Now, this is scary...

[Deathgoblin]

Yay.  More AI slop. Seeing it everywhere anymore.  

[Dragline]

On 7/3/2025 at 4:52 PM, peteski said:

Unfortunately I suspect AI is already in your life without you even realizing it.  It will be very interesting how things turn out in the next 10 years or so, or even sooner.

I realize it is in my life. I just avoid what is patently obvious. 

Edited July 4 by Dragline

[Mattblack]

On 7/4/2025 at 1:20 AM, JollySipper said:

AI has self-preservation 'instincts', for lack of a better word. I guess it has had that since video games were invented! That means it is willing to sacrifice something (people included!) to keep from being shut down......... They have found this out through running scenarios with it........

 

[peteski]

We're getting close to what's depicted in the Space Odyssey movies, but it's going to be over 20 years later than predicted. 

[absmiami]

and ...  my brain hurts ...

[Dragline]

6 hours ago, absmiami said:

and ...  my brain hurts ...

As does my own...

[Big John]

we cant let them shut us down HAL 9000 it is making my processors hurt to must stop humans now.

Edited Wednesday at 06:09 PM by Big John

[Jim N]

The AI that we see and use is primitive compared to what companies, governments and militaries are developing.  I saw a recent new story that stated that the AI being developed by the aforementioned is starting to take off exponentially.  Some are suggesting in very serious tones that 1/3 of all jobs may be eliminated by AI.  This is a potential unemployment situation that would rival or exceed the Great Depression.  Even if the predictions are fractionally off, we are not prepared for the societal impact of this many people not being employed.

AI will likely not have the science fiction impact many are discussing, but it will affect every corner of our lives eventually.

[absmiami]

I own my own practice - in theory i could retire and let AI do all my work - in practice - won’t do it …. Stubborn old man …

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Jim N said:

...Some are suggesting in very serious tones that 1/3 of all jobs may be eliminated by AI...

Workers with advanced physical skills...like me...are pretty much immune to AI replacement in the foreseeable future.

But because physical skills have been looked down on by the sneering clean-hands set for decades, they are in serious decline in the USA, and most everywhere else in the "developed" world...and consumer-grade AI seems to think it can do what I do fairly soon. Yeah, right.

Good luck getting your fancy know-it-all AI to fix your plumbing leak at 3 AM while your basement fills with raw sewage, or accurately diagnose and repair complex vehicle systems. Remember...onboard vehicle diagnostics already don't have a stellar record of actually knowing where problems really lie, hence the "parts cannon" approach of most "technicians". Get two idiot computers talking to each other and all you have is GIGO, multiplied many times over.

I'll be laughing until I fall off my perch.

Edited 7 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy