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18 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 16h \ parent \ on: The AI doomers are not making an argument. They’re selling a worldview. AI

Do you feel that the LLM as we know it today is (or could be in a followup iterarion) as big a game changer as electricity or the public internet as quoted above?

I still have deep doubts. Sure, it can hurt search engines immensely, but I won't really cry over google losing part of its revenue. The disruptor eventually becomes a sweet incumbent target for disruption. Cyber-darwinism.

111 sats \ 4 replies \ @freetx 16h

To be honest I debate that as well. I think it will have less of an impact than internet but more of an impact than say "Google" or "Social Media".

The "hell" I worry about is not being gunned down by sentient AI drones, but rather losing any ability to find a decision maker in any given context.

Imagine the hell we feel now trying to call a MegaCorp (ie. Cable company) to get some problem resolved....now multiply that by 100.

Your debit card will stop working one day and you wont be able to talk to anyone to find out why or what you can do to fix it.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 15h

more of an impact than say "Google" or "Social Media".

Currently I rate it "as bad an impact as social media" but only for the ready-made consumer apps, because what these really do is establish addiction for the masses, just like FB/Twitter. The business integrations are in some cases better but many people I've chatted with lately are on the negative sentiment; that it's more trouble than it's helping ultimately.

rather losing any ability to find a decision maker in any given context.

Very good point. Plus any managers won't even know the policies they are supposed to manage as those were generated, so they'll just say "no". It'll be a great time being a lawyer I guess! Laughing all the way to the bank gets a 100x too.

211 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 15h

Plus any managers won't even know the policies they are supposed to manage as those were generated, so they'll just say "no"

The one benefit is maybe when we call MegaCorp instead of the soulless automated voice system we have now, we can be told our questions are "Amazing" and our complaints have "Excellent Insight!"

Then finally... when the AI bot ultimately can't solve the problem maybe we can witness it go into a schitzo doom loop and finally admit to us that it utterly failed and should be permanently turned off.