The global economy is probably already dependent on some Claude code instance updating an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop with a note ”don’t close the lid!” attached to it
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When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn't have drivers to support USB and we couldn't upgrade the computers because the software wouldn't work on any other hardware.
So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.
At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech's software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.
If you want to scare yourself:
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They serviced Medical devices: X-rays, MRIs, CT-Scanners, etc.
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Reminds me of some stupid company maybe a few months ago that had their PRs failing due to copilot being down the dumbasses didn't build an "if no AI" failsafe into their workflow. And no one knew how to recover it
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As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career
Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)
Millennials, particularly the younger millennials especially, grew up right in the sweet spot to be at a tech advantage. At least as far as the average person goes. Obviously anyone passionate about tech will be far ahead of the average person, regardless of age
Wholeheartedly agree. This is from 2013, and I feel it's only gotten worse since then.
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Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.
Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is...
Sure these systems are "obsolete" but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I'm not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I'm even saying this.
We tried to teach ours and got "dad can you just fix it I'm in a game". Then no desire to learn in free time.
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As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!
I agree. I am more than happy to pass the torch when the time comes. I certainly don’t want to work forever, but I also want to be able to train competent replacements at some point.
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Here's the funny thing .. they never worked to begin with!
I cannot stress enough how correct this is. It feels like it'd be similar to early Covid lockdown. People with real jobs that contribute to things are still working while everyone else with the cushy meaningless jobs are sent home to do nothing where they complain and make things harder for the people actually doing things.
I literally quit my job to join them because I couldn't take it anymore and was met with an insane amount of harassment. Apparently I had be lucky to be considered essential.
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Outages via This is why it's important to distinguish between LLMs and AI. Turn off all LLMs and life will go on. Turn off all AI and you lose everything from automated supply chain management to room ACs.
AI is such a broad term is to essentially be meaningless. My thermostat does not use AI it uses a very simple algorithm.
We have a OCR system at work that runs on a Windows XP computer, people used to call that AI until about 10 years ago.
LLMs are just a more complicated algorithm though. AI would be a pretty useful term so long as people are sure to make that distinction and only use AI to refer to a truly complex algorithm. Calling a thermostat algorithm on an A/C “AI” is definitely a meaningless use of the term
If it's deterministic, I don't see it as AI.
That would also mean that a lot of "AI" in games wouldn't actually be worthy of the name. Which actually I agree with.
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Jup, it's as if everyone magically forgot about pre-deep-learning AIs the moment Microsoft and OpenAI appropriated the word AI to mean LLM++.
Turn off ALL AI and you'll have windmills and power plants go rogue, ships will loose navigation and stabilization, planes falling down from the skies, and most important: the NPCs in your video games will only be able to react with the most simple interactions - terrible, truly!
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You are assuming they worked to begin with.
AI has been an amazing tool for those with no ability to think, to operate slightly like a person who can.
Like a peg leg helps a amutee walk. The issue is they are using to run and claiming they are the fastest.
This implies that the brains worked before.
Looking at the world, this is quite a bold assumption, I would say ...
I write well enough for the e-mails I'm required to send, I don't code, I have no use/desire to generate "art," and I don't like search results I have to double check so I've been blessed (cursed?) to not have to use "AI" in my daily life.
If we shutdown AI there'd also be a massive hiring spree and wages would probably tick up a bit to compensate. AI is just the latest scam to suppress workers and wages. They want perpetual suffering for us and infinite gains for themselves.
They weren't using their brains before ai, what made you think they would now?
Are YOU using your brain right now?
Please turn it off.. I am currently dealing with a ~~bunch of fu~~ well meaning but intellectually challenged individuals at an IT team who just reimaged a machine running the master database for one of their sites based on what a chatbot told them.
Now what concerns me most is that this site operates critical life saving equipment. While our software isn't too important, some minimum wage workers are about to have a very high stress weekend is about the worst that will happen and then early next week it should be back to normal. But the same IT team has access to the life saving equipment as well.
Something similar happened in January 2013. In protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills that threatened section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Wikipedia went dark.
It got everyone's attention, especially students, who had grown accustomed to Wikipedia's ubiquity as a resource.
The funny thing is my friend was all on the AI train. Lately he finally agrees with me that it's trash, they had him use it at work and he spent more time fixing the code.
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After a week:
Not sure who needs to hear this but... the average person isn't using AI for anything important, nor likely anything that really involves much thinking. Heck they aren't even choosing to use it, they are just doing a google search. Some of us use it for work. But for that case, I refer back to my first sentence.
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We should turn off AI for a week to see if people notice.
It is completely useless for the vast majority of users. By vast, I mean almost everyone.
Or forever.
Can you also turn off LLM generated websites for that week? If so, deal.
Semi-related: I turned off spellcheck and autocorrect for a month to see what happens. Turns out I'm more dependant on it than I realized.
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My sibling has learned incompetence from AI. They show off the things they had AI make and how they never could have done that themselves when they are things they know how to do themselves (make simple graphics and presentations), and would take much less time than they say they spent refining the prompts.
The CEO's brains are definitely broken. The rest of us? Mostly fine.
We should turn off AI.
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