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It seems there are parts of "the world" that are indeed being taken over by "AI". And other aspects of reality that are unaffected. What is your view? Are you being asked to use it at work? Are you running into it in unexpected places?

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Samuel Smith

We are "highly encouraged" to use AI at work here. I use it, but an leery of becoming dependent on it. Let it think for you too much and your brain turns to mush.
It's great for drudgery, work that's boring and doesn't require much thought. That saves time so you can get to the parts where you do need to think.
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Mark Wollschlager

I am concerned that it is being used by businesses I have to work with. It is one thing that I have not had any experience using other than a customer service chat that may or may not have been a human.
I am less concerned about the existence of AI, than I am about the reckless race to be the first to fully monetize it at any cost.
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Fred's using Gemini to help him with home assistant programming 😶

I've started using a program, created by a realtor, that locks you out of time sucking phone use for an hour after 30 minutes. The innovative part is you can shorten that time by walking. She had an idea, fleshed it out using Gemini and did a lot of work to troubleshoot it before posting it. I think that's a best case use.

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Just because we can make and use a technology doesn't mean that we should. I believe the movie Oppenheimer had something of that lesson mixed in with all the drama. We definitely should have learned a similar lesson from Dr Josef Mengele: just because you can do an experiment on a living subject doesn't mean you should.

I believe in appropriate technology. How will this technology enhance life? Does it take over jobs people don't want? Does it do those things that are dangerous to human workers? Does it help heal the sick or protect the environment? Will it enhance everyone's well-being?

Between the volume of humanity and the degradation of our environment, we must start making choices. What can we do without in order to save ourselves? I'm pretty sure we could do without enormous data centres that suck up water and use up electricity, so that an AI can be put into your toothbrush.

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Carsten Raddatz

AI is very much in all domains of IT and adjacent work, at least those areas I touch. However, I proudly wear this to mock uncritical use and self-inflicted dependence.


(some fedi account had this first)

Also, none of planning rounds to use AI in the future makes this any more efficient: working groups taking weeks over weeks to draft a plan how beneficial use could look like is more akin to Death By Meeting than solving a problem by avoiding it.

Bestest example: while using an LLM for code generation is a smart idea and gives people like me the ability to program, the f*ck will I do and e.g. rely on it with no code review, or debug output or a log file. Easiest way out: have the thing generate code, and for repeated use re-run the code, not the LLM prompt.

But yeah, most of this is hype-driven and has proven detrimental to the environment. Resistance to land and resource grab is growing.

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Jodi

It seems to be everywhere. Not at work because I can control that. But otherwise forced down our throats. And it sucks.

When new tech is actually useful, nobody needs to be coerced to use it. They just embrace it.

I even saw a post saying some company decided that low-level coding tasks ate up too many tokens, so they hired a human instead. They "invented" employees.

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Lisa Stranger

funny you should ask... I had my first experience with AI voice customer service yesterday

I was not told that I was not speaking to a human (and they had fake keyboard noises in the background 😒)

it was surprisingly conversational, but still obviously not a person

some time in the next couple of days I'll find out if what they told me was true (I have my doubts)... if it wasn't, then I get to call back again, and start arguing to get in the queue with a human

but I actually got to "talk" to "somebody" almost immediately, rather than sitting on hold, so...

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Lisa Stranger

produce update: turns out there was an unread text message languishing on Mr. Stranger's phone 😒 (this is An Issue with him) from neighbor guy saying that the greens were his and he'd gotten a bunch of the tomatoes "for free" 🤷‍♀️

we inherited some cut broccoli from him this way once before 🤨

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