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Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Can you fix your own car? If your refrigerator fails, can you fix that too? How about medical conditions, are you able to treat any and all of those? Prepare any kind of meal? Assemble a wooden cabinet from raw materials? Weld and cut metal? Sew clothing, plant a garden, paint a picture, play a musical instrument?

There's always things that people are good at and other things that they're not good at. We live in a civilization where we specialize in things because it's impossible to learn everything that needs to be done. You think you're good at troubleshooting computer problems, and that's a fine thing to be good at. Other people are not good at it. They need help with it. That doesn't make them "stupid." It makes them people who've chosen to focus on other things.

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Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Except for the medicine stuff, I am confident I would be able to do all of those things actually, given a bit of time for research and enough motivation. Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.

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- FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Except for the medicine stuff
  
  So aside from the things that you can't do, you can do anything.
  
  Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don't care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.
  
  I bet you Google it.
  
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  - Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Why yes, I do frequently google things. Searching for proper tutorials and official documentation for technical subjects is a more intelligent thing to do than asking an LLM to do all my thinking for me. As for the actual humans I was talking about there, I meant bringing my car in to be serviced by a mechanic as an example, if I learned the mechanic working on my car was just following instructions provided by chatGPT I would be fucking livid.
    
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    FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Okay? I'm not sure how any of this is detracting from the point I'm making here. You can't do everything yourself. Nobody can do everything for themselves, society is too complicated now. So we pick the things we're good at. Not being good at troubleshooting your PC doesn't make you "stupid".
    
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