u/terraica

I'm sure anyone who has watched the movie as much as I have knows what I am talking about.

I am ... not obsessed but... preoccupied with this female actor who, during the initial 'Since U been gone' audition, is wearing a grey cardigan with coloured stripes. She has an amazing voice, so I assumed she was one of the minor-character bellas.

However, my limited research has suggested that this 'Ashley' role was in fact recast and that the audition "Ashley" was a day player or similar, and her identity is not widely known.

If her identity or professional persona is known, I would love to know who she is, because, obviously, her few seconds of vocals in this movie still resonate with me so if she has other performances, I would love to know about them.

Thanks and goodbye. (Aca-bye? No. Never mind.)

To clarify, this is specifically about AI search helpers. Not AI personas that people form deep emotional connections to, not AI 'artists' and the 'art' they create, not even more tuned, 'premium' AI apps. Just the basic AI results that you get when you do a simple search on Google or similar (including the new 'AI Mode' that happens automatically).

Back in the day (ie maybe 6 months to a year ago), I was staunchly anti-AI, because I felt like it made people lazy.

For example: What is the point in creating an AI essay on the French Revolution? The student is supposed to be learning about the French Revolution, not how to write a perfect AI prompt. (Although the latter is arguably a far more relevant skill going forward, but that's beside the point.)

However, now that I've used AI a bunch (encouraged by my employer, and also because every search now triggers AI), I've come to an updated conclusion:

Yes, AI does make people lazy, but predominantly in ways where the extra effort is unnecessary work.

For example: Compiling tables of information, cross-referencing, other data-based "busy work". (Although, I have witnessed AI doing some remarkably illogical things while compiling 'simple' tables of information. So... part marks.) ButvAI does perform well when it comes to providing factual information.

This is probably a 'duh' statement for a lot of people, like, obviously AIs are good at data-crunching and facts.

But it's true. Lately, I've been using the AI search to give me a break down on the impact of certain strategic plays on the series 'Survivor'. Yes, I can search for this information myself (and did, for several instances) but just asking an AI for the breakdown is much easier. Also, this is "safe" information to trust an AI to provide. It's all factual, and even if the AI misreports a fact, the misinformation has zero impact on anything.

So, I've come to the realization that AI can be useful: there are definitely situations where it cuts down on busy-work and can generally be relied upon to provide accurate information. But I still think it's worth reiterating what AIs are NOT good at, which, in my opinion, includes anything that is open to interpretation, anything with 'grey area', and any topics where even YES and NO have massive amounts of overlap.

In conclusion, I rescind my previous 'hate' of AI, but I do encourage the fact-checking of AI, and for everyone to avoid over-reliance on AI, particularly when it comes to squishy topics.

(Aside: In regards to the impact of AI on the environment, I'm still CON. Very CON. But since I have no control over what these mega-corporations do, I'll just sadly accept that the environment is probably screwed.)