In my experience it can really only competently do the 80% that takes 20% of the effort. Brainstorming and planning and gathering data - and even that you have to sift through for accuracy so maybe it saves 10% of the work in the best situations.
The biggest benefit I’ve gotten from AI is that it sometimes enables me to do some things I never would have been able to do with a small budget and a small team. But that didn’t save me any time, maybe even required more time.
I guess “allowed me to do something at all, even if slower and not as high quality” is a benefit. But that seems an underwhelming benefit for something touted as “Ph.D. level assistance”…
Well I didn’t say lower quality, but I wouldn’t say better quality either. My field is pretty subjective so while I was pretty excited about what it enabled, I’m sure there are people who would have preferred the pre-AI version.
In my experience it can really only competently do the 80% that takes 20% of the effort. Brainstorming and planning and gathering data - and even that you have to sift through for accuracy so maybe it saves 10% of the work in the best situations.
The biggest benefit I’ve gotten from AI is that it sometimes enables me to do some things I never would have been able to do with a small budget and a small team. But that didn’t save me any time, maybe even required more time.
I guess “allowed me to do something at all, even if slower and not as high quality” is a benefit. But that seems an underwhelming benefit for something touted as “Ph.D. level assistance”…
Well I didn’t say lower quality, but I wouldn’t say better quality either. My field is pretty subjective so while I was pretty excited about what it enabled, I’m sure there are people who would have preferred the pre-AI version.