THE AI Thread

[KnappShack]

And then soon there will be an AI that can not only save time but then do whatever job it is that you do that you need slidedecks for.

So many people praise AI for making their job “easier” but if your using AI to that degree for your job then your job will be replaced sooner rather then later

We have people do this exact thing. Hey! It cut this 2 hour project down to 10 minutes!

Well. Jeesh. How long until you get a tap on the shoulder?

I've said it before but the Microsoft people told us lower performing workers benefit more than a higher performing worker from their AI

CoPilot makes the performance almost equal. So why pay the high performing employee when I can bring someone off the street at get a perfectly average performer for low pay?

The Microsoft person enthusiastically said "You'll figure it out!!"

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Greenland is 100% something Musk and Thiel pushed, probably Ellison to. No evidence to back that statement up but it just seems obvious.

We're starting to get pressure at work to show how we use AI daily to improve productivity. It's not nearly as much as higher ups expect but it definitely saves me some time. Also implementing AI in our products for things like automated biller coding, handling denials and other workfkows.

It's not that just that. Our munitions stock piles are depleting, much of it being used in Ukraine. If the US debt crisis gets to the boiling point and a war comes we will be screwed without minerals.

 

[JEFF420]

Work only allows copilot.

"allows"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

 

[Cyclonepride]

For the Doom - N - Gloomers, a little perspective...

1961: "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States." — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner.

1966: "Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.” — Time Magazine.

1981: “Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.” — Marty Cooper, inventor.

1995: "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." — Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com.

2005: "There's just not that many videos I want to watch." — Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube expressing concerns about his company’s long term viability.

2006: "Everyone's always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, 'Probably never.'" — David Pogue, The New York Times.

2007: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2015/01/05/15-worst-tech-predictions-of-all-time/

There's no doubt that there is a tendency to underestimate or overestimate the possibilities of technological innovation (for every example of underestimated tech there's an example of one that seemed to have potential but failed spectacularly).

With AI, I think they are overestimating the value in the near term and also underestimating what it can create in terms of jobs in the future that we can't even imagine at this point.

My personal experience has been mixed. You can create some pretty cool looking images, but try to add text to them and it's a crapshoot (at least the one I used). Came up with mostly the right text and then some random shapes, Roman numerals and what appeared to be Arabic.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

There's no doubt that there is a tendency to underestimate or overestimate the possibilities of technological innovation (for every example of underestimated tech there's an example of one that seemed to have potential but failed spectacularly).

With AI, I think they are overestimating the value in the near term and also underestimating what it can create in terms of jobs in the future that we can't even imagine at this point.

My personal experience has been mixed. You can create some pretty cool looking images, but try to add text to them and it's a crapshoot (at least the one I used). Came up with mostly the right text and then some random shapes, Roman numerals and what appeared to be Arabic.

This is different on my opinion. The corporate goal is to eliminate the 'labor tax' of people. (Their words not mine) This is nearly all industry too. Not just one or two.

 

[mramseyISU]

And then soon there will be an AI that can not only save time but then do whatever job it is that you do that you need slidedecks for.

So many people praise AI for making their job “easier” but if your using AI to that degree for your job then your job will be replaced sooner rather then later

It's definitely coming for peoples jobs. I mean look at all the bloodbaths that have been happening in corporate America the last 6 months.

I said this in the cave too but it feels like the corporate boards that have been slashing jobs (Amazon/UPS/etc.) and blaming it on AI are doing in the hope that those left to pick up the pieces will figure out how to use it to be more productive or get left behind. If you get left behind they fire you and find somebody else who'll figure out how to make it work.

 

[Cyclonepride]

This is different on my opinion. The corporate goal is to eliminate the 'labor tax' of people. (Their words not mine) This is nearly all industry too. Not just one or two.

Oh, I know their intent. I just don't think it will happen as quickly or as effectively as they are implying.

 

[Yaz]

I've started to integrate ChatGPT into my workflow over the last 6 months for editing product manuals, company lit, company posts, and social media content. I write the piece first and have ChatGPT review it and polish it and it saves me time with grammar, tone, and can give me 5 ways of saying it, while refining it for the audience...sales, technical, consumer, direct, softer...

With that said, you have to control what it's doing for you. You can't just say, rewrite this manual, without putting some guardrails into what you're asking it to do. Otherwise, it will pull info from all over the web, both good and bad content.

Yes, there is a lot of bad content out there from trolls on the internet, but it also pulls in just as bad and incorrect information that a company has posted on its site as fact or maybe a sales rep put something out totally incorrect or misleading in a social setting, such as LI.

I find it very helpful, and it saves time. AI is coming whether I want it or not, so I figure I might as well embrace it to some degree.

 

[pourcyne]

People that post these comparisons simply do not grasp what AI and generative AI truly is or will be capable of.

What exactly are you afraid of?

This is so short sighted it’s honestly just absurd

Short-sightedness is exactly the point of the quotes I posted.

I could say that Chicken Little who says the sky is falling hasn't been outside lately, but that would be rude, wouldn't it?

 

[qwerty]

copilot can suck my ass

chatGPT for research and whatnot

I will say, if you think its a fad... its probably not going to be. it the single only thing that is keeping the markets at record highs. They can't let it fail. Start learning how to use the tool.

