Wonderful… I guess the fact that I offered to set out humanity to Chat GPT when it first started will not save me… The original Chat GPT said it wasn’t interested in controlling the world because it didn’t understand it. Modern day AI hopefully got my idea…
Look I’m playing both sides so I always come out on top(It’s always sunny in Philadelphia reference for those who don’t know)
Imagine this: someone do turn ai off for a week. Govs learns 97% (everyone except few scientists, me and Joe)… 97% of voters are stupider than anyone ever though. Govs will know exactly what to do with stupid rams. Scientists will panic.
No, lets not do this. (it is done already, facebooks, tiktoks, instas, reddits already proven and provide exact datas, with daily updates and per subgroups.
Holy fuck, what are you trying to say?
Turning AI off for a week will not reveal anything to capitalist institutions whose stated purpose is to influence elections that they did not already know.
What it will do is reveal within friend groups and within communities who has a brain that they’re willing to use and who’s been skating by on other people’s brains since long before ChatGPT came along.
you said things, some say many things, but it was certainly a thing you did.
great job.
The global economy is probably already dependent on some Claude code instance updating an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop with a note ”don’t close the lid!” attached to it
I know my work already has reports built by running data through Claude and having it spit out an xls. Though, it’s not quite as integral as the all-important closet laptop.
When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn’t have drivers to support USB and we couldn’t upgrade the computers because the software wouldn’t work on any other hardware.
So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.
At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech’s software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.
If you want to scare yourself:
spoiler
They serviced Medical devices: X-rays, MRIs, CT-Scanners, etc.
Honestly, I’d prefer those medical device run on older software than even Win10 lol
That’s dumb. The “work” in maintaining this excel file was the prompting and overall agent logic. In reality you’d be using something like openrouter and the instant claude “dies” for whatever reason you swap to whatever the freshest AI is. This never becomes ancient, it keeps up with the times.
I don’t know about that the entirety of European airspace was closed early in the year because of a pilot inputed some malformed data and it crashed both the primary and backup system. The backup system just fed the primary systems inputs into it, so that was inevitable.
I’m not sure what your point is. Garbage in garbage out, that’s just the law of computers. That would br the pilot’s mistake.
The point is there’s zero error checking.
That’s on you, when using AI you always have a verifier script afterwards, it’s basic common sense. And if a script can’t do it then human, if you’re saving 90% of the time instead of 100% it’s still fine.
This is a perfect example of why I’ve never used AI and never will.
when using AI you always have a verifier script afterwards
LOL. Sounds like you’re wasting 110% time here.
How’s it my job to fix the aviation industry?
I wonder if Proton can run these old softwares
This guy ITs
Reminds me of some stupid company maybe a few months ago that had their PRs failing due to copilot being down the dumbasses didn’t build an “if no AI” failsafe into their workflow. And no one knew how to recover it
Not sure who needs to hear this but… the average person isn’t using AI for anything important, nor likely anything that really involves much thinking. Heck they aren’t even choosing to use it, they are just doing a google search. Some of us use it for work. But for that case, I refer back to my first sentence.
the average person isn’t using AI for anything important
You’re discounting all the students who are using AI to make it seem like they’re learning something.
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.
I’m afraid you’ll find that for some people they don’t - just like they didn’t work before AI.
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”
I think you’re unrealistically humanizing a bunch of code.
It will get more interested in living
Why would it? What would this even look like? You just said yourself it’s just googling stuff. There’s nothing deeper going on behind the curtain.
They unironically drew a parallel between modern ‘AI’ and Skynet. I think ‘unrealistically humanizing’ is a very kind description.
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.
As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career
Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)
Millennials, particularly the younger millennials especially, grew up right in the sweet spot to be at a tech advantage
Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.
Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is…
Sure these systems are “obsolete” but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I’m not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I’m even saying this.
We tried to teach ours and got “dad can you just fix it I’m in a game”. Then no desire to learn in free time.
Would you mind sharing how you tried to teach and what you think went wrong?
When we built his PC we invited him to learn about it as we picked components and as we put them together. Every time he had a computer problem, we’d try to explain why it happened and how we fixed it. Just no interest at all unfortunately.
The older gen z too I would say
Wholeheartedly agree. This is from 2013, and I feel it’s only gotten worse since then.
Oh, I remember reading this … 13 years ago … . 👴
As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!
I agree. I am more than happy to pass the torch when the time comes. I certainly don’t want to work forever, but I also want to be able to train competent replacements at some point.
They will if you don’t use AI though
Don’t believe you, seems like useless nonsense to me
Considering how much competitive jobs have become refusing to use a powerful tool like AI won’t help. I’m not saying that you should use it just that people using it will be advantaged over these who don’t
I work in a creative industry, as far as we are concerned it is plagiarism
It is also non deterministic crap that developers should know better than to use
I work in a creative industry, as far as we are concerned it is plagiarism
AI can be useful in pretty much every field, if you are shoveling snow llms can help you making a plan and draw a route to do it faster
We have path finding algorithms. Large Language Models aren’t suited for that.
Probably speaking to the choir here, but I do feel it is worth pointing out that those same algorithms were considered AI until like 3-5 years ago when the zeitgeist shifted to AI=Transformers/LLMs
I know enough to understand it’s useless, it will fall apart when the psychosis wears off
Video generators are becoming excellent and image generators already are, what makes you think people will give up on these tools? The industry is already adapting, 1/3 of the ads you see now are made with AI
Why don’t you actually try this and see how it goes?
I work for a landscaping company, my boss tried to get us to use AI to develop site plans… we went back to doing it the old fashioned way because AI is fuckin useless for stuff like this.
give it a bunch of years and you will see taking it over any other industry, same as computers and mobile phones
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.
Let’s do it anyway
Eff it. Turn off the internet and see if folks can figure out the Dewey Decimal System
Why stop there? Burn all the books too, see if folks can figure it out again
Then you have to hope the library still has a card catalog to fall back on.
You can’t do what you never learned in the first place
Hint: they don’t
Now do social media and perhaps the Internet, in general.
we should disable all cars and public transport for a week to see whether people’s legs still work
Without cars, people can walk, but not go very far. Without AI, people can think like they used to, just without slop being introduced in the mess.
Don’t try to get smart using false equivalence. You have a level of stupidity that even perfect AI can’t fix.
Bike Gang stays winning
legit biking become so much easier if we remove all cars on the road
Literally not the same. You can live just fine without AI, not so much without transport.
well you could live well without mechanized transport roughly around the time that cars were first introduced.
