[FergusArgyll]

One of the most interesting things to me about AI is that it seems no one has a clear use for intelligence (besides for programming which has taken off)

Every demo by openai showing of their models is "tell me how tall the statue of liberty is divided by the year the inventor of steam engines was born". It's cool but it's so hard to find an actual use. As a personal answer machine I find it very useful but if someone told me 5 years ago; here's a natural language computer as smart as at least every 15 year old, it costs a few bucks per million words. I would have thought that the applications would just scream out but till this day - outside of programming (a big deal tbc) - no one has found a good use for intelligence. It's so so weird.

I guess even a company can't just automatically make more money by hiring more people but I'm still confused

[Timwi]

A lot of people use AI to write things, from mundane emails over blog posts and news articles all the way to full novels and non-fiction books. I'm not saying the results are any good, I'm just saying people find use for it. Another common use-case is summarizing or proofreading.

[FergusArgyll]

Right, and I find it really useful as an answer machine but I would have thought that we can do more. Like, is a 15 year old who only has access to a terminal unemployable?