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It’s so strange seeing people being proud that they can’t keep up with the technologies.
Yeah, that’s just judgemental and presumptive.
I have quite a lot of shit in my life, and I have actively decided to pay no attention to AI. Not because “I can’t keep up with it” but because after some research into it I decided “it was bullshit and nonsense and not something I need to know about”
Mate, I don’t know you and I don’t care about you. Stop talking about yourself for a second. You posted a screenshot where the person said “I have never even tried it.” That’s it.
Cus you don’t need to try something to have done some research on why you wouldn’t. A basic, cursory search of ‘what is chat gpt’ would get you LLM, and a basic cursory search of LLM gets you ‘machine designed to make shit up whenever it doesn’t know the answer, meaning you can’t trust it’. Not to mention they’ve probably seen at least one screenshot of it failing miserably at counting letters in a word. Or they’ve seen the ai answers Google shoves down their throat and learned from basic word of mouth that GPT is More of That. The only thing they said they don’t know is WHERE GPT is, or how it’s accessed.
Look, this is your life. If you want to be miserable, angry and left behind - fine, I don’t care. You don’t need my permission. So stop wasting your and my time.
All due respect, you started this.
You attacked me for writing a post. Clearly you care enough to do that.
“People being proud that they can’t keep up with the technologies.” is a bit of a slap but it’s hardly an attack.
If you’re going to post on the internet you have to expect people to give you some level of shit.
I don’t get how so many people carry their computer illiteracy as a badge of honor.
Chatgpt is useful.
Is it as useful as Tech Evangelists praise it to be? No. Not yet - and perhaps never will be.
But I sure do love to let it write my mails to people who I don’t care for, but who I don’t want to anger by sending my default 3 word replies.
It’s a tool to save time. Use it or pay with your time if you willfully ignore it.
Sounds like it’s a tool for wasting time.
I used the image generation of a jail broken model locally to drum up an AI mock-up of work I then paid a professional to do
This was 10000x smoother than the last time I tried this, where I irritated the artist with how much they failed to understand what I meant. The AI didn’t care, I was able to get something decently close to what I had in my head, and a professional took that and made something great with it
Is that a better example?
AI is here to stay. Anyone who refuses to learn how to use it to benefit their lives will be hurting their future. I’ve used a dozen or so AI tools and use a couple regularly and the efficacy of just chatGPT is clear. There is no going back, AI is your future whether you want it or not. AI will become your user interface for consumer electronics similarly to how consumer electronics seem to all require smart phone apps these days. Your smart phone is now the intermediary, using whatever AI the hardware manufacturers allow, such as Apple and Google using their own LLM AIs.
This entire argument is predicated on the assumption that it is a benefit to my life.
What if I believe that it’s not? That it is an active detriment? That I can live my life better without it?
And this is not contempt prior to investigation. I’ve tried it, and I honestly believe that I can do things better without it.
You know people who connect their fridge to the internet, and their front door locks to the internet, and their central heating system to the internet?
What benefit does that give me? All it does is allow – or potentially allow – someone to hack into my fridge, my central heating and my front door.
Why would I do that? I mean – that would be ridiculous. I have a front door lock that’s an actual lock because it is almost certainly going to be more secure.
I can write my answers, my emails, my letters better than AI can. I can write proposals at work better than AI can.
I can manage my life better than AI can because based on everything I have seen there is nothing it can do that is anywhere near as competent as I am.
A good horse rider was once better than an automobile for traveling on the dirt roads that existed. I have avoided just about every novel and ridiculously useless tech trend for 20 years, but I do not believe this is the same. This is a foundational change on par with the internet or the smart phone. If you can’t find a single use for AI in your life, then you will be left behind while others make significant improvements to theirs. More likely however, it we be unavoidable in the next decade as AI slowly becomes the user interface prefered by companies, which is already happening in customer service. Having used AI and LLM regularly for the last 3-4 months, there is no going back. You can choose to live in the past for as long as you able but your dependency on how you do things today will impede your ability to function in a future that makes those processes obsolete, especially as future generations grow up with AI from birth.
you’re not going to get anywhere with these people.
i’m fairly certain most people are much too threatened on a fundamental level by these technologies to be rational about it. we can sit here throwing data and studies at them if we want, showing they are objectively wrong but it won’t do anything effectual.
the way i see people like this discussing the technology reminds me a lot of schoolyard behavior. the feelings it inspires in them are too much to discretely express so we get obviously incorrect quips and jabs instead of thoughtful discussion, to the roar of the crowd
I hear ya, but I can’t stop. I believe this change is significant and I don’t want to see them blindsided by their inability to see it today. One day imt he not so distant future, they won’t be able to avoid it and better that they are armed with some information for the day they can no longer avoid it.
