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I feel like the AI industry did this to themselves by absolutely shoving it down our throats at every possible chance they had.
AI in general isn’t a bad technology, it just has very limited use cases where it’s actually good at things. Most things it’s used for are things it’s bad at. Kind of like using a steam locomotive to clean the bottom of your pool.
I’ve seen people literally use it as find and replace 🤦♂️
I did that today. It went something like this:
“See the naming conventions at the beginning of the script. Apply all the rules to all the non-conforming variable names and the new custom function we made earlier.“
There were like 100 changes here and there, and I just didn’t feel like doing all that work manually.
In the early days of the steam engine’s success, what helped it find an economic footing was the need to pump water from coal mines. At the time, logistics of transporting things over large distances were difficult, so having the coal supply on-site was an obvious benefit. So while using a steam engine to pump water from a pool would be quite archaic and inefficient, but at least for emptying the pool, it could technically be used.
Of course, a locomotive moving the engine around would be entirely impractical for pumping a somewhat steady stream. Chlorinated water would also make for poor steam, I imagine.
I guess driving a scrubber back and forth would be possible, but I could do that more efficiently by hand. I drink less water, eat less coal, don’t require rails and skilled operators and I’m easier to transport to the site. I’m not sure how the carbon footprint for a human compares to that of extracting and processing iron, but it won’t be favourable if at least one human is involved.
The scrubber couldn’t be as large and heavy though. If you need a heavy scrubber, you’d also need a powerful motivator. That’s where a steam engine might have an edge over me: sheer power output.
To match that, you’d have to employ and pay multiple people. So if the steam engine’s rent seems cheaper than that…
There are lists of technology which will work for AI such as programmer. which require analytics of AI and work with that frame of mind.
We were shown the list in my school 15 years ago and told “some day soon AI will take these jobs, so choose wisely” with a rough percentage for each job.
Okay, let AI take my job then, that would happen anyway. Jobs have been gouged ever since society has mutated apart from its basic building blocks. I at least want peace of mind!
Every 3 days those goofs are telling us some new BS (it is good enough to improve itself, it is too powerful, it is whatever so watch out because now it is better at everything) only for it to…not happen. They try to scare people into giving up and giving in. Of course people don’t like it. There is nothing sadder than an individual or company declaring that they like AI.
Good, but it’s still not enough
“people have turned against AI” is an … interesting framing, when the same article says that they’re using AI more than ever. I can’t quite believe that the bosses of ~60% of workers are forcing them to use it.
I guess it’s about AI being shaved down throat for financial reasons. I use AI as I perceive it as a tool among other tools, but I also I switched to Linux because I don’t want AI to be shoved down my throat.
I can’t quite believe that the bosses of ~60% of workers are forcing them to use it.
Ummm…except, they are. On top of the fact that AI is being implemented internally, all across most businesses…everything you do as a consumer, is also being integrated with AI. We are all literally “being forced to use it”. In most cases, you can’t even opt-out.
The main issue is that these Parasites can’t hide their glee at replacing as many workers as possible, so they can keep all those paychecks as profit. They are pushing it hard, but we can all see that they don’t give a rats ass about it being better, or making life easier, it’s ONLY about how AI is going to boost profits through the stratosphere, and make them all Trillionaires.
And it’s OBVIOUS to EVERYBODY that’s the PRIMARY advantage of AI. When these jackals start extolling the great societal benefits at a graduation ceremony, it’s like the Groom telling his wife on the wedding night how fuckable all the bridesmaids were, and then wondering why his new Bride is pissed off at him.
I have ADHD and OCD, which means writing reports, proposals, and even simple emails is very difficult for me in a number of ways. For the last year or so, I tell ChatGPT what I want to say and I work to polish or complete what it gives me, and out comes exactly what I wanted.
I’m not able to do that stuff myself. I’m just not mentally able to do it by myself. I strongly support ChatGPT and will continue to use it as as I can.
