I've been retired for 4 years now, and AI had not been in my realm. Lucky me!
I see it as a 2-edged sword, so many fantastic benefits, and so many fantastic ways to abuse it to Grift/Steal/Scam. My official position is that it MUST BE REGULATED.
I digress...
My observations on people close to me (ex husband, for example), seem to rely on it intensely! It is kind of scary. He is a writer, and was using it initially for historical information, but now I hear him asking it every question. He called me for tech support, which I gladly give, until he says: But Chappy (or whatever it is called) said to do this and this and this... I was like: Do you want me to help you or ChatGPT? It was funny.
It turns out the ChatGPT info was too general for too many different platforms. Once I got him to put that down, we figured out the issue he had. It made me feel useful again. (a good thing!)
So, I feel that using it is kind of inevitable, but I think that the level of use should be considered. (it should not be a crutch for using your own brain or even google)
So, I ended up having to use it myself recently, and here are my observations:
I had a friend advise me to use it to look into a legal issue involving property ownership and California's Medicaid (MediCAL) to get some answers I needed about laws changing, and so that was my first entry into actually using it for something.
The first answer it gave me was too general, and once I narrowed down the legal issue I was trying to determine it gave me the correct answer that I had already understood to be the new law.
But I felt better after getting that confirmation.
Overall, my advice (from an old IT person) use it with a grain of salt, and don't forget how to use your brain.
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