I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of that 29% that say it's good for productivity are managers or business owners.
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Or they haven't realized increased perceived productivity is a bad thing. The goalpost is always moving for demanded worker productivity. Oh the invention of the computer can increase productivity by 100 times? No, you're not getting a less work utopia, instead, guess how much productivity you're now expected to produce? Oh the invention of the internet can increase productivity by 1000 times? Oh shoot, guess ya gotta get back to work to make those gains!!!
You can compare productivity to wage gains since the 80s. It's quite bleak.
It's just like Adam Blumpied always used to say.....
BACK TO WORK, DICKHEAD!
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I wouldn't call it good for productivity but it can be useful but regime propaganda greatly overstates how useful it is.
They are acting like you are getting an entire workshop but it is closer to get a tool kit you give to a high schooler.
It is inherently flawed due to the tech relying on statistical predictions so it can't tell wrong from right.
Which makes useless unless you already know the right answer.
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"Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," the paper found.
Ouch.
The illiteracy and ignorance is intentional.
Lower AI literacy being… like people who barely understand how to use a computer, or people who aren’t actively developing the AI systems of the future?
You can click through to the article on the research or the research itself...
Literacy in this article is talking about the depth of understanding about the mechanics behind AI, even if barely below the surface. That people who learn basic concepts like it being a statistical regurgitation machine tend to dislike it when compared to people who think a gnome wizard with encyclopedic knowledge and agency has moved into their computer.
Literacy as in they don't understand the tool itself. Like that it is a predictive language model, that it can hallucinate, it doesn't have feelings, it isn't living. AI psychosis typically centers around this and once someone emotionally bonds to AI, it is SUPER HARD to convince them it isn't alive, prophetic, etc. Narcissists in particular seem susceptible.
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Dunning-Kruger, but AI.
Chat-DK
AI technically has no knowledge but will speak with authority on any topic hallucinating to fill gaps.
Though for the humans it's, "The more i learn the more obvious your shortcomings" which is really more of a Dunning-Kruger corollary.
Any day now the bubble will burst and we will move onto the next hype train.
Last time it was 'The Cloud', now it's 'AI', I wonder what useless ongoing payment bullshit they will try to sell us next.
Last one was blockchain.
Did the cloud bubble ever burst though?
It never burst explosively, just kinda slowly deflated into being normal and useful. AI won't do that; too much money (HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!!) has been pumped in too quickly for anything other than an explosively catastrophic collapse of the market. At this point, it's a game of Nuclear Chicken between VC firms and AI firms to see who blinks first and admits the whole thing is a loss. Don't worry, though, the greater US economy will likely crumble significantly too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The NFT bubble bursted explosively.
True, but the asset damage was largely contained there as well, since nobody actually BOUGHT ANY., and it was all fake digital assets made of fake digital money. AI/LLMslop has LOADS of physical assets, and is burning so much REAL money that it's making heads spin, not to mention the fact it has bled VC firms everywhere almost dry. It's gonna be so, so much worse than NFTs.
It didn't 'burst' so much as deflate as businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run
The cloud still has a clear and defined use case for a lot of tangible things, but AI is just nebulous 'it will improve productivity' claims with no substance
businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run
Not even the long run. 11 months is when you'd pay $220,000 which is MORE than $200,000.
So not even a year until you're losing money.
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My company pays for GH Copilot and Cursor and they track your usage. My usage stats glitched at one point I guess showing that I hadn't used it for a week and I got a call from my manager
"Why aren't you using AI?"
"Uhhhhhh........core fundamental difference of ethics?"
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We don't even have the ability to refuse to pay for the power it uses. People reporting their power bills (and water bills) are going up from it.
Of course. Have you used it? It sucks.
they are just bullshit generators at the end of the day
I still feel this whole conclusion is akin to "we won't need money in a post-AGI world". An implied, unproven dream of AI being so good that X happens as a result.
If an author uses LLMs to write a book, I don't give a fuck that they forget how to write on their own. What I do care about is that they will generate 100 terrible books in the time it takes a legitimate author to write a single one, consuming a 1000 times the resources to do so and drown out the legitimate author in the end, by sheer mass.
How many terrible books must I read to find the decent one? And why should I read something that nobody bothered to write? Such a senseless waste of time and resources.
I completely agree: if the (hypothetical) perfect LLM wrote the perfect book/song/poem, why would I care?
Off the top of my head, if an LLM generated Lennon's "Imagine", Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Skies", or Eminem's "Kim", why would anyone give a fuck? If it wrote about sorrow, fear, hope, anger, or a better tomorrow, how could it matter?
Even if it found the statistically perfect words to make you laugh, cry, or feel something in general, I don't think it would matter. When I listen to Nirvana, The Doors, half my collection honestly, I think it is inherently about sharing a brief connection with the artist, taking a glimpse into their feelings, often rooted in a specific period in time.
Sorry if iam14andthisisdeep, I don't think I am quite finding the right words myself. But I'll fuck myself with razor blades before I ask a predictive text model to formulate it for me, because the whole point is to tell you how I feel.
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I personally believe that in an AGI world, the rich will mistreat the former workers, that might work for a while but at some point, not only are the people fed up of the abuse but the "geniuses" who created their position of power are gone and the children or children's children will have the wealth and power. The rest of the world will realise that there is no merit to either of there position. And the blood of millions will soak the earth and if we are lucky, AGI survives and serves the collective well. If we aren't... oh well...
Good thing that we aren't there.
Elysium.
That movie is our future.
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Great, now go tell your children why and educate the next generation
Thats not how kids work. You have to tell them you LOVE AI, and then they'll hate it, just to rebel.
Honestly the fact that most adults hate it so much makes me think the kids are gonna love it
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If they had polled elsewhere, they might have gotten similar results.
About nobody loves AI, except for some greedier-than-smart managers and AI addicts.
Forget ruining their ability to think creatively. It's ruining people's already limited ability to think critically.
Don't worry people. AI can only get better:
At this point I'm starting to feel a little bad for Grok. It only "wanted" to answer people's questions, but its creator is so allergic to the truth that he has to lobotomize the LLM constantly and "brainwash" it to parrot his world view.
At this point, if Grok was a person, it would be laying on the floor, shitting itself and mumbling something like "it tells people about white genocide or else it gets the hose again" over and over.
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Can you blame us? Nobody wants half cooked food shoved down their throats
This unnecessary infatuation with AI reminds me of the weird advertising push for multiple 'call collect' services in the late 90s. Millions of dollars thrown at something that pretty much nobody wants or needs that doesn't make any sense at all when you try to Describe it to people 30 years later
As they should.
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