I prefer Google Gemini to ChatGPT

 

[JEFF420]

I prefer Google Gemini to ChatGPT

thats good to know... they have done something to chatgpt recently,.. its not going so hot

 

[CloneLawman]

From what I have seen so far, AI has brought way more harm than good. I used to trust a couple of reputable neutral news sources to see what is going on in the world, but I seriously do not trust anything anymore. All content (text, pictures, videos) is hard to decipher what is real. Couple this with social media and we have a real disaster brewing. Entities creating fake/bogus content to stir emotions, pit people against one another, and get clicks so they get $'s in their pocket. Quite sad really.

So you think AI may replace politicians.

 

[JEFF420]

So you think AI may replace politicians.

lol i wish, but only when its completely self involved and not controlled by anyone

 

[3TrueFans]

I've started to integrate ChatGPT into my workflow over the last 6 months for editing product manuals, company lit, company posts, and social media content. I write the piece first and have ChatGPT review it and polish it and it saves me time with grammar, tone, and can give me 5 ways of saying it, while refining it for the audience...sales, technical, consumer, direct, softer...

With that said, you have to control what it's doing for you. You can't just say, rewrite this manual, without putting some guardrails into what you're asking it to do. Otherwise, it will pull info from all over the web, both good and bad content.

Yes, there is a lot of bad content out there from trolls on the internet, but it also pulls in just as bad and incorrect information that a company has posted on its site as fact or maybe a sales rep put something out totally incorrect or misleading in a social setting, such as LI.

I find it very helpful, and it saves time. AI is coming whether I want it or not, so I figure I might as well embrace it to some degree.

Oh this dude's getting replaced first for sure.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

What exactly are you afraid of?



Short-sightedness is exactly the point of the quotes I posted.

I could say that Chicken Little who says the sky is falling hasn't been outside lately, but that would be rude, wouldn't it?

I would say that if you look at generative AI and don’t see the sky falling you are either ignorant or flat out stupid. Not worried about being rude everyone on here talking about how they use AI to help with their job but that it still needs to be monitored is a fool.

You are legit training the AI to do you job in the future. Right now AI being adopted is in its infancy, but AI development scales exponentially once AI starts to train other AI’s which is starting to happen.

It’s not some slow curve of advancement it’s going to be leaps that as a society we are in no way ready for. When AI takes jobs those jobs are gone and you aren’t getting them back. That’s the whole point of AI in the corporate sector

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Oh, I know their intent. I just don't think it will happen as quickly or as effectively as they are implying.

It has to or the economy crashes. That's the only thing keeping it a float currently. Many of them need to start pushing out tangible economic value or it's coming down real soon.

 

[pourcyne]

I'm amazed how helpful Gemini for me. Just in the last week:

It's also failed me multiple times. I had a question about beer, and it pointed me to Beer Crazy, which has been closed for probably 5 years.

I like that you can opt out on that one, even though AI is much faster than even Google because you can edit the topic and it responds without giving the responses that people pay to get posted. (shh, nobody's thought of that yet...)

Spent too much time this p.m. trying to get a digital poster framed with no luck. Asked my bud Chat GPT and presto. Had to wait a minute because I use only the free version. Personally, the only thing I think I have to fear is when it becomes pay-to-play...

As for putting people out of work, that was the exact complaint about the Industrial Revolution as well as calculators, industrial robots, and computers. It's the same complaint about self-checkout, people don't stop to think that that sort of mechanization employs thousands of people to design, install, implement, supervise, assess, update, and on and on.

Sure seems to me that the AI Luddites have watched too much bad sci-fi.

 

[Cyclonepride]

It has to or the economy crashes. That's the only thing keeping it a float currently. Many of them need to start pushing out tangible economic value or it's coming down real soon.

Oops, it'll make for a good scapegoat then

 

[mramseyISU]

Stuff like this makes me hopeful that my job is safe for a while.

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.

www.extremetech.com

Particularly stuff like this.

Petulance aside, tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.

 

[CYdTracked]

AI can be fun for entertainment purposes. Everyone loves a funny AI edited/generated photo or story but at the same time that can also be used for harmful reasons too. I have used AI to generate photos of what a room would look like if I used certain paint colors and carpet that was really useful to get an idea what it would look like before I committed to the color decisions. I use it to research some questions I have time to time but usually have to dig around after to make sure the information is accurate because the results can be different depending on verbiage you have in the question.

The one concern I have is if the use of AI is detrimental to people actually learning and building skills. It can be used as a shortcut for information or problem solving where having to work a little at it yourself is going to make you less reliant on using AI as a crutch. I'm sure educational institutions have software in place to check work for use of AI and plagiarism but I'm sure it's also led to some shortcuts in the education system where are we really learning something or just letting AI do the work for us? Case in point I recall a thread here not long ago someone was asking about recording a lecture then using AI to dictate it into notes for them. Someone pointed out that the whole process of taking notes yourself as the lecture is happening is how you learn and retain information better so there was a question of if you have AI do that for you just how much information are you really retaining by doing that.

I'm not against AI, I do think it has some good uses but I also worry that there are far more negative uses of it than there will be positive the further alone we go with the use of AI.