AI and how you use it.

@hilde45 + 1

I love this line:

our own innate growing abilities which are in need to be worked by us alone thinking reading meditating

This is a very important value to preserve. I agree.

Then there’s this line:

The only rational use of A.I. is as a mere springboard to our own research and thinking... 

The only rational use?

This morning I asked AI how to change a setting on my phone -- the answer was immediate and accurate. I asked it yesterday about how to re-set my Sonos system -- immediate and accurate answer. These were not springboards  but complete answers.

While the reply makes some sense to me, it gives in to hyperbole in defense of something very much worth defending.

In other words, there’s at least more than one "rational" use to AI. Over and out.

You distorted my sentence..Read it again...

You  make a personal research about phone no ?

 The only rational use of A.I. is being  springboard for personal  research practical or theoretical...

 I guess there is many researchs possible and many thinking processes possible no ?

Then you did well, using A.I. as springboard to help you and go possibly further on your own on this phone matter... A. I. was a springboard...The fact that you were satisfied by the A.I. directives dont makes my post preposterous... Your action is not a measure of truth... The habit to consult A.I. is not a measure of reason nor reason itself but just an habit for practical day to day necessities.. My post was about more than just that:habits.

 There is many researchs  but only one reason as faculty or ability of the mind, the meaning intended  is clearly  here in my post  described as the use of  A.I. as   our own thinking springboard... Not as a "know it all"  resource which can dispense us of any further thinking or research...No hyperbole save in your mind...

Need to remind you of the context of this A.I. posts : It was not just about practical use and habit but my post was about the trade-off implied long term..

You are a corrector i assume you know what a "context" of text is.

The only rational use?

This morning I asked AI how to change a setting on my phone -- the answer was immediate and accurate. I asked it yesterday about how to re-set my Sonos system -- immediate and accurate answer. These were not springboards  but complete answers.

While the reply makes some sense to me, it gives in to hyperbole in defense of something very much worth defending.In other words, there’s at least more than one "rational" use to AI. Over and out.

My reply make sense for anyone with good faith or mastery of English. Even if  my English is "minimalisticaly" good as everyone know...

In a word: there is only one rational use of our own  reason long term and short term: not using A.I. as a replacement of our own working mind...

Not conflating A.I. with Reason itself...

« If you dont like the dog he sure has fleas» -- Groucho Marx 

@erik_squires  " ChatGPT will let you ask a hypothetical and then remembers it as fact."

ChatGPT only remembers the conversation (exchange) as long as the conversation continues (ie. logoff kills it).  It  gave me a screwy answer the other day and I called it out.  It apologized (!) and said on second thought I was right.  

I then asked if the same query was entered on another day would it have been corrected.  The answer: NO....only as long as this query was still active and in this chat.

So you are not self-correcting?  NO.

I have no idea if that was the machine hallucinating or because I'm using the free model GPT-4o architecture.  

There is a setting such that an individual user can ask IT to remember previous chats, I have not tried it.

Regards,

barts

@barts - Claude is absolutely psychophantic, but the ability to reset what it remembers in context is actually helpful.  I keep a database of past sessions so I can ask it questions about a prior chat, without necessarily invoking it to recreate it’s past contextual state.