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No surprise here, same can be true of IT. I remember a time before PCs and most work was done on Mainframes and paper w/file cabinets. Compared to now, the am
by jmclnx 2y ago
No surprise here, same can be true of IT. I remember a time before PCs and most work was done on Mainframes and paper w/file cabinets.
Compared to now, the amount of work is about the same, or maybe a bit more than back then. But the big difference is the amount of data being processed and kept, that increased exponentially since then and is still increasing.
So I expect the same with AI, maybe the work is a bit different, but work will be the same or more as data increases.
- selfhoster 2y ago> No surprise here, same can be true of IT. I remember a time before PCs and most work was done on Mainframes and paper w/file cabinets. I understand your point but it lacks accuracy in that mainframes, paper and filing cabinets are deterministic tools. AI is neither deterministic nor a tool.
- signatoremo 2y ago> AI is neither deterministic nor a tool You keep repeating this in this thread, but as has been refuted elsewhere, this doesn't mean AI is not productive. A tool it definitely can be. Your handwriting is non deterministic, yet you could write reports with it.
- codr7 2y agoYes, but the one thing computers had going for them over humans was determinism, and we just threw that out the window.
- signatoremo 2y agoWe did not throw that out the window. AI is new capability on top of what the computer is already capable of
- codr7 2y agoNo, AI is a computer pretending (badly) to be human.
- thowawatp302 2y agoIf AI isn’t either of those things, then what is it?
- xigency 2y agoUnironically it's a form of occult divination. I know it sounds crazy but it really is the synthesis of humans' collective works combined with some dice rolls. I'm quite honestly surprised someone more superstitious than I am hasn't raised this point yet (that I've seen).