Do you use AI?

What about AI Images?

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we’ve achieved it with Cursor (and a lot of internal additions and process improvements) in our department

Copilot is nowhere near as good as above to be honest, nor has the ecosystem

Which might explain why Microsoft stock got hammered so badly lately, they fallen behind in the race

Biggest issue/bottleneck now is PR reviews, trying to speed that up too by at least addressing low hanging fruit, if I stop wasting time on social media will get there 😁

The issue is you can't get the breast cancer/medical stuff without all the crap.

The question is whether the trade off and opening pandora's box is worth it.

I'm in favour of never stepping anywhere near the box.

Because look at all the sh*t AI is doing already. Deepfake nudes, slop, loss of jobs and more.

We can't be trusted to do only do medical/good research with it.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Isn't it also being trained on pre-existing information? These Large Language Models don't think or reason, if there are human errors in the training data then they can pump out errors the same as humans.

No but companies are pushing this slop for a reason. We could easily use it for meaningful purposes only. Instead, we're burning the planet for crappy images of cats with saxophones.

The box is open though. Today, it's slop but tomorrow it's going to be much more realistic and it will be used to push all kinds of malevolent agendas.

I asked AI if the recent weather in Ireland is linked to climate disruption, and the answer was yes.

Yes.

I increasingly use it.

I find it very good in certain prescribed scenarios - for example, getting a semi-useful outline for a script in a programming language with which I have no experience.

The notion that it can take my job might well be down the line but IMO at the moment I don't think so.

I find it useful in its own - so far somewhat flawed - right.

AI -Google Gemini in particular has a fantastic search function great for detailed research genealogy etc.

The AI revolution is totally different to the industrial revolution because AI is replacing the last part of humans that is relevant to our success (our ability to think). If a machine can do everything better than us then there is little need for us to produce things anymore

The need for a capitalist system would be defunct because producing things would be reduced to paying an electricity bill once these things advance sufficiently. No more need for humans who are just consumers.

We've always just been consumers, same as every other mammal on the planet. Our success as a species is primarily due to our ability to make a "hard copy" record of what we've done so that others can replicate and/or improve on what's worked. A way of bypassing the lottery-based evolution that other animals have to deal with.

But for decades, we've been undermining that anyway. Parents spend a small fortune "fixing" their bug-eyed, buck-toothed, hunch-backed children so they've a better chance at reproducing (… oh, sorry, "being successful in life" … ) ; survival of the richest, not the fittest. Jobs are earned, lovers are wooed, stuff is sold all on the basis of pretence so AI isn't particularly revolutionary in that regard.

What "AI" cannot do is actual work so the jobs it replaces will be almost entirely limited to the makey-up jobs that feed our consumerist society - jobs that are mostly limited to sitting in front of a computer analysing data or generating reams of code or text that gets shuffled from one office to another, but that doesn't meaningfully change anything about the real world.

If the consumerist-capitalist economy collapses because of AI … well, there are plenty of us still able to wield a shovel or an axe, and we already go days, weeks, occasionally months without having to click, like or subscribe to some digital nonsense.

Jobs were, are and will be lost to AI, that's 100%. Some jobs will become redundant, some roles will be replaced and some will be needlessly removed just to be reinstated after, when it becomes apparent that … agents can't really do all.

My point still stands, if anyone is replaced by a tool, they were a tool themselves. Both literally and figuratively.