I have never once found an “AI” feature integrated by a corporation useful.
I have only ever found “AI” useful when it’s unobtrusive, and something I chose to use manually. Sometimes an LLM is useful to use, but I don’t need it shilled to me inside a search bar or in a support chat that won’t solve my problem until I bypass the LLM.
What were the useful scenarios, if you don’t mind?
I primarily end up using LLMs through DuckDuckGo’s private frontend alongside a search, so if my current search doesn’t yield the correct answer to my question (i.e. I ask for something but those keywords only ever turn up search results on a different, but similar topic) then I go to the LLM and ask a more refined question, that otherwise doesn’t produce any relevant results in a traditional keyword search.
I also use integrated LLMs to format and distill my offhand notes, (and reformat arbitrary text based on specific criteria repeatedly for structured notes,) learn programming syntax more at my own pace and in my own way, and just generally get answers on more well-known topics a lot faster than I would scrolling past 5 pages of SEO-“optimized” garbage just designed to fill time for the ads to load before actually giving me a good answer.
ChatGPT itself is usually useful. I usually asked it to explain something new as a base start for searching it myself
I find customer support service Chatbots useful, they tend to ask the right questions before connecting me to an actual human, so I don’t have to explain myself over and over. They also categorize your problem so you won’t be forwarded 3 times till you finally reach the right department. They’re essentially like the “press 1 to…, press 2 to…” shtick during a service call, except the customer support person has access to your chat history.
I find those kinds of chatbots useful, but those aren’t the ones I encounter 90% of the time. Most of the time, it’s a chatbot that summarizes the help articles I just read, giving faulty interpretations of the source material, that then goes on to never direct me to a real person unless I tell it multiple times that the articles it’s paraphrasing aren’t helping. (and sometimes, they have no live support at all, and only an LLM + support articles)
At work I use the summary function in edge to generate code since all tohet llm are blocked. It is really helpful to burp templates of programs when you tell it your grand mother is dying
I have occasionally found the Google search AI handy in pointing me in the right direction, like when I can’t remember or don’t know a particular term for something, it’s decent at giving me the term I’m actually searching for. Can’t trust it for shit as it’s intended to be used though.
Oh yeah, it’s definitely useful for that!
Since LLMs are essentially just very complicated probabilistic links between words, it seems to be extremely good at picking the exact word or phrase that even a thesaurus couldn’t get me.
If the amount of money spent equalled the amount of utility in the stuff it would be more popular than it is
I had to change WhatsApp language to Fr*nch for it’s facebook AI button to disappear.
first good thing the French have done
You could also just not use the button though right? Lol
In my country we don’t have an AI button either. What it’s supposed to do?? It’s the AI talking for you? Or it’s just another chatbot trying to get your data?
You click on it and enter prompts.
There’s no option hide that button.
its
Whatsapp has AI? Is this very new or county specific?
Doesn’t work for me.
??? Most of the AI creators are more like “PAYWALL!!! PAAAAYYYWALLLL!!!”
Please bro please let me generate a few sentences of garbled sentences for you please bro I fucking love to say stuff like “delve” please
Fucking google messages now has “AI”
And Proton Mail as of today. JFC JUST GIVE ME A LINUX DRIVE CLIENT FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Proton Mail also has AI? Just opened the app and found nothing
Do you pay for it?
No, I use “the free plan”. /srs
I hope this comment finds you well,
This meme perfectly captures the desperate plea of tech companies trying to get users to embrace their AI features. It’s like they’re saying, “We promise it’s worth it—just look at that gradient!” 😅
I am an person
I’m sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable writing a reply to this comment because the only possible intelligent replies involve profanity or hate speech. Would you prefer a nice cookie recipe instead?
You can ask it anything bro
Ask it to fuck off.
Hi! Copilot has detected informal language in your response. Are you stressed by any chance? I have scheduled a priority meeting with your allocated HR during your lunch break to sort things out. Please let me know if you need anything else. Happy coding!And it’ll tell you it can’t respond to that because of its rules (censorship) and then say that using glue is a good way to off yourself.
I don’t even use LLMs to generate code because all we ever do anymore is migrate the horde of microservices with one or two endpoints that was going to fix software development forever three years ago to the latest hype hosting and devops platform that will somehow eliminate the maintenance cost of having all those services this time for real.
I’m in marketing. And AI has been great at coming up with new ideas.
“Why would you need AI in a toaster firmware? Uhhhh don’t think about it! Yeah, just use the damn thing! It will make your toast so much better trust me!”
Fucking Adobe PDF is becoming damn near unusable because of this. Frustrating because I absolutely have to use it all day every day.
try okular
PDF X-change has entered the chat
The ability to filter comments actively as you mark them off as completed is magnificent.
You mark a comment, it hides itself. Neat and tidy, fantastic.
Why doesn’t Adobe do this, you ask? Who the fuck knows. Especially since you used to be able to in Acrobat.
Why? Were people complaining it was too helpful?
I’m still learning it. It has a ton of capabilities, but haven’t got to it yet. It’s OCR is kind of meh, even at highest setting
I like how on Amazon, the “Rufus” thing always pops up over the stuff I’m trying to read.
“How can I turn off rufus” didn’t come up with anything except how to turn it off in the app, not on the website.
I had to use Ublock Origin to select and block it.
I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.
Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.
Kagi’s AI summariser is pretty good. It cites its sources and, by default, it only kicks in when you search with a ? on the end.
To be fair, I’m pretty impressed with Kagi Search overall. But that’s a topic for a different thread, I think.
