AI can’t be all that bad. The problem I’m always seeing with AI is a double-edged sword. You have corporations shoving AI in just about everything, treating it like its a cure for cancer and that really rubs people the wrong way. Then, on a more of a society level, you’ve got people who use AI for an assortment of things like making art with AI and still accredit themselves as an artist to people who treat AI like a therapist when it is not advised to.
However, I’ve found some benefits with AI. For example, I’m chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It’s helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.
Converting PDFs into HTMLs or RFT/TXT docs witout OCR typos. Until recently, it was almost impossible to turn a scanned book from PDF into doc or TXT, because the output of copying and pasting or converting using PDF tools was illegible. AI now can do a “deep AI seek” (look it up) into the texts.
I am converting a textbook into an audiobook in HTML (paragraph highlighting with manual sync) with an integrated popup glossary into every word (with grammar and meaning) and dictionary lookup if clicked.
Besides, as an apendix to each chapter, I add all the explanations from the book.
I took the ~4 500 words of the book and asked for a grammar analysis and meaning lookup to create a glossary. The IA joyfully skipped many terms but that is something I will fix when each chapter is finished. Now I am being punished with waiting despite having paid $20.