You should be less influenced by trends but more by real results.
I just used it 30 seconds ago for comparing export data: https://aussie.zone/post/17570399/14730920
and last night for French language practice with https://morpheem.org/fr-en
and https://chat.mistral.ai/chat earlier today for putting together a bunch of keyalgo's and macs into an SSH command to get into my router
and https://lmstudio.ai/ with any one of these for javascript practice:
I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.
For me:
I go into giant warehouse size of small city
find what i want, price is decent
i go through self checkout and leave
👍
everytime I've been has been fine? except when I look for a small widget that has 10 in stock on the website but there's none on the shelf because scumbags have stolen them all but 99% of the time it's fine
You can absolutely leave and fund a “good” company, good luck getting anywhere.
If the product has value then people will buy it*
Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can't get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people
This isn't a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you
*I assume the products would have little logos on them like "non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!" etc
few niche uses? it has heaps of uses that aren’t niche at all
https://aussie.zone/post/16417192/14017352
perplexity.ai is a better search engine than any current ones and that’s about as mainstream a use as you can get
I basically only see men attacked for
Hmm maybe this might help (it came out 3 days before the election) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSw04BwQy4M
Waiting for OSM to replace google maps, unfortunately the tiling is more like a 1990's car street map than a modern bing/google maps and there's nothing I can find that replaces youtube for sheer volume of content
Outside of that, Apple Iphone/Google android are about the only American things I still depend on
And if you don’t always double check, it will bite you in the ass eventually. Good luck with that.
When did the web ever present itself as a completely factual and never wrong? There's plenty of evidence of wikipedia being wrong on wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia
Do I get things wrong? Sure, never said I was perfect either, if someone tells me I got a stat or a figure or something wrong, great!
The question for me is: is it wrong enough to make the results completely unreliable, and the answer to that is no, more often than not it provides accurate information.
If it wasn’t for the web being a monetized SEO algo shithole we could still just search the web!
That's not accurate to me, AI/SEO search results are still a minority of results that I get, most of the time I get close to what I'm looking for, but AI search summarisation is essentially the next level of search for me:
Dogpile/Altavista/AskJeeves > Google > AI powered search summarisation
I get essentially what I'm looking for directly, why click on a page with 47 ads, a video pop up or something else when all I'm looking for is:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/do-you-have-a-basic-egg-on-toa-pkpsq9WwSMm5G8ICsmDnbw#0
Is it a complete replacement? Not yet, Ecosia is still my daily driver having used it 25,000+ times in the last year but AI is making a serious dent in how often I use it.
we don’t need to build acres of compute powered by nuclear reactors to fix the problem.
I would keep an eye on that, the gains in AI have been massive in the last few years, and we're starting to potentially see a turning point with DeepSeekv3 being created on a fraction of the cost and power of other models
DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).
For reference, this level of capability is supposed to require clusters of closer to 16K GPUs...
*This could turn out to be wrong hence why I'm keeping an eye on it **I'm absolutely certain a whole lot of execs are stunned right now they're spending billions when something that cost millions came up right next to them
Okay, but then, why is AI useful? If you’re going to look at sources anyway, what’s the point?
Because it summarises the results, it's like a search engine but better
The rest? It’s wasteful and it won’t last.
I'm using it for coding in a way that it isn't going anywhere, I'm using LM Studio with Qwen2.5 Coder and Mistral 7b, these are offline models so even if Alibaba or Mistral go broke they'll continue to work.
Example of what it looks like:
It seems like lots of people are using it in a similar way, no longer searching the web and clicking on sometimes 100 results trying to figure out a problem but instead using AI to answer questions:
While originally it was constantly making mistakes there's now Chain of Thought and code sandboxing, it has gotten so much better so quickly
So now I've got: web search summarisation, a far better reddit/forum search and summarisation, text to image generation and personal coding assistant, each of these in and of themselves would be an amazing program used by millions and that's ignoring using it for assistance with language learning:
https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-max/
song making
etcetc
If it wasn't for the web being an absolute social media shithole with no moderation resulting in AI slop being pasted all over the place, AI would genuinely be the greatest tech revolution I've seen since the iphone.