AI and partisan politics
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In the past technology generally threatened workers in one industry while providing benefits to everyone else. I’m not sure we’ve had a single technology that threatened so many jobs across so many industries before.
Also it’s not clear to me that the average Joe sees its benefits.
So I can imagine a broader resistance to it than we’ve seen in the past.
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Today’s Odd Lots podcast (a Bloomberg daily podcast about markets) is called ‘The Politics of AI are about to Explode’. Worth a listen.
They talk about left v right but also intra-right tension between what their guest metaphorically calls ‘the two Ps - populism and Peter Thiel’. Though by the latter he’s really referring to the ‘tech right’ what with Elon being a huge donor, etc.
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Same. About a year ago I was like "no way..." now it's the default I use for quick things. In the last day I've used it for:
- How much oil does my (specific model) snowblower need when I change the oil [did that yesterday]
- Create a blog title graphic (picture) using Gemini for a post I needed to publish for a corporate thing
- What is the best splunk query (in SPL) to do X, Y, and Z...
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@Mik said in AI and partisan politics:
The distillation of the information is wonderful.
No question. Instead of going to 25 sites for comparisons on insurance, one can specify the type of information required, places to include in the search, criteria for review, etc - and instead of one having to search myriad sites, it's there in seconds - in graph form if so requested.
My stereo and audio storage installation - connecting devices from multiple vendors with different interfaces - a nightmare that would have taken forever to sort through - was relatively easy with the help of AI.
It's perhaps even more transformative than the introduction of the PC, the internet, and social media.
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Hard to beat how transformative the PC and internet were, but I guess they're all built upon each other. The PC is the car, the internet are the roads, the social media are the crackheads on the corner asking for money, and AI is the ability to instantaneously map out the most efficient google maps route from A to B to include all traffic dynamics, construction sites, toll roads... i.e., it connect the dots and even suggests better dot connections.
