I disagree with the assumption that AI is “narrow”. In a way GPT is more generally intelligent than humans, because of the breadth of knowledge and type of outputs, and it’s actually humans who outperform AI (by a lot) at certain narrow tasks.
And an assistance can include more than asking a question and receiving an answer. It can be exploratory with the right interface to a language model.
(Actually my stories are almost always exploratory, where I try random stuff, change the prompt a little, and recursively play around like that, to see what the AI will come up with)
“Specific”
Related to the above: in my opinion thinking of specific tools is the wrong framing. Like how a gun is not a tool to kill a specific person, it kills whoever you point it at. And a language model completes whichever thought or idea you start, effectively reducing the time you need to think.
So the most specific I can get is I’d make it help me build tooling (and I already have). And the better the tooling the more “power” the AI can give you (as George Hotz might put it).
For example I’ve built a simple webpage with ChatGPT despite knowing almost no javascript. What does this mean? It means my scope as a programmer just changed from Python to every language on earth (sort of), and it’s the same for any piece of knowledge, since ChatGPT can explain things pretty well. So I can access any concept or piece of understanding much more quickly, and there are lots of things Google searches simply don’t work for.
Disagreement.
I disagree with the assumption that AI is “narrow”. In a way GPT is more generally intelligent than humans, because of the breadth of knowledge and type of outputs, and it’s actually humans who outperform AI (by a lot) at certain narrow tasks.
And an assistance can include more than asking a question and receiving an answer. It can be exploratory with the right interface to a language model.
(Actually my stories are almost always exploratory, where I try random stuff, change the prompt a little, and recursively play around like that, to see what the AI will come up with)
“Specific”
Related to the above: in my opinion thinking of specific tools is the wrong framing. Like how a gun is not a tool to kill a specific person, it kills whoever you point it at. And a language model completes whichever thought or idea you start, effectively reducing the time you need to think.
So the most specific I can get is I’d make it help me build tooling (and I already have). And the better the tooling the more “power” the AI can give you (as George Hotz might put it).
For example I’ve built a simple webpage with ChatGPT despite knowing almost no javascript. What does this mean? It means my scope as a programmer just changed from Python to every language on earth (sort of), and it’s the same for any piece of knowledge, since ChatGPT can explain things pretty well. So I can access any concept or piece of understanding much more quickly, and there are lots of things Google searches simply don’t work for.