RE: AI You're Wasting my Time!
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If you want a summary of a book please please go find one written by a human.The amount of stuff I've seen people quote from AI that is just straight up wrong makes my scholarly side weep.
Any answer AI gives you is a mess of stuff written by other people. Doing the extra work of reading stuff by actual humans will give you much better insights than just reading what an AI that doesn't actually understand it says.
And if you are giving an opionion based on an AI summary, you are not giving your opinion of the book as you've not read it. Why not just say "I haven't read it"?
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I was talking about specific queries in which people have falsely attributed an idea to an author. This is a common problem.
For me to assert that an author did not say something, I have to buy every single work of the author to show that the idea was misattributed.
It can take a year and several thousand dollars to answer this type of question.
Since AI has access to the life work of an author, I can ask "did author say 'x' or a logical equivalence of x"?
If the author did say "X" then it gives me a citation. If the author did not say "X" the ai is often able to find out who actually said "X"
The AI world is developing alternatives to generative AI that are even better at asking such questions.
A google search is just as reliable. Probably more as AI has given incorrect answers.
Saying you'd need to personally read everything an author wrote is being silly.
I should not first that Google Search is an AI. It has always been an AI and adds new analytical tools with each release.
Google searches cannot answer the type of question I just asked.
The core google algorithm has been getting worse.
The current google search uses ai.
A better analogy would be that I could answer the questions that I asked with GREP. Even then, i could only answer questions with the library that I owned and that was encoded on my computer.
The answers I would get is only as good as the library I owned.
It would cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of man hours to build a library that could answer the simple question: did author A say X? If not then who actually said X?
To answer this question. "Did author A say X?" I have to be familiar with every work of the author and be able to summarize each of the writings.
I do not like Marx. I do not like Hegel and I do not like Kant. I don't want to have to read this mush again! AI helps in sorting out what these jokers actually said.
The Talmud is like 6000 pages. It takes rabbis seven and a half years to read. I have no intention of doing that. There are crazy Baptist preachers who like to misquote the Talmud. I feel comfortable with AI's refutation of the things the crazy baptists say.
Why are you wanting to discuss stuff you cant even be bothered to do real research on?
Also if you can't see the difference between an algorithm that finds resources and one that comes to conclusions for you, well, thats a serious flaw in logic.
Short version: AI is not a substitute for your brain, it is simply an information gathering tool and you still have to think for yourself!