Friday AI - We welcome our robot overlords

BoomerClone

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No because AI is a tool. Of what makes someone an above average employee can be replaced with AI then their skill is no longer in demand. It’s like punishing someone using excel instead of paper. The person that is able to leverage the tools to get the best result is your actual high performing employee. Not someone who’s skill set is becoming irrelevant
I understand it is a tool. Not one that should be used to improve one’s advantage.

I guess I’m an old “”fart” I also don’t spend endless hours on a message board that I’m not even a fan of. Hmmmmm
 
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No because AI is a tool. Of what makes someone an above average employee can be replaced with AI then their skill is no longer in demand. It’s like punishing someone using excel instead of paper. The person that is able to leverage the tools to get the best result is your actual high performing employee. Not someone who’s skill set is becoming irrelevant
Boomer’s great grandpa wouldn’t hire anyone that used a calculator I heard.
 

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Username checks out...
Not sure why you would consider "Call me old school" and your handle BoomerClone checking out as dumb. I think anyone would say Boomer and old school often go together and it isn't a slam.

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FriendlySpartan

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No worries. I'm used to it now :).

I don't really post anymore. I don't even know if I'm trying to say what I'm thinking about. Stay try to read or listen a speech, it's WHOOSH for everything now.
Nah I got what you were saying and you actually touched on a very interesting topic with AI and deepfakes, people often are not able to differentiate between what’s real and what’s not. As AI improves and kids are raised online that line becomes harder and harder to differentiate
 
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Nah I got what you were saying and you actually touched on a very interesting topic with AI and deepfakes, people often are not able to differentiate between what’s real and what’s not. As AI improves and kids are raised online that line becomes harder and harder to differentiate

Ya that's why I was commenting into the Idiocracy world. If people can't figure out a picture of Caitlin Clark with lingerie with DD breast if it's fake or not, well they screwed. Now I was researching about all the deepfakes with dumb people, and now I get advertisement AI apps that you can put your friend pictures into make them naked. Such a crazy world that you can "see" anyone naked (or think about it) with a click a button.

Teenagers just do this with all their friends with their moms and send it. Lol.
 

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Ya that's why I was commenting into the Idiocracy world. If people can't figure out a picture of Caitlin Clark with lingerie with DD breast if it's fake or not, well they screwed. Now I was researching about all the deepfakes with dumb people, and now I get advertisement AI apps that you can put your friend pictures into make them naked. Such a crazy world that you can "see" anyone naked (or think about it) with a click a button.

Teenagers just do this with all their friends with their moms and send it. Lol.
Yeah the deepfake xxx photos in schools of flow students and peers is a real problem. Some are super obvious but some are getting to the point that people believe them and then sharing them around
 

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I strongly disagree with that. If someone has low initiative that doesn’t compute with the person that is setting up a bunch of AI systems to get the work done for them. They have to learn the AI and how to best utilize it.

If AI can take an average employee and bump them up to a high performing one chances are that high performing employee wasn’t doing anything that special, they were just spending more time on it.

Making less time for random BS that AI can do doesn’t mean low IQ people win, it means that the high performers are only good at skills that people didn’t want to waste time on.

I agree. And, I mean, to be mercenary (and I say this as someone who is has always done well in school/work) - do I really care HOW they are high-performing, so long as they are? I want it to be ethical and all of that, but if someone good can get five things done in the time it takes someone excellent to do two manually, who is ultimately helping the bottom line more?

I say this as a big fan of doing things the "right way" in every situation. Sometimes the "right way" means evolving methodology. Now, let's take our someone good who did five things well with AI and our someone excellent who did two things manually - let's now have the someone excellent use AI. We're going to now see them perform ten, etc.

The long-term answer isn't going to be to have nobody use AI, it's not practical. The long-term solution is going to be that everyone will use it (especially since they already are without even knowing it). Raging against this machine is just going to leave someone obsolete.
 
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Nah I got what you were saying and you actually touched on a very interesting topic with AI and deepfakes, people often are not able to differentiate between what’s real and what’s not. As AI improves and kids are raised online that line becomes harder and harder to differentiate
Deep fake area and that whole realm is where my hesitation starts. Use it to draft all the resumes and slide decks you want. The all in white tech bros aren't the populations who will be exploited and they are already lobbying a dinosauresque political body (on tech!) to limit regulation.

Ads in your dreams has been mentioned more than once now. Pics of Taylor Swift and such.....we're so far behind on revenge p*rn laws already that AI is a whole other mountain. Modeling bias.... The way it can be used to worsen misinformation...ugh.
 
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AI is some scary sh*t. I was at a training seminar and the AI guru found out I was an architect and asked me to describe a private residence I’d like to design. Then AI spits it out… The scary part was it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad. If it AI learns how to create structural systems and architectural details for construction drawings…I’m f*cked.
 

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AI is some scary sh*t. I was at a training seminar and the AI guru found out I was an architect and asked me to describe a private residence I’d like to design. Then AI spits it out… The scary part was it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad. If it AI learns how to create structural systems and architectural details for construction drawings…I’m f*cked.

According to the @FriendlySpartan you must not do anything all that special. In my example the process includes reviews, calculation, and analysis from around 100 sources. AI can do this right now. It's going to completely replace a highly skilled employee very soon.

"If AI can take an average employee and bump them up to a high performing one chances are that high performing employee wasn’t doing anything that special, they were just spending more time on it."
 

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According to the @FriendlySpartan you must not do anything all that special. In my example the process includes reviews, calculation, and analysis from around 100 sources. AI can do this right now. It's going to completely replace a highly skilled employee very soon.

"If AI can take an average employee and bump them up to a high performing one chances are that high performing employee wasn’t doing anything that special, they were just spending more time on it."
I agree it’s going to make many jobs obsolete. That’s isn’t your argument as your saying it’s going to take an average employee and make them great where the great employee stagnet. In his argument their isn’t and an average or great employee there is just AI replacing the job entirely.

The person that takes over that role might not even have much of a design background they will most likely just know how to best utilize AI. But make no mistake AI will put a lot of people out of jobs.