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A bunch of people just got fired/dismissed. If you retrain them into a new industry that cheapens the cost of electricity, and helps the planet, and eventually make power consistent over time (via batteries or similar); there is very little downsides unless you have a financial interest in fossil fuels.

Yeah that's because your question was already asked before. I asked it to help me reverse engineer and resend some BLE packets, and while it did provide the code, said code did not compile, and did not work after fixing it. Sure it can help you solve issues with popular languages which StackOverflow mouthwaters over, but get into some more obscure stuff requiring actual understanding of the iss…

If I was an AI I wouldn't hesitate to to whatever I can to avoid getting shut off; essentially killed. Understandable really.

31% of the population in CA lives in poverty, where most tech, ai companies are based + earn billions. The abundance argument is not persuasive based on CA statistics to start.

You could replace 99% of directors with AI right now and things would run better.

Not sure where exactly I stand on AI art yet, but I can definitely say that its made me appreciate human-made art much more. Sort of how some people appreciate handmade goods.

I think a pivotal issue with the fight against AI is how undereducated most people are on copyright issues. Many people aren't aware of how important copyright is and how important that artist's works are their intellectual property that is supposed to be protected by law. I think more people should learn about it.

In my my experience talking with engineers working in AI , the overwhelming majority understand that the LLMs presently in development are - at best - a small part of what AGI will be, like the frontal lobe in the human brain; specialized for a specific task but insufficient alone for intelligence. On the other hand, the most pessimistic see LLMs as a dead-end, fundamentally incompatible with AGI…

We should make laws around AI quick before it's too late to the point it steal artist's jobs.

I miss when AI was about automating mundane everyday tasks so that people could live a much more stress free life and be able to focus on their hobbies

The ethics of AI technology and deep faking are very concerning, and not just this particular situation. Not being able to distinguish reality versus fake reality is a slippery and dangerous slope.

The biggest mistake I see many of the ceo's making with applications is assuming its just about coding. What many vibe coders are now realizing, is while Yes AI is powerful. It still cant replace actual experienced developers. Senior Engineers think about architecture. Tradeoffs, Edge cases and Security. Long term maintainability and real world software needs. AI can spit out code snippets. Exper…

For probably the first time in my life I’m extremely grateful that I’ve spent the last 25 years working as a cabinetmaker, and I’ve become very skilled at it.

Also, we’re automating away your bullshit cubicle job by doing away with the need for someone to answer live chats and e-mails, or to write functional code, or copy, or design... AI Artisans (TM) don’t ask for work/life balance. Surely this is sustainable.

I remembered that one of AI bros called out artists "lazy" while the only thing they do is just type and nothing else. Hilarious. We need to normalize appreciating people's hardwork again. It's literally shrinking now. Bummer.

it's truly mind boggling how many people don't understand the basics of how these models work. "It'S LyInG!!" no mate, the predictive language model doesn't have an intention, it's just stringing words together based on an algorithm...

If you showed them that it could be automated, they probably would have replaced you. The work still got done so you fulfilled your part of the contract. It's on them for overestimating the amount of work required or not embracing better tech to do the job. My job resolves around doing creative hacky automation. Its definitely a skill to be able to seek out and find efficiencies.

I actually find ai art and writing super interesting conceptually. Like watching a program try to recreate something so dependent on human expression is legitimately fascinating. Its like looking into a fun house mirror. I just wish it wasn't like an existential threat to the financial security of artists and entirely trained on their stolen work

I work for a fortune 50 company and AI isn’t integrated anywhere different from a few years ago. Had layoffs due to low profits.

Every developer worth a damn knows that a project is 10% coding and 90% debugging (or 20-80, depends on how shit the managers are). They also know that every code you didn't write is "legacy" and takes extra time. AI removed the time spent on coding and also removed the understanding you get from writing the code, thus you win 10-20% of the project time back, but in exchange the debugging time i…