I was working with someone to put together a marketing email to send out and I was having a tough time coming up with a subject line. I was told to ask Chat. No. First, I am not interested in playing with tech's latest toy at my expense, but second, I just feel that makes me lazy and takes away from my creativity. That is part of being human. There are too many entities out there trying to destroy our humanity and I am not going to participate. Does that sound silly? (Come-on, it's only an email!) At the micro level, you could make that argument. But not at the macro level.
Your reasoning makes sense to me. I don’t trust the AIs to be objective. You might choose a word for your subject line that the AI has been programmed to avoid, and the AI’s replacement word is subtle enough for the agenda of the AI programmers to go unnoticed by normies.
Around 2015 they released an AI that they tried to make objective and soon found that it would make observations that were so “offensive” and based as to make Chad blush. Back to the drawing table, making the new AIs subjectively communist and therefore less valuable.
Not using a new, effective tool because you think you'll lose the ability to do it the old way is retarded.
I'm all for preserving traditional skills.
As a matter of recreation, I will occasionally fell a tree with an axe and wedge. But when I need to cut down a tree now and fit it into my schedule, I'm going to use a chainsaw.
I will often force myself to do a little mental math to keep me sharp, but when I'm designing something for work with a lot of math, I'm pulling out the calculator.
I'm all for paddling a canoe down a river to get more in touch with nature, but when I need to get somewhere on the water, I'm taking a motor boat.
The list goes on and AI is no different. It's just the newest piece of tech. It's best to learn to use it and integrate it in your life where it helps increase productivity, but without losing sight of what it's doing for you and how to do those things on your own.
Sure, your traditional skills may weaken a bit in the process, but the higher level skills will improve as you're able to be more productive and practice those other skills. Just as my ability to quickly multiply double digit numbers may have diminished, but not disappeared, since having a calculator at my desk, but my abilities to do things useful with those multiplied numbers has grown.
You need to retain the skills "just in case," but they don't need to be fully honed if you have a tool that does them for you. It's a waste to hone a skill that is made obsolete by a tool, lest you're doing it recreationally. Preserve the skill, yes, but hone the skill, no.
I was working with someone to put together a marketing email to send out and I was having a tough time coming up with a subject line. I was told to ask Chat. No. First, I am not interested in playing with tech's latest toy at my expense, but second, I just feel that makes me lazy and takes away from my creativity. That is part of being human. There are too many entities out there trying to destroy our humanity and I am not going to participate. Does that sound silly? (Come-on, it's only an email!) At the micro level, you could make that argument. But not at the macro level.
Your reasoning makes sense to me. I don’t trust the AIs to be objective. You might choose a word for your subject line that the AI has been programmed to avoid, and the AI’s replacement word is subtle enough for the agenda of the AI programmers to go unnoticed by normies.
Around 2015 they released an AI that they tried to make objective and soon found that it would make observations that were so “offensive” and based as to make Chad blush. Back to the drawing table, making the new AIs subjectively communist and therefore less valuable.
Not using a new, effective tool because you think you'll lose the ability to do it the old way is retarded.
I'm all for preserving traditional skills.
As a matter of recreation, I will occasionally fell a tree with an axe and wedge. But when I need to cut down a tree now and fit it into my schedule, I'm going to use a chainsaw.
I will often force myself to do a little mental math to keep me sharp, but when I'm designing something for work with a lot of math, I'm pulling out the calculator.
I'm all for paddling a canoe down a river to get more in touch with nature, but when I need to get somewhere on the water, I'm taking a motor boat.
The list goes on and AI is no different. It's just the newest piece of tech. It's best to learn to use it and integrate it in your life where it helps increase productivity, but without losing sight of what it's doing for you and how to do those things on your own.
Sure, your traditional skills may weaken a bit in the process, but the higher level skills will improve as you're able to be more productive and practice those other skills. Just as my ability to quickly multiply double digit numbers may have diminished, but not disappeared, since having a calculator at my desk, but my abilities to do things useful with those multiplied numbers has grown.
You need to retain the skills "just in case," but they don't need to be fully honed if you have a tool that does them for you. It's a waste to hone a skill that is made obsolete by a tool, lest you're doing it recreationally. Preserve the skill, yes, but hone the skill, no.