Lol, they completely over estimate how many people actually use AI I guess? I have used it like 3 or 4 times ever in 2 years. Im pretty sure I will be iust fine. I would much rather see RAM prices return to normal so everything else would be normal.

What does he think people did 5 years ago?

I find the people who are worst at thinking use AI the most.

I'd be 100% fine, and I'm a fucking systems analyst, a job where you'd think AI might actually be helpful.

But honestly, nope it's not. Even for basic data parsing and analysis, it takes more time for me to double check AIs work, understand what it's doing, then correct its mistakes than it would for me to just do it right the first time.

Let me put it another way; a job that takes me two hours on my own would probably take at least 3 hours if I had AI do it, when I factor in the proofing and corrections, plus there's the additional cost of the AI itself, so I have a hard time seeing how it will EVER be more cost efficient to use AI. Especially with ai prices keep going up, and its use raises overall energy prices for everyone.

It rarely saves time, and pretty much never saves money, so I'm kind of wondering what the point is, other than selling a pipe dream to dipshit boomer ceo's that don't understand basic math, but view employees as a wasted expense they want to get rid of

Dumbest question I've seen all day.

I would have to draw on 48 years of lived experience over 18 months of hallucinated garbage oh noes

God that's depressing if it's real.

Since I haven’t used AI/LLMs for much at all, the answers are yes without question.

Not only do I not use a.i. in my job, I can't even think of any way a.i. could be even a minor help.

Me being valued for my knowledge and experience again rather than expected to be a glorified babysitter to a child incapable of retaining anything meaningful?

Ya I could go back to that.

I've done my job just fine the last 10 years because I RTFM.

If AI were banned I'd just go back to not being pressured into using something that is a mixed bag in terms of usefulness. Yesterday I used an LLM to try to clean up some tech debt in a codebase. The result is so many code changes that it feels like I should vet what strategies it employed and then once confirmed they are good strategies, make the changes myself in a cleaner and more surgical way. Which wouldn't use a fuckton of electricity like the LLM did. The way the LLM did things edited over 100 files and added tons of comments that won't matter 3 weeks from now. Reviewing all that feels like more work than if I did it myself. I guess I could just blindly trust it if I was an idiot. In the end it may have taught me a couple of things but it's unclear if this is worth it.

As far as my works concerned it was a lot easier to find manuals and diagrams on Google before the AI steamroller. I know it was essentially there in the shape of the algorithm but clearly something different between these two monsters.

I went 18+ years in my career without using it but I sometimes use it now. I could easily go back. Could the moron who wrote that?

He should chatgpt what people did before chatgpt

Ummm I don't really use any of those services. I don't see how it's bad to remove something utterly useless 🤷‍♂️

Yes, yes I would!

I mean I work in a slaughterhouse pulling carcusses with a hook from the cooler out to get cut up. Not sure how losing AI would impact my job.

Oh my god I can’t wait

sounds like someone that never done meth. Meth might help you stop using AI.

on a abstract level, he is correct, using AI has the same effect as drinking alcohol which has the same effect of doing meth.

the people who use AI, if it were to all be taken away, would have the same problems (on an abstract level) as say a recovering alcoholic. As for those who haven't relied on it as much, you could think of it as a temporary blackout.

It's even worse than the response. I'm struggling to find an elegant analogy, but suffice to say that many of us that use it every day would be totally fine going back to doing it the old way. And the environmental impact! And cognitive impact! Yeah, it would be a change, but it's nothing like meth. (Not that I've ever done meth, but I've known addicts.)

This is exactly what is happening at national scales with "sovereign AI" projects. As if suddenly losing ChatGPT would cripple a country. We'd be just fine. Suddenly lock us out of our John Deer tractors or O365, and it would be another story.

I really hope they’re getting roasted in the comments.

It's the worst version of ' if.. then... else' ever invented that get the 'else' part 49% wrong.

amazing how stupid humans have already become.

Let me bring it further, how many humans could survive 1 week with no phone or Internet ? They probably have never looked something up in a book or gone to a library or wrote a check. Its good to keep all skills sharp and not rely so heavily on billionaire tech. When all this tech was coming into being I thought great, learn that and also learn the standard traditional ways as well. Seems folks forgot that, or they dont want to learn.

Shut down internet access on your typical 20 year old and see how that goes for them. Heck, age doesn't even matter. Do that to a 60 year old they'll still lose it.

Here's hoping to more mass cloudflare and Microsoft outages to teach people a lesson.

Guys, be gentle. Most addicts don’t even realize they have a problem.

Go ask that to a nurse, a teachers or a Garbage disposal crew. Look them laugh at you and rethink your life choices.

They should try running chatgpt in their brain when it's not online