Something a friend and I were discussing today was that you can’t really avoid AI and remain productive right now. (We both teach university Computer Science.)
Ignoring how so much of modern society is running on it, you’d have to complete isolate to avoid it and it’s reach entirely.
Additionally, the tooling and infrastructure to support how things were done just a few years ago has all been stripped away. Online search is ass on every major engine right now, most of the forums are dead, documentation and discussion lives inside of private Discord channels. It feels like there just isn’t a back to go back to anymore.
They weren’t using their brains before ai, what made you think they would now?
Are YOU using your brain right now?
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?
you said things, some say many things, but it was certainly a thing you did.
great job.
Semi-related: I turned off spellcheck and autocorrect for a month to see what happens. Turns out I’m more dependant on it than I realized.
I can totally turn it off, but it’s going to slow me way down as I’d re-read everything and go back and make edits.
True. I’m also using it a little bit to much. And also a little problem for me. Using Spellcheck for two Languages.
did they work prior?
I’ve been hoping that something like this would happen for what feels like too long at this point.
The funny thing is my friend was all on the AI train. Lately he finally agrees with me that it’s trash, they had him use it at work and he spent more time fixing the code.
Something similar happened in January 2013. In protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills that threatened section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Wikipedia went dark.
It got everyone’s attention, especially students, who had grown accustomed to Wikipedia’s ubiquity as a resource.
You are assuming they worked to begin with.
AI has been an amazing tool for those with no ability to think, to operate slightly like a person who can.
Like a peg leg helps a amutee walk. The issue is they are using to run and claiming they are the fastest.
oh okay
Seeing a sharp decrease in productivity, I’m sure they would take it as a sign that AI is effective.
Go ahead, i still haven’t used any of them and i would be happy to see them gone.
This reminds me of people in the past making fun of these using computers and calling them dorks and nerds. Personally i’m much concerned with people who use memes and pictures as a form of debate
using media to convey ideas is concerning, using the lying machine that destroys the planet, good actually!
The problem is the medium of memes doesn’t convey ideas well, if at all, and helps promote thought-terminating ideologies and ignorant partisanship. If you can fit the idea into a meme, it’s probably oversimplified to the point of uselessness, and if the meme relies on you already knowing the real idea, it’s not informing anyone of anything.
using media to convey ideas is concerning,
Using only media and memes to convey ideas looks indeed concerning to me, take a look at https://sopuli.xyz/ frontpage: most of it it’s memes and there’s not a single text thread
using the lying machine that destroys the planet
You can run AI locally on your computer and it will destroy the planet as much as a playing a videogame would do.
Eff it. Turn off the internet and see if folks can figure out the Dewey Decimal System
Then you have to hope the library still has a card catalog to fall back on.
Or a digital database that is stored locally, which they really should have.
Why stop there? Burn all the books too, see if folks can figure it out again
You can’t do what you never learned in the first place
So far, so good.
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