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  • Foreigner@lemmy.worldtomovies@lemm.ee•I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expectingEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I think you explained it quite well. I just read the story and was a bit confused by the ending but this clarified it for me.

    Major spoilers ahead! (struggling with the spoiler tag!)

    !spoiler The story reads like she’s in the present and you assume her memories of her daughter are in the past. Then looking back at the language used, she’s describing memories of her daughter with language that indicates it’s in the future, not the past. So it stands to reason that the encounters with the heptapods are in the present and learning their language gives her the ability to ‘see’ the future I assume Gary is her daughter’s father. Just like she mentions of the readers of the Book of Ages, she won’t do anything to change the future even if she knows what’s coming, even if it means a future where her daughter dies young.

  • Foreigner@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•What are your AI use cases?English
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    5 months ago

    A lot of people on Lemmy work in tech so responses are going to lean heavily in that direction. I’m not in tech and if you check my answer to this you’ll have a number of examples. I also know a few people who wanted to learn a new language and asked ChatGPT for a day by day programme and some free sources and they were pretty happy with the results they got. I imagine you can do that with other subjects. Other people I know have used it to make images for things like club banners or newsletters.

  • Foreigner@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•What are your AI use cases?English
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    5 months ago

    I use it like an intern/other team member since the non-profit I work for doesn’t have any money to hire more people. Things like:

    • Taking transcripts of meetings and turning them into neat and ordered meeting minutes/summaries, or pulling out any key actions/next steps
    • Putting together objectives and agendas for meetings based on some loose info and ideas I give it
    • Summarise the key points from articles/long documents I don’t have tome or patience to read through fully.
    • Making my emails sound more professional/nicer/make up for my brainfarts
    • Giving me ideas on how to format/word slides and documents depending on what tone I want to employ - is it meant for leadership? Other team members?
    • Make my writing more organised/better structured/more professional sounding
    • Writing emails in foreign languages with a professional tone. Caveat is I’m fluent enough in those languages to know if the output sounds right. Before AI I would rely on google translate (meh), dictionaries, language forums, etc and it would take me HOURS to write a simple email using the correct terminology. Also helpful to check grammar and sentence structure in ways that aren’t always picked up by Word.
    • I sound more like a robot than an actual robot, so I ask the robot to reword my emails/messages to sound more “human” when the need arises (like a colleague is leaving, had a baby, etc).
    • Bouncing off ideas. This doesn’t always work and I know it doesn’t actually have an opinion, but it helps get the ball rolling, especially if I’m struggling with procrastination.
    • If my sentences are too long for a document, I ask it to shorten/reword and it’s pretty capable of doing that without losing too much of the essence of what I want to get across

    Of course I don’t just take whatever it spits out and paste it. I read through everything, make sure it still sounds more or less like “me”. Sometimes it’ll take a couple of prompts to get it to go where I want it, and takes a bit of review and editing but it saves me literal hours. It’s not necessarily perfect, but it does the job. I get it’s not a panacea, and it’s not great for the environment, but this tech is literally saving my sanity right now.