We all know what AI is doing to the workforce but that’s no mystery. Has AI actually served you well, or is it all overhyped slop?
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I think Alan Tudyck get fucked over because Will Smith couldn’t handle not being the most likable character in a movie.
As soon as test audiences said they loved the robot, the cut back Tudyck’s scenes and completely dropped him from promotion and intro credits.
Slop
It’s simultaneously awesome and overhyped.
It’s OK in some instances where it’s a tool that helps your hands. Once you start outsourcing your head to chatgpt, you’re voluntarily letting your mental faculties rot for the sake of percieved comfort.
I use it daily as a glorified search engine. Ever since Google decided that showing ads is more important than showing search results ChatGPT is much better.
We all know what AI is doing to the workforce
Do we?
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs
Summary
While anxiety over the effects of AI on today’s labor market is widespread, our data suggests it remains largely speculative. The picture of AI’s impact on the labor market that emerges from our data is one that largely reflects stability, not major disruption at an economy-wide level. While generative AI looks likely to join the ranks of transformative, general purpose technologies, it is too soon to tell how disruptive the technology will be to jobs. The lack of widespread impacts at this early stage is not unlike the pace of change with previous periods of technological disruption. Preregistering areas where we would expect to see the impact and continuing to monitor monthly impacts will help us distinguish rumor from fact.
*The narrative that AI’s are causing job loss is a marketing strategy performed by the AI companies to boost their recognition through fear.
I recently completed a fairly complex implementation training in government for a team of non-technical users, including agents, agentic workflows, some RAG, and small-scale enterprise app deployments.
I find it a very cool technology, but it is dumb yet. When unbounded, AI does some cool stuff. But building for complex workflows, I find, has resulted in a mixed bag of results. Very specific functions, such as mining data patterns, it is not bad at. But add gray area and it kind of takes stabs in the dark, much like a badly defined Web search.
Even our technical teams sell it as a 10-20% increase in efficiency, not a firesale position replacement. And they’re mandated to adopt and distribute it as widely through govt as possible.
In short, I think this is a fair assessment lol AI may replace us one day, but the models are far too new yet
Potentially useful for lots of thing, unfortunately, everyone seems fixated on stuff that is not ready for and probably wont be, or on hating everything involved.
Me? Mostly on the fence, hating most of what I see and hopeful for those useful applications.
The only things it’s good for are kinda evil.
No, it’s made it worse. I already automated the work “AI” could do before gpt was released.
Now when someone suggests a change there is always hallucinations of settings that don’t exist.
Tldr: I think current AI hype is trying to go to get to the moon by building a better ladder. It’s useful but for a few select things.
I’ve managed to automate some boring tedious task (get measurements from a dozen different wikipedia article, do simple maths with them), something that would take about an hour to do manually took 15 minutes to argue with an AI and fact check after.
Creative stuff (stories, pictures, music) is amusing for a while but I suspect they are stuck in the same kind of uncanny valley robots have been in for a long time.
It’s amazing. I use it as part of my work as a software developer, I get good advice from it regarding my personal life, and I can talk to it about topics that interest me but don’t interest my friends. Everything is great right now but I’m genuinely worried about the near future, when it might be able to do the entirety of my job better than I can. At least I got this far - I wonder whether my friends’ kids who were born recently will live in a future where they’ll never be capable of contributing anything valuable.
That part I am torn on, you can vent to it, give it your interests, advice, whatnot. I have gotten responses that have emotionally impacted me despite it all just being text prediction. I’d personally be careful which LLM you do this with and what you say to it.
There are some minor tools for small work that have been helpful, but overall it is intrusive slop.
Windows updates keep trying to add back ai.exe and aimgr.DLL to my office folder. Which I delete, because otherwise it randomly hogs CPU and bogs down the computer.
Then every damn app has a new AI panel that is garbage.
I haven’t used Windows 11 in a long time, is it true copilot is in notepad now?
Here’s the options the AI in notepad offers…
It is if you are subscribed to certain channels, but thankfully we have pro with ability to alter some group policies to block copilot.
I just checked on the work computer. It can activated, then it shows on the tool bar, but the moment I try to make it do something a pop up appears telling me that I need to pay for it.
