I don’t know. The question for me would be if the technology is supplemental and elective, able to be disconnected and unplugged, or if it would become permanently ubiquitous.
I’m not sure what the purpose would be of plugging in vs manually making commands on a device, unless our brains are integrated to the point of immediate processing and data transfer like an organic thought.
Then it could be beneficial I guess. Slightly more efficient than manual prompting.
But if it becomes a scenario where we have to permanently implant the technology and we essentially become an organic medium for the internet, I’m not interested myself. Especially if we become secondary to the program we are hosting. This evokes an image of sacrificial parasitic hosting vs. supplemental technology integration to me.
I’ve been using AI. So far it has helped everyone have an easier time. Lots of mundane bullshit has been turned in to automated process. Sometimes this looks like more effort, but really effort is being swapped from low value time-sucks to higher value activity like more new client acquisition or product expansion efforts.
Ethics are a big piece of the AI conversation. In my case, people are rewarded for production. So if they’re going to spend 40 hours per week working, they’re now rewarded for more of these hours essentially, where many hours were absorbed on administrative crap.
However, in a scenario where output isn’t directly rewarded in a 1:1 way, I agree the tool could create abuse by allowing an employer to pile on more work with more realized result, but without requisite compensation.
On the real life stuff, which I do take seriously:
When all the federal dollars got cut off last year my neices husband along with many others lost his job working in public parks management. I expressed some empathy and shared with her my similar experience- in summation: The pen is mightier than the sword. One stroke and millions fall. Fortunes are made and lost on them.
I think she was miffed with me for a good while, but has since warmed back up.
Not really feasible for a 40-50+ year old to take up big welding jobs.
Your certainly going to be doing more work for low pay and you’ll never be able to compete with a 20year experienced 40year old.
Also while AI might not replace a welder soon, that’s the plan.
The petri dish brain thing is definitely creepy. It sounds like sci-fi but using biological matter for computing has been in R&D for a while. I doubt it replaces silicon anytime soon though because it’s way harder to maintain.
I’m not laughing at your agony, just the irony.