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I feel like the AI industry did this to themselves by absolutely shoving it down our throats at every possible chance they had.
AI in general isn’t a bad technology, it just has very limited use cases where it’s actually good at things. Most things it’s used for are things it’s bad at. Kind of like using a steam locomotive to clean the bottom of your pool.
I've seen people literally use it as find and replace 🤦♂️
I can count on one hand the number of jobs or functions I've seen people try to get AI to do that isn't already done better by a hard-coded program or an Excel spreadsheet.
I'm surprised that wasn't tried on the reflecting pool in D.C. "We love the old-timey trains, don't we, folks? And now were going to use one in the most amazing way the world has ever seen!"
There are lists of technology which will work for AI such as programmer. which require analytics of AI and work with that frame of mind.
We were shown the list in my school 15 years ago and told "some day soon AI will take these jobs, so choose wisely" with a rough percentage for each job.
Okay, let AI take my job then, that would happen anyway. Jobs have been gouged ever since society has mutated apart from its basic building blocks. I at least want peace of mind!