Enjoyed that.
Thought the point about AI being something that could be going against your evolutionary principles and the comparison with junk food was good.
Probably just another annoying way to sell us stuff in the end.
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Enjoyed that.
Thought the point about AI being something that could be going against your evolutionary principles and the comparison with junk food was good.
Probably just another annoying way to sell us stuff in the end.
No one will have any money to buy junk with because no one's gonna have any work.
Part of me possibly naively hopes we will continue to maintain and create bullshit jobs, that it's useless these rich guys pouring money into investing in AI unless you've got people willing and able to buy it. If they want something to sell they'll need someone to buy it. Though I also acknowledge especially in the short term that what you say is what's probably unfortunately going to happen - and especially to people whose position is vulnerable or precarious. It's not a nice outlook
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We survived and prospered in caves. Well, that's not strictly true, because last time I checked, there weren't that many caves knocking about, but there's a few drawings knocking about in some of the million year old rock formations.
I'm sure we'll be fine. Thenagain though, I'm just waiting for the lunatic in charge of the of the White House to lead us in to WW3, so who gives a crap?
I’m a big fan of it
There is a 3 part documentary on BBC IPlayer about AI with that Hannah Fry, I saw her chatting about it on some show and it freaked me out so I had to put it by, but I haven't got around to watching it yet..
It might just be the same as what you have posted though.
This exactly. I worry for the young people leaving school, and Uni, trying to find their way in the job market.
AI will be the future but right now it’s a bubble.
I don’t even enjoy recreation
Well I do like some nice Belgian style ales and other good beers, that’s about it.
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So much this.
I often think of the internet as: the illusion of connection; the illusion of choice; the illusion of entertainment; the illusion of convenience; just buy stuff. Here's the thing about tech: we're now decades into the 'information age'. Are we all much wealthier? Are we all swimming in free time due to our efficiency levels having been increased so much by the tech and instant communication? Are we happier due to being able to connect with anyone in the world with our interests and views? Are we better informed and smarter due to having information at our fingertips? Are Everton good now? No. So what was it all for? Better access to TV, music and not having to go to shops any more? AI is the same.
I use AI in work. It's good for extracting information quickly, drafting simple documents and suggested clauses and sense-checking. I haaaaaate my job so if there's a tool that'll do some of the work for me I'll take it! I expect it'll do large portions of my job in the future, maybe all of it. Although after doing this job for 17 years now my experience of tech improvements is that the time taken to do a transaction is pretty much the same as it was 17 years ago. The difference is now we do around 20 times the amount of work to achieve the same result and timescales. The tech had added zero value to anyone. I expect the time savings from AI will just be filled by more work meaning nothing will move more quickly.
I use AI at home. Got it to do a weights and diet plan that I've been following since New Year and it's really worked. Probably in the best shape of my life. Nice thing about it is you can tell it "x doesn't work for me" and it'll just change it for an alternative. Got it doing lots of other things too to improve home life and it's decent for that.
Thing I don't understand is that if AI is this amazing powerful tool, why aren't all the resources of it being focused on the major existential problems of the world? We diligently wash and recycle our rubbish yet it requires the yearly energy usage of a house for AI to put Arnie into a Jay and Silent Bob skit. Why isn't it solving the problems that are apparently too complex for us to solve?
Cast iron proof of the downsides here
I hate all the AI slop etc, but you can bet I’m using AI every day to make my job easier, snooze you lose unfortunately.
This is exactly correct.
The tool and technology is fine. It's useful-ish. Indeed, for certain scoped tasks it's fast! I've definitely fixed bugs in codebases I was unfamiliar with faster because of Claude. I mean, I've also seen it try to introduce bugs and security risks because the problem was too complex, or it just hallucinated. And I mean, I probably caught all those in review, right? Right? I have 20 years experience, I'm definitely an infallible code reviewer (I'm not, understanding code changes requires context, to be a good reviewer, you need to know the intent, history, and integration edges of a system, code itself cannot be reviewed safely without that context...which means the repositories more likely to get benefit from AI are also the repositories I'm least likely to feel confident enough to comfortably review its output).
It's really just a new way of interfacing with the internet. No longer scrawl through reddit, stackoverflow, etc. just ask Claude, and Claude basically has a lot of that stuff trained in and an API to access it through natural language. That means it can helped skilled people do their skilled jobs more quickly, or be an onboarding point for people unskilled in a topic.
Just like the internet always has been.
This is not a paradigm shift. This is not net-new stuff. It's a shiny and complex version of search, at least when we're talking about LLMs as AI.
The enormous investment in it is the existential risk, not because it will become Skynet, but because we're tossing hundreds of billions of dollars down this well because hype men have convinced the media and a good chunk of the investment market that the tech is more powerful than it is in reality.
I think I bolded your key point. AI will make MORE of things we really don't need more of. It's very good at MORE things. I can produce all kinds of reports I never did before.
Now, are they useful? Does anyone read them? Or do those get filtered through AI like a dystopian game of telephone? Is communication actually improving, or is it just more corporate bull?
I think it is, but the stuff that really matters, such as pharma and biomechanics etc, still has a long regulatory process.
Plus the stuff like tailored medicines etc, probably only get heard about in the circles where they are being deployed, ie unless you or some one close to you has a suitable cancer we won’t necessarily know of the breakthroughs.
Similar with material sciences, agriculture, supply chain logistics and stuff like that, doesn’t sound especially sexy so doesn’t really get much coverage.
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