I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?
Anything that requires tons of iteration can be done way faster with AI. Finding new chemical formulas for medicine, as an example. It takes a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach, but it’s still more effective than a human.
Brute force is AI now?
brute force would be “throw at the wall one at a time until one stick”
As long as everything gets thrown it’s still brute force, but the reason they use ai for it is because it can throw a lot more a lot faster.
Presumably in order to determine whether the eg chemical is worth looking at in the first place