I’m assuming this a joke as that trope has long been disproved.
Yes definitely a joke. From a youth of playing Grand theft auto 3 almost religiously the amount of times i saw it in the news is laughable
Yes, and once drawn in and familiar with what you are using the prices initially gradually increase and eventually increase at crazy rates.
Yes and No. OpenAI etc are priced a hell of alot lower and Anthropic have enacted some changes for that too with blocking third party usage. To be fair that is the tech stack approach for years now like how AirBnB and Uber embedded themselves are the go to and then changed their pricing. However there have been big strides in local models and being able to use them on your own hardware. So building tools that can be moved away from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic are a must. However building these tools I think are outside of the scope of an SME to do themselves as there are alot of moving parts to manage. But the rewards are there to be taken. For me lets take advantage of their low pricing now for ourselves and build to know we will not be using them later to make them obsolete
That is there plan, but there is a lot of competition, a lot of light users will not pay a lot more and local AI is improving rapidly too. Even now I think it would be a lot cheaper for a team on typical business subs to spend a few grand on their own hardware and run local AIs. Not quite as good, but no worse than the best ones were six months ago. Unless you really need the best, not worth paying a lot.
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. It does feel like anything that’s more about operating tools than actually making decisions is starting to get chipped away pretty quickly.
Another study indicating AI impairs brain performance.
You could probably add that same test to those using a calculator and suddenly take it away.
I am not convinced this is meaningful
Is that true, though?
@gpietersz much like Ozzy's post, my own experience is over-reliance on GPS which means my sense of direction is no longer as good as it used to be.
My husband will not use the car's GPS. which is unfortunate because he has no sense of direction whatsoever.
I find they each have their strengths, as well as 'bad days'.
I've been caught out by this myself, listening to some acoustic music and thinking I'll add it to my favourites on Spotify only to find I cannot and it was AI on YouTube.This week I have been listening to a bit of music and my granddaughter tells me it AI
Sat Nav is a good but incomplete example.
I guess the similarity here is that if you put in 'High Street' into a SatNav, it then gives you directions to the first one it finds in its database, rather than presenting you with a list of options to choose the correct one.
Using calculators will undoubtedly make you worse at pen and paper arithmetic, (and maybe mental arithmetic), but that is not a useful or important skill. What matters is that kids who use calculators end up better at understanding the concepts and therefore algebra, geometry, etc.
My ex would use it, but she would then suddenly decide she knew better and go another way!
Yes, and its useful in general. However it do something very well in general but sometimes make a huge mess of it - I have found this with writing tests, for example.
"threat" to our brains is a bit much. It does put information in the hands of those who are unable to think analytically or proof it etc but that is the same for any amount of people looking at news articles etc.
Overall calculators help but it was in reference to the actual study as the way you calculate and work out mathematical problems with and without a calculator are very different. Especially if you start introducing Sin, Cos, Tan etc into the mix
I would like to say I was caught out but what they did is brilliant.
The boys and girls on here said it would change things 
Yep this is one of the applications that really annoys me as its just so lazy. Some of these "bots" can be really good but its never a set and leave it sort of thing have to make sure its always learning its growing its knowledge base and actually able to understand context rather than just replying to one comment.Seeing as this thread is about AI musings, I thought I'd post a cautionary tale:
I also frequent a different forum. That forum's popularity is (or was) comparable to UKBF's.
Over the last couple of years, user engagement on that forum has declined. As it happens, this decline coincided with the owner's decision to install an "AI companion" that would reply to user-generated content with content of its own.
For the last year or so, human participation has declined by 80-90%, and most days any new content is generated by the "AI companion" alone, to the point it has risen to the threshold of a spam-bot.
This wouldn't be as bad if the "AI companion" provided actual useful information, but the replies are often factually wrong, obtrusive and even patronising.
In the meantime, the owner has de facto abdicated his role, and is letting the "AI companion" run the show, to the point that any user complaint about AI are replied to by the AI bot itself (!)
This, to me, has become a textbook case of what not to do with AI.
Before I get linched, I am not saying I will do this...but...
I just want to take this opportunity to clarify:
