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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Ill be honest, we are asked to use it at work, and ive actually given it a chance, and its helped me maybe 2% of the time. The rest of the time it wasted my time and gave totally wrong answers (which, since I have experience, I was able to recognize as wrong. A less experienced person would be duped, thus the danger.)
Not worth boiling our oceans while we give more money to billionaire scum. Also, embedded ads are coming soon so have fun with that.
I’m curious what kind of task you tried using it for.
I’d argue that the only danger here is an unqualified person holding a job where they rely on AI to do their job for them and don’t know how to verify what is presented to them. They shouldn’t have said job to begin with.
Obviously you need to be skeptical of any information it spits out, but knowing that it can be wrong sometimes, that should help you decide what exactly you want to use it for.
I’m not asking it to do my whole job for me so I can play minesweeper all day. And I’m certainly not asking it to do shit I don’t know anything about; my job doesn’t require me to do things I’m not qualified or experienced with anyway.
A lot of times I’m using it for mundane or repetitive tasks that need to be done. Sometimes I use it to get another perspective on something: “how would you accomplish X, Y, & Z” - sometimes I’ll get a response that makes me think of a solution I otherwise wouldn’t have thought of, other times I get a response that doesn’t really help at all.
It’s just another tool just like Google has been for many years now. You need to know how and what to use it for in order to make it work for you.
As for embedded adds, yea I’m not looking forward to that. At my age I’m used to enshittification ruining everything. But for now, I enjoy having it at my disposal.
Yeah probably. Still not good for new people or interns etc. People believe what it tells them.
I can see it helping in some ways, but for the example you gave id rather talk to an actual human. Its very strange to me to feed my thoughts into a datcenter so it can predict what I want to hear.