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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I work in remote sensing, AI, and feature detection. However, I work almost exclusively for private industry. Generally in the natural hazard, climate mitigation space.

Lately, I've been using it to statistically summarize big batches of publications into tables that I can then analyze statistically (because the LLMs don't always get it right). I don't have the time to read like that, so it helps me build an understanding of a space without having to actually read it all.

I think the hand wringing is largely that. I'm not sure its going to matter in 6 months to a year. We're at the inflection (like pre-alpha go) where its clear that AI can do this thing that was thought to be solely the domain of humans. But it doesn't necessarily do it better than the best of us. We know how this goes though. It will surpass, and likely by a preposterous margin. Pandoras box is wide open. No closing this up.