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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound
[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]
Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]
Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]
Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]
Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.
I dislike what AI could do to art, but i don’t really mind AI at work. I mentioned it in another post, I like AI because it minimises the tedious and time-wasting data entry at my job.
You’re using it for data entry? Are you INSANE?
I was skeptical but it is surprisingly good. Of course I double check before finalising it.
And to pre-empt the anti-AI crowd in Lemmy, I don’t know what field you guys are in, but my field has plenty of data to deal with. This is talked about even before I graduated from college many years ago. “Big data” was the term iirc. In my job, there are mistakes that happen and remeasurements have to be done. The problem? I have to go through the spreadsheet cells one by one and manually change the data with the new, remeasured data. Using AI minimises this time-wasting exercise.
The current AI models are bad for more critical analysis but they are good for “secretary work”.
You may be able to automate this without AI and then you don’t have to re-check its work. Worth looking into.
Every single piece of data?
Yup.
Honest to god I wonder if the detractors have jobs? I as well use AI at work for various things and it’s amazing. I have gone from hours or days of effort to minutes to hours of effort. I use it for everything from coding, troubleshooting issues and wordsmithing emails or documentation.
Like you I validate everything.
I might offend many Lemmy users here, but given their sizeable demographic in this platform, I think those who detract AI are older folks who are probably just having a negative reaction to things novel to them.
Or younger kids who rightfully are pissed it’s taking entry level jobs away. I’m extremely sympathetic at my 48 years but my god people the genie is out of the bottle and we can’t wish it away.
Being optimistic, I see UBI on the horizon. It’s absolute suicide if we delay too long.
I am concerned as well that it would displace us from work. But most of the criticism of AI I met are, frankly, older people who think it’s still dumb as a rock and could never improve. Although they don’t realise that they are likely experiencing averse reaction to what is new. Meanwhile, the younger people, as we are already talking about, recognise it’s improving over time. Hence, the youths being concerned of being put out of job (I never met a young person who still think the AI doesn’t have any potential). So the latter group recognise that AI is working, as opposed to the older generations.
Or people who see the whole economic shitshow and creative accounting behind the current bubble… And who profit from it. I won"t say LLMs have no use, but the use cases certainly do not justify the level of (circular) investments put into it.
At least now I know copyright infringement do not exist.
I mean, regardless of the speculative bubble, some people think AI is dumb as a rock when it’s not really. Maybe three or four years ago it was, but the gradual improvement is clear as day. This is clearly better than the bots that write webpages before the advent of AI. Although, I still would not trust AI to do more complex tasks in my workplace.
Whether they admit it or not, I just think those who are staunchly anti-AI are averse to the new, and/or thinking that their first experience with the first model of a technology, which tends to be bad, is end-all-be-all. I certainly remember when I thought Bluetooth headphones won’t ever improve, because the first models sold had bad connectivity.