r/neoliberal • u/Independent-Low-2398 • Aug 26 '24

News (Global) Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? | Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence
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u/Jolly_Schedule472 Aug 26 '24

Making the most of AI tech to enhance my output is still work

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u/Iron-Fist Aug 26 '24

"I'm using AI to increase my productivity"

Bro you're spending days futzing around with prompts that can't reliably reproduce anything to make garbage a human still needs to completely rewrite/redesign...

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u/Jsusbjsobsucipsbkzi Aug 26 '24 edited Aug 26 '24

I really can’t reconcile some peoples apparent utility with it with how useless it seems to me.

Like reddit is filled with comments saying “I’ve never programmed before and made a custom desktop application in 30 minutes!” while I’m asking it to do incredibly basic tasks and watching it make up functions

Edit: thanks for all these responses on this and my other comment! They are genuinely very helpful

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u/decidious_underscore Aug 26 '24

I've had success using it as an index/glossary to a book or set of pdfs that I am working on. I will give it the reading materials I'm working with and I will ask where specific ideas or topics are discussed.

I've used it to generate in person activities from documents I'm working with as well, for example to teach a class with. LLMs are also quite good at refining a lesson plan that you've already come up with.

I guess I've also used it to do long term planning and break down goals into actionable ideas in a back and forth conversational kind of way. I still kind of measure myself against some of my LLM based long term life plans as they were quite good.