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I think all of the comments you are missing the point. We beginning to see the outsourcing of critical thinking to a few technology companies. We’ve stopped val

I think all of the comments you are missing the point. We beginning to see the outsourcing of critical thinking to a few technology companies. We’ve stopped valuing leaders that understand issues and can make sane decisions. Instead we pick leaders that present good sound bites or appear strong. They in turn do not understand the issues and can get quick and easy answers from AI that for the most part are pretty damn good. The most insidious part of this, is it gives us the feeling that we are still in control. When in reality, a few extremely powerful and extremely wealthy individuals are in a position to dramatically shape and shift policy. 15 years ago Google was still pretty damn good. Today most people agree that it’s departed from its original goals and in its efforts to make money actively censors and shapes the results it serves. The AI systems people use to make decisions will make this shift once they have a lock on the market. It’s wild to see the creation of a technological equivalent to the medieval Catholic Church. an entity that represents itself as benevolent to the masses, but in reality, exploits them and maintains a stranglehold over the political ruling class.

hu3 2y ago
Maybe Google search isn't good for some websites. But I don't recall last time I had to click page 2 of their search.
- lores 2y ago
  Uh. Google results are so irrelevant to me now that I've turned to using Perplexity instead, and just clicking on the provided links without paying much attention to its output.
MrJohz 2y ago
It doesn't necessarily sound like that's the case, though. It's difficult to get a good sense of the scale and extent of Kyle's usage of ChatGPT, but the examples cited in the article sound to me like he's using it for definitions (i.e. to replace Google), and messing around to try it out (with the podcast suggestions). It would be worrying if the report was that Kyle based some significant part of his decision-making on AI chatbots, but no-one here seems to be claiming that's the case. As it is, given the article only writes about two significant examples and a bunch of definitions, it sounds like he's not been using it much at all.
- bognition 2y ago
  Sure, but there is a slippery slope effect that could very well happen here. The more comfortable we get with the product and the better it gets the easier its going to be to delegate to them.

hu3 2y ago

Maybe Google search isn't good for some websites. But I don't recall last time I had to click page 2 of their search.

lores 2y ago
Uh. Google results are so irrelevant to me now that I've turned to using Perplexity instead, and just clicking on the provided links without paying much attention to its output.

MrJohz 2y ago

It doesn't necessarily sound like that's the case, though. It's difficult to get a good sense of the scale and extent of Kyle's usage of ChatGPT, but the examples cited in the article sound to me like he's using it for definitions (i.e. to replace Google), and messing around to try it out (with the podcast suggestions). It would be worrying if the report was that Kyle based some significant part of his decision-making on AI chatbots, but no-one here seems to be claiming that's the case. As it is, given the article only writes about two significant examples and a bunch of definitions, it sounds like he's not been using it much at all.

bognition 2y ago
Sure, but there is a slippery slope effect that could very well happen here. The more comfortable we get with the product and the better it gets the easier its going to be to delegate to them.