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I love AI

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  • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

    I appear to be only one who wants nothing to do with this stuff.

    I feel a bit like an anti-vaxxer when it comes to this tech, except I suspect I'm right and that some of the horror stories people told about vaccines could essentially come true because of AI.

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    @Doctor-Phibes said in I love AI:

    I appear to be only one who wants nothing to do with this stuff.

    I feel a bit like an anti-vaxxer when it comes to this tech, except I suspect I'm right and that some of the horror stories people told about vaccines could essentially come true because of AI.

    I think the existential risk or other sorts of risks remain whether or not you choose to avail yourself of the personal advantages of AI.

    Education is extremely important.

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      For all you luddites, from Apple Computer, Inc., 1987:

      Link to video

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      • HoraceH Horace

        @Doctor-Phibes said in I love AI:

        I appear to be only one who wants nothing to do with this stuff.

        I feel a bit like an anti-vaxxer when it comes to this tech, except I suspect I'm right and that some of the horror stories people told about vaccines could essentially come true because of AI.

        I think the existential risk or other sorts of risks remain whether or not you choose to avail yourself of the personal advantages of AI.

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        @Horace said in I love AI:

        @Doctor-Phibes said in I love AI:

        I appear to be only one who wants nothing to do with this stuff.

        I feel a bit like an anti-vaxxer when it comes to this tech, except I suspect I'm right and that some of the horror stories people told about vaccines could essentially come true because of AI.

        I think the existential risk or other sorts of risks remain whether or not you choose to avail yourself of the personal advantages of AI.

        Yes, clearly. That doesn't mean I need to embrace the soulless machine.

        I did notice at work that a number of the first people using AI were those who I would have privately and quietly describe as "B-players". I daresay in a year or two we'll all be using the fucking thing. I just hate hearing how much better it's going to make my life, when clearly it's not.

        20 years from now nobody will know how to do much of anything other than ask software to solve problems for them.

        I was only joking

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          I can imagine try hard strivers were most excited to adopt the advantage. But for a technical person such as a coder to not use AI at this point would be career suicide.

          Education is extremely important.

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            I have yet to avail myself - voluntarily at least- of the technology. Much prefer to do my own sleuth work sifting and sorting as I have always done in past. Despite my preference, I do not see AI as an existential threat, let alone a risk to civilisation although it could very well end up as a all too convenient crutch for young adults looking to be spoon fed knowledge and too lazy to develop research skills on their own.

            Elbows up!

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              That's my concern as well. It could be a serious blow to inquisitiveness in the species.

              "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                It's not just inquisiviteness, it will lead to nobody being able to actually do anything.

                I know people (OK, I've seen people on the internet) who think that becoming good at Guitar Hero on the Playstation is essentially the same as learning to play a musical instrument. Suno is already trying to persuade us that real creativity is using their bloody software, which is a bit like claiming that Count Franz von Walsegg zu Stuppach is the real creative genius behind Mozart's Requiem.

                I guess I'm filling in for Aqua. I miss that guy.

                I was only joking

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                  The ability to critically think without instantaneous answers or prompts will be a rarity for sure. Teachers have already said it's a very dim future regarding that specific skill.

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                  • 89th8 89th

                    The ability to critically think without instantaneous answers or prompts will be a rarity for sure. Teachers have already said it's a very dim future regarding that specific skill.

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                    @89th said in I love AI:

                    The ability to critically think without instantaneous answers or prompts will be a rarity for sure. Teachers have already said it's a very dim future regarding that specific skill.

                    It's already noticeably harder to find good candidates who don't spend half the day looking at their phones. This isn't going to help, however we've now got software to surf the internet for us, so it won't matter.

                    I was only joking

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                    • 89th8 89th

                      The ability to critically think without instantaneous answers or prompts will be a rarity for sure. Teachers have already said it's a very dim future regarding that specific skill.

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                      @89th said in I love AI:

                      The ability to critically think without instantaneous answers or prompts will be a rarity for sure. Teachers have already said it's a very dim future regarding that specific skill.

                      I’m old enough to remember when elementary schools freaked out about the existence of inexpensive calculators.

                      It’s also typical that people take some time to realize that they don’t need to teach people as if the new ubiquitous technology doesn’t exist.

                      In NY some driver’s road test proctors cover your back up mirror when you parallel park even though they have been mandated in all US cars for a decade.

                      The whole reason we call them illegal aliens is because they’re subject to our laws.

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                        Insightful examples. Maybe it just changes how we prompt for answers but even today when Gemini spits out a long answer I still have to, ugh, read it.

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