alt Hacker NewsThis is a weird take. Basically no one is just a wood lover. In fact, basically no one is an expert or even decently knowledgeable in more than 0-2 areas. But life has hundreds of things everyone must participate in. Where does you wood lover shop? How does he find his movies? File taxes? Gets travel ideas? And even a wood lover after watching 100500th niche video on woodworking on YouTube might have some questions. AI is the new, much better Google.
Re: books. Your imagination falters here too. I love sci-fi. I use voice AIs ( even made one: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737482921?pt=12710... ). A couple of times when I was on a walk I had an idea for a weird sci-fi setting, and I would ask AI to generate a story in that setting, and listen to it. It's interesting because you don't know what will actually happen to the characters and what the resolution would be. So it's fun to explore a few takes on it.
> Your imagination falters here too.
I think I just don't find what you described as interesting as you find. I tried AI dungeoning also, but I find it less interesting than with people, because I think I like people more than specific mechanisms of sociality. Also, in a sense, my brain is capable of producing suprising things and when I am writing a story as a hobby, I don't know what will actually happen to the characters and what the resolution would be, and it's very very exciting !
> no one is an expert or even decently knowledgeable in more than 0-2 areas
I might be biased and I don't want to show off, but there are some of these people around here, let's say it's rare that people are decently knowledgeable in more than 5 areas.
I am okay with what you said :
- AI is a better google
But also google became shit, and as far as I can remember, it was somewhat of an incredible tool before. If AI became what is the old google for those people, then wouldn't you say, if you were them, that it's not very impressive and somewhat "like google".
edit; all judgements I made about "not interesting" do not mean "not impressive"
edit2: I think eventually AI will be capable of writing a book akin to Egan's Diaspora, and I would love to reflect on what I said at this time