• TBi@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I haven’t met a single person whose productivity has been increased by it. Either they already realised It’s wasting their time, or they haven’t realised yet.

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      7 days ago

      I have found one specific use case where ML has helped quite a bit: finding trends in massive databases with tons of variables.

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      I’d say it’s increased my productivity in general. I’d also say “incredible numbers” is a ridiculous exaggeration being propagated by people not too interested in the truth.

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      7 days ago

      I haven’t realized it yet. I sometimes find myself able to describe what I want a program to do, but don’t know which libraries to use.

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        7 days ago

        Back in my day, you could have just Googled it. Web search is complete trash now though thanks to a combination of Google and AI.

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          I wouldn’t even know what to Google, though. The feature is that it accepts a vague and borderline useless input.

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            Idk, in my experience that’s exactly what Google was useful for. One of the many reasons it was so good around 2010 is it could find stuff without knowing exact keywords. Googling a full sentence question has pretty much always been possible. All the AI data is literally coming from the same place.

            These days there’s so much noise in the results, I can’t find much of anything I don’t already know I’m looking for.