When I was young and starting out with computers, programming, BBS’ and later the early internet, technology was something that expanded my mind, helped me to research, learn new skills, and meet people and have interesting conversations. Something decentralized that put power into the hands of the little guy who could start his own business venture with his PC or expand his skillset.
Where we are now with AI, the opposite seems to be happening. We are asking AI to do things for us rather than learning how to do things ourselves. We are losing our research skills. Many people are talking to AI’s about their problems instead of other people. And they will take away our jobs and centralize all power into a handful of billionaire sociopaths with robot armies to carry out whatever nefarious deeds they want to do.
I hope we somehow make it through this part of history with some semblance of freedom and autonomy intact, but I’m having a hard time seeing how.
Yep, its definitely gotten worse. Thats why I just live as if its 2005 in my house xD
It’s a real dilemma unfortunately. On one hand if you don’t get used to using it you will be at a massive disadvantage in whatever’s left of a job market in the future. On the other hand if you do get used to using it you will likely be atrophying parts of your brain and giving money to exactly the machine that will destroy us.