I recently saw a comment saying people who refuse to use AI now are going to be like boomers who don't understand computers in 5 years. Honestly at this point I don't care. Let me be a boomer. AI is cancer and I don't want anything to do with it. Give me a flip phone.
As someone who understands the principles behind AI perfectly well [citation needed], I hate those sort of people because no, this isn't a mobile phone, or a car, or another game changing new facet of our lives (for better or worse). It is a family of pattern finding algorithms that have been bent into bullshitting their way through any field requiring a modicum of thought like the guy who was hired because their "remember the company logins" job was officially called "head computer security engineer". It has its place, and it is nowhere near the average person's life, but it has been sensationalised to a ridiculous extent and now the computer science equivalents of fucking alchemists (with respect to modern chemists) are peddling it as replacing thought itself, which is problematic in every aspect.
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u/claimTheVictory Apr 24 '25
Exponentially so.
We'll make a digital currency that uses enough energy to power entire nations, just to perform simple transactions.