Anyone trying to work with AI should think about this simple question: Can you think of a single time, ever, when AI actually had a positive effect on human lives? I'm not talking about increasing profits, building hype for a company. Actual improvement of life.
It's used for surveillance (tyranny), automation (poverty), astroturfing (lies) and deepfakes (more lies and pornography). but what good thing has it ever been used for? AI proponents will tell you it's "exciting", "disruptive" or just "it's the future!" but they can't name any actual good purpose for it.
The actual purpose of the modern AI industry is replacing and eventually eliminating humans. It's anti-natalist, it's Malthusian, it's purely evil. Anyone else getting into it should focus on using at as countermeasure and deterrent. Anything else just plays into their hands.
AI can be beneficial in design, NASA uses it to generate omnidirectional antennas
Your whining is just an echo of the previous generation when they panicked about the technological boom that displaced their lazy asses. Don't be a boomer. Technology always evolves, and those who evolve with it will survive because they will be exponentially more efficient than those who hold themselves back.
AI is automating our information processing skills, just as the calculator automated our arithmetic skills. Like any powerful tool, it needs to be mastered so that it doesn't become your master.
Want some positive examples? If AI is the brain and robotics are the muscles, it can drive for you, it can monitor your property and assets for you, it can analyze your behavior and coach you to change it (according to your goals), it can cook for you, it can farm your food, it can now write basic programs for you, it can design mechanical structures for you. What would you do if you were some rich ass hat that hired servants to do all these things for you? What would you do with your time?
Your fear isn't that AI is taking over these jobs that you mistakenly thought would be forever human jobs, your fear is that you don't know what to do with yourself with the extra time you'll have.
There must be a disconnect here because I never mentioned jobs or anything like that pertaining to AI. I don't have fear so much as apprehension, and that apprehension is about things far more existential.
Not worried about losing my job to AI. I have skills AI won't replace in my lifetime.
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