I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.
I'm not even curious about it.
It's not just the mistakes. Hallucinations. Artificial confidence.
It's not just the unconscionable energy use. Laundering and reinforcement of historical biases. Ripoff of creative works. Exploited workers. Scams. Bots. Political propaganda. Mass surveillance to train the beast. And this is just off the top of my head here.
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It's not just about how the story of how AI will make us all so much more "productive" that we'll all have much more free time, which has been told many times in modern history and has never been broadly true.
It is all that.
And.
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On a personal level.
I got curious about computers because they are things I'm able to be curious about. That's it. That's the spark. I can explore them and learn how they work.
Computers are hard sometimes. Sometimes we can figure out ways to make them easier. But if we instead automate doing hard things, using AI to make doing hard things less effort, it doesn't lead to a place I'm excited about.
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@sunfish I largely share these feelings and the concerns you outlined. But I've also accepted that they're not going away and not having familiarity with them is going to quickly become a limiting factor in decision making, at the least. So I've started using them on a limited basis, but only for things where they can genuinely provide value through augmentation. E.g., summarizing text to help me find perspectives I might have missed: https://fosstodon.org/@tlockney/113517610598397126
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