For the curious. The TLDR gist of the article is essentially.
Massive Technological and Economic Change/upheaval due to AI and Robotics is coming. Whether we want it to or not. Most financial incentives for Business are starting to switch towards adoption. And capabilities/reliability of the models are expanding extremely quickly. Use this time to adapt and figure out how to use these new tools. Before you are swamped by the legions of other people who waited till last minute to figure it out. Pivot into roles/careers where adoption due to various factors will be slower if you can. Start teaching your kids how to use these new tools. Place less emphasis on amazing expensive school/Good degree or certification. As some of those careers and fields aren’t liable to exist in any meaningful fashion in a decade.
I did it the old fashioned way of reading and summarizing this time. Though I’m working up to seriously experimenting with AI. But my inner old man is resistant. The most I’ve done thus far is messing with some image generators.
Take your collection of lures to an aquarium and show each one to the fish through the glass. You can gauge their interest immediately. I saw a video of this a few days ago.
An Ai can read every article, book, scientific study, and internet post ever written about fishing lures, plus every biological study done about every kind of fish in the world, and what attracts them in a matter seconds or minutes.
Don't underestimate what Ai can figure out about what makes a good fishing lure. Test it yourself even, ask Grok.
To be fair. Most of the people outsourcing their thinking to AI didn’t do much of it to start with. All that’s really changing is instead of an Influencer or Talking Head giving them their assortment of contradictory thoughts and opinions for the day. A Hallucinating Machine is doing it instead. Doubtful we’ll notice much of a difference society wise.
Though the people still capable of thinking for themselves will have a wider selection of advanced tools to leverage and create opportunities for themselves
I've heard this argument over and over and over. In the real world, AI has been shoved into search engines, word processors, email clients, even god damn PDF readers. I'm not the only one who is endlessly annoyed by its constant interjections and pop-ups asking me to use it that I can't permanently disable.
The article itself sounds like it was written by AI. If AI is so good that apps can be coded in hours with current paid tools, why aren't they popping up on all the app stores? My mind is open, show me one and I'll believe the wave is actually coming.
That intrusiveness reminds of me of that "Clippy" character that Microsoft Word had for a short time.
That's one of a long list of reasons that I don't use it, but I use WordPerfect instead. It's the most powerful word processing program out there. I write books that Word would gag on.
The simple answer- job security, for the people who write programs. The capability to program computers to write their own code has existed for decades. But, the older generation of programers were mostly smart enough to not build those Ai tools, mostly for their own job security.
Fast forward to today. That dam has broken. Computers have recently started writing their own programming. The time is rapidly approaching for Ai to flood that market, and many others. It's not hype, it's reality. Don't take it from me, but do heed the words of the worlds richest, and one of the worlds smartest men- Elon Musk.
Gemini provided me with code lines to copy into batch files to run in Task scheduler so I could automatically prevent my new "gaming" (I'm not a gamer...just like fast computer) laptop from regularly throttling the core speeds. It would hit 105C instantly at startup and regularly thereafter regardless of what I was doing on the computer. As an aside, I think its done (by Acer, in this case) so the computer will just barely make it through the warranty period. Anyway...this is a situation where I found AI to be very helpful, as I don't code. Now, the CPU never exceeds ~90C, even in Superposition benchmark, with very little difference in the score.
After this experience, I can see where "computers...writing there own programming" is a dam that is definitely broken.
The capability to program computers to write their own code has existed for decades
AI was basically useless for today's purposes until the Google Transformer paper was released in 2017.
Don't take it from me, but do heed the words of the worlds richest, and one of the worlds smartest men- Elon Musk.
Yeah, the guy who said we'd have full self driving 5 years ago. That guy has some great ideas. But he dreams of things that are 100x awesome and creates things that are 10x awesome. Reference to authority, especially one with a history of being wrong on big predictions, is a logical fallacy.
Here’s a tip on creating amazing books: Take a transcript of one of your recent broadcasts or podcasts and simply paste the transcript into the book prompt. That’s it! The entire book will be created from there.
Neat tool! I tried reading a few of the generated books, and it rephrases the incoming content into a book style. A bit repetitive for my taste but definitely an interesting app.
For the curious. The TLDR gist of the article is essentially.
Massive Technological and Economic Change/upheaval due to AI and Robotics is coming. Whether we want it to or not. Most financial incentives for Business are starting to switch towards adoption. And capabilities/reliability of the models are expanding extremely quickly. Use this time to adapt and figure out how to use these new tools. Before you are swamped by the legions of other people who waited till last minute to figure it out. Pivot into roles/careers where adoption due to various factors will be slower if you can. Start teaching your kids how to use these new tools. Place less emphasis on amazing expensive school/Good degree or certification. As some of those careers and fields aren’t liable to exist in any meaningful fashion in a decade.
