I'm not sure they will
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antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 26 minutes ago
ddplf@szmer.info 18 minutes ago
oh okay
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 45 minutes ago
This reminds me of people in the past making fun of these using computers and calling them dorks and nerds. Personally i’m much concerned with people who use memes and pictures as a form of debate
red_tomato@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The global economy is probably already dependent on some Claude code instance updating an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop with a note ”don’t close the lid!” attached to it
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn’t have drivers to support USB and we couldn’t upgrade the computers because the software wouldn’t work on any other hardware.
So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.
dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech’s software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.
If you want to scare yourself:
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They serviced Medical devices: X-rays, MRIs, CT-Scanners, etc.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
That’s dumb. The “work” in maintaining this excel file was the prompting and overall agent logic. In reality you’d be using something like openrouter and the instant claude “dies” for whatever reason you swap to whatever the freshest AI is. This never becomes ancient, it keeps up with the times.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Reminds me of some stupid company maybe a few months ago that had their PRs failing due to copilot being down the dumbasses didn’t build an “if no AI” failsafe into their workflow. And no one knew how to recover it
chisel@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I know my work already has reports built by running data through Claude and having it spit out an xls. Though, it’s not quite as integral as the all-important closet laptop.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 1 hour ago
we should disable all cars and public transport for a week to see whether people’s legs still work
Maroon@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
Without cars, people can walk, but not go very far. Without AI, people can think like they used to, just without slop being introduced in the mess.
Don’t try to get smart using false equivalence. You have a level of stupidity that even perfect AI can’t fix.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 36 minutes ago
Bike Gang stays winning
BrickEater@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
Literally not the same. You can live just fine without AI, not so much without transport.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 25 minutes ago
well you could live well without mechanized transport roughly around the time that cars were first introduced.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Eff it. Turn off the internet and see if folks can figure out the Dewey Decimal System
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
You can’t do what you never learned in the first place
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
The US government is now all AI run, so it would affect all those empty suits in washington for sure. They may actually have to do work themselves for once.
dudeface@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 43 minutes ago
They will if you don’t use AI though
dudeface@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
Don’t believe you, seems like useless nonsense to me
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
We tried to teach ours and got “dad can you just fix it I’m in a game”. Then no desire to learn in free time.
Tower@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Wholeheartedly agree. This is from 2013, and I feel it’s only gotten worse since then.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.
Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is…
Sure these systems are “obsolete” but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I’m not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I’m even saying this.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The older gen z too I would say
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I agree. I am more than happy to pass the torch when the time comes. I certainly don’t want to work forever, but I also want to be able to train competent replacements at some point.
Ribbons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
So far, so good.
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likebudda@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
I write well enough for the e-mails I’m required to send, I don’t code, I have no use/desire to generate “art,” and I don’t like search results I have to double check so I’ve been blessed (cursed?) to not have to use “AI” in my daily life.
cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If we shutdown AI there’d also be a massive hiring spree and wages would probably tick up a bit to compensate. AI is just the latest scam to suppress workers and wages. They want perpetual suffering for us and infinite gains for themselves.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Now do social media and perhaps the Internet, in general.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
This is why it’s important to distinguish between LLMs and AI. Turn off all LLMs and life will go on. Turn off all AI and you lose everything from automated supply chain management to room ACs.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
AI is such a broad term is to essentially be meaningless. My thermostat does not use AI it uses a very simple algorithm.
We have a OCR system at work that runs on a Windows XP computer, people used to call that AI until about 10 years ago.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 6 hours ago
LLMs are just a more complicated algorithm though. AI would be a pretty useful term so long as people are sure to make that distinction and only use AI to refer to a truly complex algorithm. Calling a thermostat algorithm on an A/C “AI” is definitely a meaningless use of the term
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
it uses a very simple algorithm.
That is AI too. If a machine can make a decision based on some input, it is AI. A (functional) if statement in a programme makes it AI.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Jup, it’s as if everyone magically forgot about pre-deep-learning AIs the moment Microsoft and OpenAI appropriated the word AI to mean LLM++.
Turn off ALL AI and you’ll have windmills and power plants go rogue, ships will loose navigation and stabilization, planes falling down from the skies, and most important: the NPCs in your video games will only be able to react with the most simple interactions - terrible, truly!
Bumrocky@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Here’s the funny thing … they never worked to begin with!
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
I cannot stress enough how correct this is. It feels like it’d be similar to early Covid lockdown. People with real jobs that contribute to things are still working while everyone else with the cushy meaningless jobs are sent home to do nothing where they complain and make things harder for the people actually doing things.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I literally quit my job to join them because I couldn’t take it anymore and was met with an insane amount of harassment. Apparently I had be lucky to be considered essential.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s a good comparison, because it illustrates very well why LLMs are so (seemingly) successful. If this useful technology were used primarily by the people who actually worked during COVID, there wouldn’t be a problem, because these people are very good at assessing what’s possible and what isn’t - since they actually understand their work. The problem - and the absurd hype - arises simply because LLMs reinforce the completely absurd ideas of incompetent people - and these are the ones who had nothing to do during the pandemic, since they do nothing but schedule pointless meetings and waste the time of those who are actually doing something meaningful.
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Hint: they don’t
joyjoy@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Let’s do it anyway
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not sure who needs to hear this but… the average person isn’t using AI for anything important, nor likely anything that really involves much thinking. Heck they aren’t even choosing to use it, they are just doing a google search. Some of us use it for work. But for that case, I refer back to my first sentence.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Hey Siri, when is the AI turning ba-GOD DAMMIT
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Legitimately my problem when the internet stops working. My first instinct is to go on the internet and search for what the blinking light means.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I set up an ollama bot for exactly this scenario 😂
thoralf@discuss.familie-will.at 9 hours ago
This implies that the brains worked before. Looking at the world, this is quite a bold assumption, I would say …
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
We should turn off AI for a week to see if people notice.
It is completely useless for the vast majority of users. By vast, I mean almost everyone.
Mucki@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Is there even any AI anywhere? I 've never seen any. No company has any AI. Am I missing something? I know only LLM, ANN, DL, and so on…
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m so sick of the propagandized term. Its not ai.
RT69@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
ReCursing@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
But then what would y’all complain about?
FishFace@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Oh god, the brainrot’s got to you, too! You don’t even remember what people complained about 3 years ago!
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Politics, same as we do now, everyone complained about politics.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Politics, bigotry, transphobes, homophoves and right extremism on the rise. Those sorts of things.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 6 hours ago
Fuckin homophoves, man
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Centralized social media!
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I hope the withdrawal symptoms are gonna be on par with alcohol withdrawal.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
When do you think we will see people doing Lent but with AI instead of food.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Grok, please turn off all ai.
This is how you kickstart Skynet
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Have they for the past couple of decades?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Until the crutch became available.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 42 minutes ago
You are assuming they worked to begin with.
AI has been an amazing tool for those with no ability to think, think slightly.
Like a peg leg helps a amutee walk.