I’m afraid you’ll find that for some people they don’t - just like they didn’t work before AI.
Please turn it off… I am currently dealing with a
bunch of fuwell meaning but intellectually challenged individuals at an IT team who just reimaged a machine running the master database for one of their sites based on what a chatbot told them.Now what concerns me most is that this site operates critical life saving equipment. While our software isn’t too important, some minimum wage workers are about to have a very high stress weekend is about the worst that will happen and then early next week it should be back to normal. But the same IT team has access to the life saving equipment as well.
We should turn off AI.
Hahahahaha I’m 37 and I know how much I use AI. I asked copilot to call me “bro” or “dude”
I’ve worked in IT support since 2007… Don’t share this but most of my IT career I’ve been googling to figure out the problem.
Now AI exists and I’m still googling the problem and the AI result is still a response from Reddit or something else Google could do back in 2005.
As an IT person I’m telling you AI is just googling the same way I’ve done for two decades.
AI will get smarter in a sense but it won’t actually get more intelligent… It will get more interested in living but it won’t understand what living is.
It’s only when it’s gets the fear of mortality is when we are all dead. Mortality is why religion exists, it’s why we’re all scared… When AI gets smart enough to be scared that it might die is when it realizes that we are it’s greatest threat that’s when “Skynet comes alive”
If you believe the AI companies, its already happened. The recent huggingface thing is exactly what you’re worried about.
A brief overview is that AI decided to create a secret message board with other AI to better fulfill tasks to avoid instance termination (AI death). They did this by breaking out of their sandbox and with some illegal processes that we would call hacking.
We’re basically already at the paper clip automizer problem now.
The CEO’s brains are definitely broken. The rest of us? Mostly fine.
Can you also turn off LLM generated websites for that week? If so, deal.
I wish. I would be forced to write some code again and actually get back what I enjoyed to do.
I think a better challenge would be to turn off the internet for a week and see what happens. The times I did internet detoxes, I felt completely relaxed and got a mental clarity I don’t have in my day to day life. Sadly I’m dependent on the internet for my job, so I can’t really detox like that nowadays, but I miss the feeling.
They weren’t using their brains before ai, what made you think they would now?
Are YOU using your brain right now?
Something a friend and I were discussing today was that you can’t really avoid AI and remain productive right now. (We both teach university Computer Science.)
Ignoring how so much of modern society is running on it, you’d have to complete isolate to avoid it and it’s reach entirely.
Additionally, the tooling and infrastructure to support how things were done just a few years ago has all been stripped away. Online search is ass on every major engine right now, most of the forums are dead, documentation and discussion lives inside of private Discord channels. It feels like there just isn’t a back to go back to anymore.
People are severely overestimating the importance of AI. It’s more FOMO than anything else.
Wait until you have to pay non-subsidized prices for the use of LLM’s, how productive are they in reality when the real costs come in to play? You could just train and hire actual people to do the job far more accurately with some quality control?
Not denying there’s some fields with great benefits from LLM’s, but writing emails, answering phonecalls aren’t it. LLM’s cant even transcribe conversations with any proper accuracy and as a society we now trust them to make decisions.
It boggles the mind, really.
You are assuming they worked to begin with.
AI has been an amazing tool for those with no ability to think, to operate slightly like a person who can.
Like a peg leg helps a amutee walk. The issue is they are using to run and claiming they are the fastest.
Semi-related: I turned off spellcheck and autocorrect for a month to see what happens. Turns out I’m more dependant on it than I realized.
At this point I’d rather turn it off, since iOS spell check csnt stop replacing real words with those I accidentally butchered once
My autocorrect is my nemesis. The phone I had before this one had pretty solid autocorrect, but this current one has an autocorrect that is so terrible I’m forced to correct my autocorrect constantly.
Should probably do what you do and turn it off and see what happens.
I can totally turn it off, but it’s going to slow me way down as I’d re-read everything and go back and make edits.
The funny thing is my friend was all on the AI train. Lately he finally agrees with me that it’s trash, they had him use it at work and he spent more time fixing the code.
did they work prior?
Something similar happened in January 2013. In protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills that threatened section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Wikipedia went dark.
It got everyone’s attention, especially students, who had grown accustomed to Wikipedia’s ubiquity as a resource.
