Skip to content

Details

The Humanist Association of Toronto
http://www.humanisttoronto.ca/

Every Saturday we meet on Zoom to discuss a topic decided upon the previous week. These are topics of humanist interest, from a humanist perspective.

The topic of the discussion will be decided in a prior meeting, usually two weeks in advance. This week’s topic is: Are you using the AI Genie? Introduced by Richard Dowsett.

On November 30, 2022 ChatGPT 3.5 was released to the general public and within days, the 1 million download mark was reached. 40 months later there are 1.5 billion weekly users of generative AI apps and ChatGPT alone processes 2.5 billion prompts DAILY.
Generative AI is the swiss-army knife of applications. It is a tool that can be applied to almost every human endeavour - knowledge, skill acquisition, research, creativity, organization, automation. It's your Genie to help you do whatever it is you do.
And currently, this Genie is largely free of charge. Of ChatGPT's 900 million weekly users, only 50 million are paid subscribers. And even if you don't sign up, AI is being injected into every other app you might use - search engines, spreadsheets, word processing, email etc.
So the question remains: Are you using the AI Genie?
Questions:

  1. Are you a regular AI user? Where do you use it? What do you do?
  2. If not, why not? Ethical objections? Too daunting? No use case?
  3. Have you made an effort to learn how to use AI apps? How? By experimentation? Watching YouTube videos? Comparing notes with others?
  4. What is your favourite way to use AI?
  5. If you are an AI paid subscriber, what is the biggest difference between free and paid versions?
  6. Is there a fear you have associated with using AI?
  7. AI hallucinations occur when a generative AI model produces output that is factually incorrect, nonsensical, or unfaithful to the provided source, yet presents it with high confidence. Does this AI feature concern you? How do you account for it?

Meet our diverse group, trade perspectives in a free and open forum and learn from others as they learn from you!

BTW: don't be concerned if there are not many RSVP’s. Many HAT members attend regularly but don’t sign up on Meetup. Our online meetings have been very popular with 20-30 attendees.

NOTE: The HAT Forum adheres strictly to the City of Toronto Policy on Non-Discrimination (http://www.the519.org/public/content/policy-files/The519SpaceUsePolicy.pdf)

Our Website (http://www.humanisttoronto.ca/)

You may also like