it's going to be impossible to not use it in the future in the same way that it's difficult to get through life without phone apps now, no matter how much you might hate them, because the option to do something else won't be offered.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Used properly, I find it very useful.

 

[Dogtrousers]

AI was much better a few years ago when it was rubbish.

Seems like only yesterday (it was 2019) when Janelle Shane published "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You" which was a relatively sensible book about AI but featured it being amusingly inadequate or just plain weird. It doesn't do that anymore.

 

[Gunk]

Used properly, I find it very useful.

Me too

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I pick Google AI's pinch of salt brains most days now since mid summer, but only for mundane stuff like which tyres and what pressures.