I used AI to give me the TLDR /s
I used a.i. to skim & summarize this thread. 🙃😉🐸
Matt Schumer used AI to write this article.
Kill all humans
Yeah, Ratrod. I've see Terminator too.
It’s documentary.
Don't be antisemitic , goy
lol,,, did you use Ai to break it down?😁
I did it the old fashioned way of reading and summarizing this time. Though I’m working up to seriously experimenting with AI. But my inner old man is resistant. The most I’ve done thus far is messing with some image generators.
I’m in the same boat.
Hell,,, im the guy the article warned about (using ai as I would google and basing everything I know off of that😳)
Just the fact that I posted this article probably says I know more than that, but none of it has been tried out or applied.
*Time to stop just reading, and begin to act!
Can AI design a good fishing lure ?
Take your collection of lures to an aquarium and show each one to the fish through the glass. You can gauge their interest immediately. I saw a video of this a few days ago.
“If” the data set for what makes a good lure is online, and it is, then yeah.
lol that came out of nowhere.lol Im a fisherman let me know what ai comes up with. lol
An Ai can read every article, book, scientific study, and internet post ever written about fishing lures, plus every biological study done about every kind of fish in the world, and what attracts them in a matter seconds or minutes.
Don't underestimate what Ai can figure out about what makes a good fishing lure. Test it yourself even, ask Grok.
Better find out so you can be the best fishing guide in your area after AI takes your desk job.
“Break it down”?
OK MC Hammer… 🤣😘
Now stop,
Hammer time.
🫡😁😇🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌
Society should prepare to outsource the already paltry amount of thinking it does to a hallucinating machine? Awesome.
To be fair. Most of the people outsourcing their thinking to AI didn’t do much of it to start with. All that’s really changing is instead of an Influencer or Talking Head giving them their assortment of contradictory thoughts and opinions for the day. A Hallucinating Machine is doing it instead. Doubtful we’ll notice much of a difference society wise.
Though the people still capable of thinking for themselves will have a wider selection of advanced tools to leverage and create opportunities for themselves
Yeah,,, that term “hallucinating” sounds awful. Whatever genius came up with that name has probably already lost their job.
I've heard this argument over and over and over. In the real world, AI has been shoved into search engines, word processors, email clients, even god damn PDF readers. I'm not the only one who is endlessly annoyed by its constant interjections and pop-ups asking me to use it that I can't permanently disable.
The article itself sounds like it was written by AI. If AI is so good that apps can be coded in hours with current paid tools, why aren't they popping up on all the app stores? My mind is open, show me one and I'll believe the wave is actually coming.
That intrusiveness reminds of me of that "Clippy" character that Microsoft Word had for a short time.
That's one of a long list of reasons that I don't use it, but I use WordPerfect instead. It's the most powerful word processing program out there. I write books that Word would gag on.
I understand your skepticism, but I assure you, those apps are coming.
The simple answer- job security, for the people who write programs. The capability to program computers to write their own code has existed for decades. But, the older generation of programers were mostly smart enough to not build those Ai tools, mostly for their own job security.
Fast forward to today. That dam has broken. Computers have recently started writing their own programming. The time is rapidly approaching for Ai to flood that market, and many others. It's not hype, it's reality. Don't take it from me, but do heed the words of the worlds richest, and one of the worlds smartest men- Elon Musk.
Gemini provided me with code lines to copy into batch files to run in Task scheduler so I could automatically prevent my new "gaming" (I'm not a gamer...just like fast computer) laptop from regularly throttling the core speeds. It would hit 105C instantly at startup and regularly thereafter regardless of what I was doing on the computer. As an aside, I think its done (by Acer, in this case) so the computer will just barely make it through the warranty period. Anyway...this is a situation where I found AI to be very helpful, as I don't code. Now, the CPU never exceeds ~90C, even in Superposition benchmark, with very little difference in the score.
After this experience, I can see where "computers...writing there own programming" is a dam that is definitely broken.
AI was basically useless for today's purposes until the Google Transformer paper was released in 2017.
Yeah, the guy who said we'd have full self driving 5 years ago. That guy has some great ideas. But he dreams of things that are 100x awesome and creates things that are 10x awesome. Reference to authority, especially one with a history of being wrong on big predictions, is a logical fallacy.
Mike Adams vibe coded a book generator. I tried it and it works very well.
Neat tool! I tried reading a few of the generated books, and it rephrases the incoming content into a book style. A bit repetitive for my taste but definitely an interesting app.
I found it to be pretty cool. Want a textbook on something? Just write a prompt