A Critical Perspective on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence
This post features a social media thread questioning the societal benefits of artificial intelligence. The text challenges common assumptions about AI, arguing that it has not made life better, cheaper, or the internet a higher-quality space. The author further suggests that AI negatively impacts human creativity by allegedly stealing content and questions its overall contribution to human intelligence and environmental sustainability. The commentary reflects a skeptical viewpoint on the rapid integration of AI tools into daily life and digital culture.
It helps me a lot in my work as a lawyer though. Not for creation, but for analysis. For example, I sometimes have to read old notary files consisting out of 500+ handwritten pages with usage of language that was acceptable 100 years ago. All that to search for specific key piece
Personal computing, the internet, AI... all the same. All these are... to use a quote from one of the Steve Jobs movies (not sure if he said this or not, but I am sure it was in the movie, the concept is the important anyway): bicycle(s) for the mind. The smart and capable get mo
We are in the painful transition phase for AI, for sure. It's expensive, intrusive, disruptive... but if we manage it correctly and manage not to let rogue AI kill us all, it will be immensely beneficial eventually.
And yet AI is still more useful than OP with his cringe shitposts.
a thing that i was doing for 1 hour first thing in the morning is done automatically by AI in less than 1 minute i have more free time and my boss is happier than ever
AI does make your life way easier in some ways. You can simply outsource a part of menial mental labor to it and it will mostly give you what you're looking for. There's many downsides to using it of course, especially to a developing mind, but it's up to everyone or their parent
Apart from the hypocrisy of pirating is bad unless big corps do it and all that stuff..... It's simply the next industrial revolution. We're all like horse industrial people moaning about cars. Yes the internet is full of slop and it will get worse, but eventually it might get be
For scientists, AI is a huge jump forward. We can do now 100x what we could do before. Everyone will benefit from that.
AI can multiply the output of your talents manyfold. The problem is that if you multiply 0 by something, you still end up with 0
As a doctor, I must say that AI has helped me a lot with things that used to take too much time from my job (some of them not even having to do with patient care). For example: checking drug interactions in patients with extensive external service prescriptions, conducting work l