I recently had a productive conversation, with Google AI, about cosmology. Experts, in the field, usually don't have the time to converse with me. AI can discuss and critique some of my educated speculation on various topics. I have plenty of friends, but most "professionals" just don't have time to deal with lengthy conversations outside their limited circles of colleagues.
I have also used AI to answer questions and do some fact checking. It seems to be able to cut through piles of reading, saving me time, to answer a question.
I've had it critique some of my writing for clarity as well. I'm old enough to remember a time when there wasn't even spellcheckers.
My spelling was terrible before spellcheckers. Teachers would say that evaluating my work was like looking at intelligence through the dirty window of poor spelling and sloppy writing. Even the typewriter has been an innovation.
I'm sure AI has it's downsides as well.
As for power consumption, I'd guess that systems, like Google, don't have to think up an answer each time a question is asked. People, like me, who have speculative ideas, are asking these questions all the time. The system, probably finds it's answers to the questions and repeats the answer it's already given to others. There are millions of people asking questions all the time.
My speculations, about things in cosmology and other topics, are not necessarily unique. I'm always learning, even before AI, that others, including "experts," have come up with the same ideas before.
Much of the value of tools, such as AI, social media and even our transportation devices, is about how we are using them. We can be using them for harm or for good.
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