This is why the aitechbrodude will never understand opposition to AI. They don’t understand anything of substance.
Why eat, when you can just get someone else to lick it and tell you what it tasted like?
No thanks. I’d rather feed a robot and have it vomit into my mouth.
pro tip: you can basically visit > 100 cities per day for free by using google street view.
VR does kind of scratch this itch a bit. I’ve done flyovers/360 tours of places I’ve lived and visited and its certainly more immersive than photos.
As a poor person in the US, I treat Geoguessr like a virtual street tour around random parts of the world. Actually traveling would be nice, but seeing real life on street view is fascinating in its own way.
Pro tip: you can basically… 100… free of charge… without consent… not committing a single crime… by visiting PornHub… Never mind.
You can experience what every living thing has experienced by dying. Everything dies. May as well skip the journey and head to the end/summary?
Dude you hit the nail on the head. This should only be done with questionable books that don’t have the best plot, idea or premise to find out if it’s worth reading or not if you don’t want to ask people and wait for a response for several hours or days until they respond lol. :3
Same thing with whatshisface that runs Microsoft.
There was an article recently about how he “enjoys podcasts”… by feeding the transcript of the podcast into the AI, letting it summarise it, and having a conversation with the AI about the podcast on his commute to work.
Comically missing the point that a podcast is a performative medium; the presenter(s) telling you the story is a part of the artform, which you’ve just lost. Turn off tech-bro brain, just for a minute, and actually engage in the product as it was intended.
It just boggles the mind, do they really think they’ve stumbled on some sort of secret the rest of us have been sleeping on?
I remember studying a Broadway play for drama class in middle school, and the original plan was to go watch it alongside our studying of it. However, 9/11 had just happened, and the idea of going to New York City at that time scared enough parents that the fieldtrip was cancelled.
The teacher lamented that we weren’t going to get the full, proper experience of the play without seeing it performed live. Even reading it in a classroom was considered a low bar.
And now, here we are, expecting AI to summarize a script, a script which already fails to capture everything the play would’ve provided.
We’re making copies of copies, and nobody’s refilling the toner.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and amid revolution and resurrection, two cities bore witness to sacrifice as Sydney Carton, seeking redemption, found “a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.”
This is kind of like me when I don’t really want to watch a movie or show but I want to know what is it about so I just watch a summarized commentary on YouTube for a fraction of the time
… only I’m aware I don’t really want to watch it in the first place
There’s so many movies I get recommended which are just awful. Reading the Wikipedia entry and plot is often all I need to understand if it’s worth it or not.
Imdb rating does it for me. Unless it’s something I want to watch regardless, I’m unlikely to bother with anything below a 7/10.
I always discover that one or two episodes in. It’s always that it’s a good idea executed poorly.
The fan wiki is great when you just want more of the idea but to skip the cruddy details.Yes, that’s the case. Good direction can turn the most banal story into something interesting, but that’s a rare trait, and on top of that shows and film are teamwork that also needs to answer to producers/investors/broadcasters interests and requirements. Keeping an idea fresh, with good pacing, and interesting taking all that into account is very hard.
Wow!
AI is like Uber for Cliffs Notes!Imagine how much time we could save if we got an AI summary of the Cliffs Notes.
I did one better!
Give me an elevator pitch of the top 10,000 works of literature and philosophy throughout history. Ima speed-run me into a sage this afternoon.
Humanity wrestles with meaning, morality, power, suffering, love, and the search for truth—across every age and culture, we tell stories and ask questions to understand ourselves, each other, and the world, forever torn between hope and despair, freedom and fate, reason and mystery.
I’m now a sage!
To be sort of fairish, I get the impression that anyone who would say that is the sort of person who could read a book cover to cover and manage to not get anything more than a rough outline of the plot out of it anyway.
Just ignore what random people write on X. They write all kinds of stupid opinions there.
I want off this rock
I can also ask someone else to read a book for me, but I don’t get any enjoyment from that.
Or you can just read the plot summary on Wikipedia which is going to be vastly more accurate because it was written by humans and not some shitty LLM.
Right? This keeps happening when people try to sell me on LLMs. We already had better solutions for some of this stuff.
You won’t learn anything from mere summaries. But the better way to use AI, is to just get it to reference tons of material, then go do the research yourself.
I used to say this about social media when everyone was going off about Critical Race Theory and saying all these “gotchas” that were addressed in the book: Just read the book. Don’t listen to random people to tell you how to think, just read it and form an opinion. If the entire thought process could be summarized in a tweet, then author would’ve done that. It’s a book because you need that much information to understand it.
Not looking good for us all.
Finding sources is part of the research process btw.
Old Yeller: a book about murdering dogs.
to kill a mockingbird: a book about justice properly administered in the american deep south.
you can also read the descriptions
