Where do you think the content for AI comes from?

I suppose it depends if you use forums to get facts to answer your questions, or to build human connections over time.  I would assume it's the latter for high number of regular names we see on posts, and the former for the less frequent posters.

Is AI capable of true creativity? If not, then forums will always be a case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. If so, then humans are redundant anyway.

Whether AI is able to be creative will have a pretty even split between yes and no camps in public perception, I would guess.  I personally think it can be creative, depends on what defines creativity, which is a deep hole to go down.  But it's the sorts of conversations society needs to be having.  

Why not just ask @peterreader

I don't think AI will replace forums completely. There's always unique questions / situations for which solutions aren't widely findable. Although I don't post much, I visit here most days, and I love reading the thoughts of other humans, and the queries that come in here, and the different solutions proposed to try and solve some of the problems.

On the flipside, many forums / reddit posts (if you count them as a forum) get the same question asked almost everyday - and perhaps AI can take over those kinds of queries. 

Wombat1:

 

Why not just ask @peterreader

 

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MarkM536:

Wombat1:

Why not just ask @peterreader

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xpd:

 

Just talking about AI in the office and got me thinking.....  majority of online forums are "Q + A"..... so now AI can give you answers quickly (and generally accurate), would you still frequent forums ?

 

Or is it more of a social thing for you, visiting and replying to people ?

 

Humans are inherently social animals, but if AI was to take over aspects of being social, would you manage......

 

Food for thought ? Maybe. Maybe not. I'm probably just rambling :D

 

 

 

AI would not make forums redundant, it would kill them.

it would simply fill them with garbage answers and would bury any truth, as you won't be able to tell whats from a person or not.  so people would have no choice to not use them. AI pretending to be millions of people and giving bad info, either by accident or being programmed to.  think how useful that would be to a company.

Wombat1:

 

Why not just ask @peterreader

 

Exactly.

Don't know about forums, but human fronted radio might be on the way out.

https://futurimedia.com/radiogpt/

RadioGPT has developed a process using GPT-4 to run unmanned talkback radio stations, the ones with a USP of interacting with the audience.
"Live, local, and powered by AI, The world’s first localized radio content powered entirely by artificial intelligence."
A major sponsor of RadioGPT is iHeartRadio.

I am slightly more concerned about the human race becoming surplus to AI requirements.

Talk about an echo chamber....!

"Generative AI has the potential to change many aspects of online interaction, but it's unlikely to entirely replace online forums. Online forums serve as platforms for community engagement, discussion, and knowledge sharing, and they have established their own unique place on the internet. While generative AI can augment and enhance forum experiences, it's not likely to replace the fundamental human-to-human interaction that forums facilitate."

Coming from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

Rikkitic:

 

Is AI capable of true creativity? 

 

Hmmm... what's true creativity compared to other creativity?

AI has been able to design an entirely new simple robot, based on two other designs. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/317876-mit-ai-robot-design I'd guess they are different enough that, if someone had decided to apply for a patent of the new design, they wouldn't have been denied based on the pre-existing designs. So I'd say that's true creativity, in the narrow field of simple robot design.

To my mind true creativity is the ability to combine seemingly unrelated things in new and unexpected and unintuitive ways to produce something of value completely different that no-one would have seen coming. A suitably trained AI can produce satisfying 'original' paintings. But could it make the imaginative leap to Jackson Pollock? Could it write On The Road?