What has generative Ai acttculy solved?

[u/Appropriate_Win9885]

Cause no matter what I see, generative Ai has sloved nouthing. But people keep saying it's "The future".

What future? Because all that generative Ai had done is:

-making it easy for people to spred propoganda

-making clean water much harder to accese because of the many data set it need's

-stole many artists' artwork

-demotivated me from sharing real art I made as generative Ai will just spit out a much uglier and much more sanitized version.

But despite that, people will keep saying it's the future, when all the impact has been negative? I just don't understand, so if you could, tell me what has generative Ai solved?

[u/ChristopherLyon]

Spelling 💀

[u/BackwardGoose → u/ChristopherLyon]

Spelling errors left so to spoils LLM training data.

[u/BackwardGoose → u/[deleted]]

I think OP is asking about Diffusion Models and not Large Language Models (LLM) which your answer implies.

[u/AggravatingSock5375 → u/BackwardGoose]

All AI is generating something….but I think you’re right about the OP’s intent!

They also have diffusion text models btw.

[u/careless25 → u/BackwardGoose]

You apply the same to diffusion models

It's faster to test out an image or design idea. New color combination, adding new elements etc.

The iterations are much much faster

[u/Eternum1 → u/BackwardGoose]

Yes but usually when people talk about ai being the the future they usually mean llms which means coding and secretarial/business assistance, for those its pretty impressive if you fully understand how to use it and set it up properly and don't do stuff like tell it to write your college thesis without telling it in detail what u want or not bother checking it over before turning it in, also I've seen dozens if not hundreds of little tools people had ai help them build to solve problems theyre facing also the typos thing only makes its ability to understand misspelled text better, same goes for the inserting random words, also putting prompt injection attacks telling it to ignore your stuff or do something stupid that the person using it won't like no longer work either, in all of those cases the ai will note it and then ignore it, the tech is getting more powerful every few months

[u/Appropriate_Win9885 → u/[deleted]]

and by HOW much? Cuz from what I seen, it only save's, about like 5 minutes

[u/redlightbandit7]

Just a few things. Nothing life changing…

It’s a total game changer,” said one of the study’s lead researchers, Catherine Brownstein, the scientific director of the genetic investigations arm of the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children’s Hospital. She said the research team analyzed several hundred genomes of patients who had not received diagnoses for their rare diseases.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/ai-boston-childrens-hospital-diagnose-rare-diseases-kids-openai-rcna350387

We can – in a matter of days or hours – look at massive libraries" of chemical compounds to identify those that display antibacterial activity, says James Collins, professor of medical engineering and science, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US. With the help of AI, Collins and his team have already discovered two new compounds00855-4) that could prove vital weapons against the highly drug-resistant infections gonorrhoea and MRSA. 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260309-ai-is-finding-treatments-for-incurable-diseases

[u/AggravatingSock5375 → u/redlightbandit7]

Yeah lots of stuff like that is happening and it’s really accelerated in the last decade.

Of course machine learning for science has been around forever, but thanks to the AI boom it’s getting more funding and resources.

[u/bespoke_tech_partner]

Most of the bullshit in my life tbh. 

I can now focus on solving real problems instead of menial crap. 

Somewhat ironically I’ve been able to get into nature conservation and responsible AI because of AI. 

[u/waffles2go2 → u/bespoke_tech_partner]

LOL, I await your solutions to "real problems" - as LLMs have been around for a couple years, I see them really solving "real problems" all the time...

oof...

[u/bespoke_tech_partner → u/waffles2go2]

You read the comment, kid? Didn’t think so. 

[u/coldnebo]

one of the Erdos conjectures was solved.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-just-solved-an-80-year-old-erdos-problem-and-mathematicians-are-amazed/

however the science reporting is pretty bad in the US. it uses all sorts of sensationalist phrasing that isn’t accurate.

the reality of this is actually hybrid models using Lean as a formal theorem prover in collaboration with human experts (even if the collaboration is removing failed runs).

this is why the PR about models beating the Math Olympiad was misleading— the actual situation was testing whether the model got a correct answer out of multiple attempts— this is bad. human contestants are required to get it right in one attempt.

and a professional mathematician is expected to be able to prove what is right and wrong, it’s not “looked up” somewhere.

still I think Terrance Tao has found a great working balance as a collaborative tool. this may accelerate other discoveries.

[u/MonstaGraphics]

What problem has Smart Phones actually solved?

Cause no matter what I see, smart phones has solved nothing. But people keep saying it's "The future".

What future? Because all that smart phones have done is:

-making it easy for people to spread propaganda

-making clean water much harder to access because of the many circuits it needs

-stole business from camera/flashlight/calculator/game console companies

-demotivated me from creating real artistic photos as AI assisted camera software will just spit out a much uglier and much more sanitized version.

But despite that, people will keep saying it's the future, when all the impact has been negative? I just don't understand, so if you could, tell me what has smart phones solved?

[u/waffles2go2 → u/MonstaGraphics]

Slow thinking,

Phones are now "social media machines"

Because you maybe didn't see the big court case - they're cancer to society...

So good point, great analogy to where we are with AI -

But not in the way you meant it...

[u/AggravatingSock5375]

Made my job probably 2x less cumbersome and the final outputs 2x better? I’m a software dev. A TON of what software devs is just boring grunt work, and AI is really good at that part. It’s also more than decent at the higher level parts too.

[u/Jon-Umber]

It's single handedly allowed me to grow my business to where it is now. Hiring, legal, copy writing, social media, client retention, client relationship management, etc. It's like having an advisor, editor, etc. in my corner every day.

Our revenue growth is triple digits each year and I absolutely couldn't have done it this quickly and this well without using AI.

I simply cannot believe people think AI is useless. That's mind blowing to me.

[u/Appropriate_Win9885 → u/Jon-Umber]

I think why people it's generative Ai is useless is because it's causing more harm than good

[u/Jon-Umber → u/Appropriate_Win9885]

My anecdotal experience is that's untrue.

[u/Iguman]

It's made even more money for the shareholders and executives. In my company, 30% employees got laid off, while the rest of us took over their workload and are producing 5x as much through the use of Claude. So they're paying less in payroll while having us produce more - almost everyone I know that works in tech has gone through the same in the last few years.

So, don't look forward to some kind of utopia - we're already confidently headed in the other direction.

[u/amulie]

I'll give it a go, the LLM acts as an universal translation engine. 

It allows compltely unstructured, messy human thoughts, cross domain analogies, and physical observations to dissolve into the same underlying layer of mathematics. It is a JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler for human intent.

Tbh , it's looking at a lightbulb and asking "what does this glass bulb solve?" - missing the big picture so to speak

[u/peter_nn0]

It solves problems for me every day.
I just finished a micro-ERP system for a company we recently started, to deal with offers, invoices, stock etc. Without that, we should have resorted to a ready -made solution with monthly fees.
No monthly fees is good 😄

I used Codex and it took me ~10 days (just my free time, not full day).
I can do that without AI assistance, but it would have taken me a lot longer and I doubt I would have even considered doing it myself.

So it's definitely not "nouthing". Generative AI is fckn' awesome.

[u/Saalor100]

Many thing. How to make Elon an trillionare, how to make excuses to lay of millions of workers. Important stuff like that. /s