And cars were worse for physical health yet here we are.

I suspect you may be part of the crowd I’m addressing this to but progress is progress and you can’t uninvent shit and you can’t predict adoption.

As it stands “AI” is here to stay and no movement of luddites is going to change that. Globally “we” are saying it’s valuable.

What we are lacking right now is control over the speed and direction.

Going back to the car analogy this is why licenses exist, and registration, and laws. This too will come with AI only when the problem becomes so big or so dangerous to necessitate it. I suspect we will be there soon. Youth unemployment is fucked everywhere and only getting worse.

That’s future CEOs problem

Personally speaking as an agnostic person it disturbs me we are so quick to decide we will play God without having a long serious adult conversation about if we should play God.

Pragmatically I agree it’s going to happen because I know humanity too well but that said it’s not something I would ever personally partake in at least at this current point in time.

Think less abusive and more not open to put up with delusional bullshit? 🤷‍♂️

We do both agree it isn’t black and white. I think a lot of AI is bullshit and needs to go away but a lot of it is freaking amazing. Just Friday I solved 2 production issues without needing to engage a vendor because I was able to use their AI agent. I told my boss I spent about 3 hours over 3 days as opposed to 7 days working with the vendor.

That’s a very real and very substantial cost savings.

I have a coworker that built a series of copliot skills to effectively automate the creation of artifacts in a bunch of GitHub repos using existing standards. AI writes the code. Quick validation and push to dev. Run QA tests and deploy to PROD. What may have taken me days can now be done in hours.

I have coworkers who use it in their day to day communications with HR, PAC and Legal on sensitive topics not just to write it but also interpret what they receive.

Does it cost too much? I think that’s still up on the air for our company that will show up in a year or two.

Outside of all that, today I was using AI to take pictures of plants to see what is toxic to my cats and checking the references as required.

I’m saying all this as someone who has serious concerns with AI and the companies behind it. I think governments need to implement harsher laws and bleed these companies dry. I think there should be government owned and run AI models and how to power them needs to be addressed as does the environmental cost. Just like the bullshit Bitcoin conversations a decade ago.

But all of this can’t be stopped. Progress is progress and I don’t believe any conspiracy that states this is some shadow elite pushing it down our throats. Globally we see the value. It’s becoming widespread adopted globally.

🤣🤣🤣 best of luck!

Better than those who bury their heads in the sand? 🤷‍♂️

Yes and do you have the overwhelming support of the rest of the planet?! Lol. Fucking delusional.

“Seize the means of production” energy. Great in theory but we live in the real world.

I won’t disagree however the demographic here I imagine skews younger which then makes me wonder about where the truth lies. I can only speak from my experience and I see everyone my age and younger at work overwhelmingly embracing it for different purposes.

My big concern is there seems to be a drop off at 30 on the sheer fact of there are literally no kids to be found at my work. They may be adopting it, they don’t have jobs lol

I’d argue those around you are doing it wrong. I’ve seen far from this.

I think too many people are too dug in on the fallacy that real value isn’t being generated by AI. It is. I see it every day at work.

I get that it’s scary and frustrating and I get that jobs are going to be lost. We (royal) need to do better and demand better from our governments.

I said elsewhere but the genie is out of the bottle and we can’t wish it away. You either acknowledge that and want to build a sustainable future with it, or you are a luddite digging in their heels on a lost cause.

Back to the farming analogy on the pod he explained that it was a similar groundswell of protest because jobs were disappearing and people were rightly up in arms. But here we are 100+ years later. The jobs never came back. Tractors are here to stay.

I am a happy outsider then lol

Dumb as a rock and outright fucking lies sooooo much! Hahahha

Maybe it is human? Lol

I was talking with a coworker Friday laughing at the absurd confidence which it lies and you show it receipts and it responds “oh yes you’re right I was excluding that in my response” like fuck off lol

Or younger kids who rightfully are pissed it’s taking entry level jobs away. I’m extremely sympathetic at my 48 years but my god people the genie is out of the bottle and we can’t wish it away.

Being optimistic, I see UBI on the horizon. It’s absolute suicide if we delay too long.

Where pray tell was I being positive about it?

Ok?

Honest to god I wonder if the detractors have jobs? I as well use AI at work for various things and it’s amazing. I have gone from hours or days of effort to minutes to hours of effort. I use it for everything from coding, troubleshooting issues and wordsmithing emails or documentation.

Like you I validate everything.

Hard disagree. There was a pod I was listening to where the argument was AI is akin to the farming revolution. A coworker this week said the steam engine may be valid too.

The point is, AI is a train roaring down the tracks. You can’t stop it. You might be able to slow it down at best but it’s here and it’s heading in the direction of the future.

The worst thing you can do is dig in your heels and pretend the train away. I acknowledge the train and will use the train but it concerns me.

Ok for arguments sake then how much is actually tied to a person’s ability to self-respect and grow? I imagine it’s far less common than we may think?

How much of this do you think can be tied back to good parents?

Because as humans we are insanely stupid. I think we all know the answer. Money is why Arizona. We don’t do what’s right. We do what is cheap and effective. It just happens that sometimes that is right too.