I really like something like GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat, because they help with boilerplate and simple functions, as well as lower the barrier for doing some exploratory work and iterating. Something like Phind is even better in those cases where you care about looking into the actual sources that are returned, as opposed to just testing the output for your needs.
I also like general purpose chat/writing/instruct models and they're a nice curiosity, even the image generation ones are nice for either some placeholder assets, texture work, or some sometimes goofy art. HuggingFace has some nice models and the stuff that people come up with on Civitai is sometimes cool! Video generation is really jank for now, I wonder where we'll be in 20 years.
Overall, I'm positive about "AI", but maybe that's because I seek it out and use it as a tool, as opposed to some platform shoving it down my throat in the form of a customer service bot that just throws noise at me while having no actual power to do anything. There are use cases that are pleasant, also stuff like summarizing, text prediction, writing improvements, but there are also those that nobody asked for.
I also like general purpose chat/writing/instruct models and they're a nice curiosity, even the image generation ones are nice for either some placeholder assets, texture work, or some sometimes goofy art. HuggingFace has some nice models and the stuff that people come up with on Civitai is sometimes cool! Video generation is really jank for now, I wonder where we'll be in 20 years.
Overall, I'm positive about "AI", but maybe that's because I seek it out and use it as a tool, as opposed to some platform shoving it down my throat in the form of a customer service bot that just throws noise at me while having no actual power to do anything. There are use cases that are pleasant, also stuff like summarizing, text prediction, writing improvements, but there are also those that nobody asked for.