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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.
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!
Kind of like using a steam locomotive to clean the bottom of your pool.
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!"
Every 3 days those goofs are telling us some new BS (it is good enough to improve itself, it is too powerful, it is whatever so watch out because now it is better at everything) only for it to...not happen. They try to scare people into giving up and giving in. Of course people don't like it. There is nothing sadder than an individual or company declaring that they like AI.
Our species proved we couldnt even handle the internet or gunpowder.
We know corruption bleeds through and eventually overpowers all good man-made ideas.
When will society genuinely ask themselves if we truly need this stuff to exist and be our best selves?
"people have turned against AI" is an ... interesting framing, when the same article says that they're using AI more than ever. I can't quite believe that the bosses of ~60% of workers are forcing them to use it.
I guess it's about AI being shaved down throat for financial reasons. I use AI as I perceive it as a tool among other tools, but I also I switched to Linux because I don't want AI to be shoved down my throat.
I can't quite believe that the bosses of ~60% of workers are forcing them to use it.
Ummm...except, they are. On top of the fact that AI is being implemented internally, all across most businesses...everything you do as a consumer, is also being integrated with AI. We are all literally "being forced to use it". In most cases, you can't even opt-out.
Some companies literally have AI minimum use quotas and will fire you if you don't use genAI enough
My company just implemented AI directly into our payroll system. Now, instead of looking up our information using the old UI interface, we have an app that's basically just an AI chat bot that we have to ask for information. No more pages to look up...just, "how many vacation hours do I have left?", or "show me my pay stubs for (enter date range here)."
Technically, this makes everyone at our company a part of the statistical group that's "using AI more than ever before", and none of us had a choice in the matter.
It's all seo and marketing.
If you want something connected to honesty you aren't going to find it within this system.
And also... I really don't believe that this Ai marketing and the bubble is actually being used to influence people to accept chatgpt or consumer grade ai product. That's just a front to cover for building ai surveillance data centers. And it's clearly working.
It's as if even the anti Ai side is just a distraction from the bigger issues which probably stem from the lack of honest humanity left within the entire structure we are forced to live within. There are more fundamental, and bigger, fish to fry. But everyone is terrified by the truth of what that would entail. It's like a pre built loop of consumerism and escapism people are trapped in because reality is actually chaos that most people are too scared to live within.