I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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    Anything that requires tons of iteration can be done way faster with AI. Finding new chemical formulas for medicine, as an example. It takes a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach, but it’s still more effective than a human.

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          As long as everything gets thrown it’s still brute force, but the reason they use ai for it is because it can throw a lot more a lot faster.

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        I think by broad definitions it can be, yes.

        Think about it. AI is just throwing a ton of sample data in and filtering out the results that are least correct.

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        Presumably in order to determine whether the eg chemical is worth looking at in the first place