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.
Ai pisses me off so much every day. It has made people so dumb and reliant on it. When I was a kid I didn’t have school or opportunities, just a computer. That computer expanded my universe and gave me the education I craved. I learned to fix computers both physically and virtually to eventually claw my way to my current software engineering career. All completely self taught with ZERO education. When I say zero I mean the last grade of school I graduated was 6th grade in 2001. I am still learning every day despite the ai bullshit. Especially these past 6 months, I decided to upgrade my personal computer that was using windows 7(lmao 🔥) to a newly built machine now running on Linux.
I refuse to use AI. I have proven over and over to my coworkers that AI makes our job worse. My coworkers create so many mistakes with AI and then they ask me to help because they don’t quite understand what AI has written for them. Ai is a plague on our intelligence. I hope it completely fails (it probably won’t 😖)