Do you use AI?

This.

I once had some people turn up for a project. They were over an hour late and got key details wrong which necessitated me redoing what I was doing. I was furious and I let them know it.

My boss said she'd contact their line manager to stop this from happening again. The next day I got an apology so that was the matter done and dusted as far as I was concerned. Next week, my boss shows me a draft email that is several paragraphs long. I ask if it was ChatGPT and she said that it was. She couldn't even be bothered to write a simple email asking this lot to be punctual and get their details sorted.

We've handed our societies, our countries and the planet to these techbros and all they care about is enacting some kind of technofeudalist agenda.

I find AI extremely powerful and it will be transformative. I am using agents now to simplify my job.

In time it'll be able to do all of your job.

I am fully aware I have been using it for sometime. Although I have disabled predicting text as I find its more a pain then a help.

There is a difference between auto correcting my sh*tty grammer and doing my job for me whilst conjuring up fake essays.

For … reasons … I've been delving deeply this past year into the history of textile manufacture and distribution, and the parallels with the "information technology" revolution are quite remarkable. I think that gives a good pointer as to how things will evolve in respect of AI.

Once we've got over the hype, services will settle into two broad categories - quality applications that are used by well-trained personnel to produce quality material, albeit in limited quantity ; and a massive flood of cheap crap that's bought by the consumerist masses because they seem hard-wired to give their meagre revenue to millionaire tech bros.

AI will never take my job (needs opposable thumbs, for a start) but I've watched one of my professional colleagues hand her brain over to whatever app she uses, to the point where she couldn't even decide what costume to wear to a costume party without asking the thing to come up with ideas. To me, that's pretty much the same as those posters above who can't seem to keep track of their own work. Huh???

As far as my own IT habits are concerned, I spend most of my time rolling my eyes at "AI" being shoved into every possible interaction for no particular benefit. Like Amazon's "Rufus" that's supposed to help me with my online shopping. Well, hey, Jeff, if you want to be helpful, how about fixing your site's crappy search engine that insists on showing me stuff that isn't what I asked for?

It's like social media. Some People just don't fact check it at all.

we use it in meetings for finding out who hogs the call, and calling them out next meeting… then also screenshotting the cams in the call, feeding it into AI and asking it to generate us all as something funny.

Daily for work, management well excited due to 30% productivity increase in their metrics

Aside; be nice is get a pay bump anywhere near this 😂

We're thinking of doing renovations to the house at the moment. I'm taking pictures of various parts of the house and using Gemini to visualize what potential changes will look like eg changing window and door sizes and colour,patio ideas,kitchen and utility layout. I've also used it to generate 3d images of 2d plans. It's been very useful

I have just used AI to compare health insurance polices. I would rate it excellent.

I was going to ask AI to construct a reply to a thread I was replying to, but decided to use my brain instead.

People already claim others work as their own. Plagiarism it's as old as the hills.

Social media and media in general is also long been used to influence. For example many believe Napoleon was short. But but he was average height or slightly above for his era and demographic. It's propaganda that created that perception.

It will take jobs. It might also create jobs. Someone that used to do a repetitive job now is free to do other more useful work. Perhaps become more experts as they only look at things AI can't do.

I suspect the real societal problem will come in the form of AI relationships. A fully responsive online persona tailormade to your persona, with realistic sex toys to compliment it for the physical side of things. I can see it becoming the new heroine, highly addictive and very damaging.

The thing is though, it'll be highly lucrative for those that own the technology. And with that wealth, they will own more of our society, and see less rights and and more misery all around.

I suspect not only will AI replace a lot of jobs in society, it'll also be used to distract the masses, all in the name of the wealthy few controlling even more of our society.

A technocratic dystopia in the making.