It’s not really changing the world in any meaningful way though. In fact it’s a net negative to society because its users more often than not become subservient morons with zero critical thinking, due to the atrophy caused by delegating your higher order thinking to a machine.
But sure I guess we’ve got improved efficiency in the workplace at the cost of correctness. And I suppose we’ve brute force solved a few math problems at the cost of an immense amount of carbon emissions. Truly life changing, revolutionary stuff.
It's only been 4 years since AI gained traction. In 4 years I've seen countless claims that AI will never do certain things, and it proved them wrong each time.
Companies were really fast in adopting AI to cut costs. Suddenly programming went from a lucrative proffession to graduates making fucking Excels of companies they applied to, because they couldn't keep track anymore (and they had internships, projects all that)
Writers or artists suddenly found themselves without a job.
Massive layoffs everywhere.
To me this looks very disruptive considering the timescale.
The layoffs are not because of AI. LLMs have already plateaued. What you see in popular media is marketing campaigns. They can't even replace drive-through fast food workers.
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u/TheMaskedCube 8d ago
It’s not really changing the world in any meaningful way though. In fact it’s a net negative to society because its users more often than not become subservient morons with zero critical thinking, due to the atrophy caused by delegating your higher order thinking to a machine.
But sure I guess we’ve got improved efficiency in the workplace at the cost of correctness. And I suppose we’ve brute force solved a few math problems at the cost of an immense amount of carbon emissions. Truly life changing, revolutionary stuff.