Every time I see posts like this I remember a frequent argument I had in the early 2000’s.
Every time I talked with photography students (I worked at an art school) or a general photography enthusiast, I got the same smug predictions about digital photography. The resolution sucked, the color sucked, the artist doesn’t have enough control, etc. They all assured me that digital photography might be nice for casual vacation photos and maybe a few specialty applications but no way, no how, not even when hell freezes over would any serious photographer ever consider digital.
At the time I would think back to my annoying grade school discussions with teachers who assured me that (dot matrix) printers just sucked. Serious writing was done by hand and if you didn’t know cursive you might as well be illiterate.
For some reasons people keep forgetting that technology marches on. The dumb glitches that are so easy to make fun of now, will get addressed. There are billions of dollars pouring into AI development. Every major company and country is developing them. The pay rates for AI developer jobs attract huge amounts of people to solve those problems.
And up to now we have zero indication that the current approach isn’t a dead end. Bill Gates, for instance, thinks that GPT-4 is a development plateau: heise.de/-9337989
It’s possible that the current $100 billion market size of AI and all the AI job openings are completely misplaced but that’s indication that a lot of people have pretty high expectations that AI will continue to grow.
Ah, yes, famous expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Bill Gates. I’m personally curious what Taylor Swift thinks about Chat GPT 5, myself. That girl’s got a lot of money, which means she must be smart and has smart opinions on topics like generative AI and the efficacy of currently undeveloped LLMs.
Certainly, but none of those technologies completely replaced things. The existing way of doing things became hobbies and remain the preference over the technology which disrupted the field.
Not to mention, technologies will sometimes flop, only to resurface later in a completely different package. The PDA was maybe popular for a year? But now we all have smartphones which effectively capture that concept. The Wii U failed, but the Switch has been wildly popular.
It’s probably premature to say that AI will completely fail, but also that AI will completely replace everything. I just used a Polaroid camera this past weekend at a wedding, and it was enjoyable in a way digital cameras or phones wouldn’t have been. I still write things out at work, particularly if I’m trying to wrap my head around some math or a difficult concept. Typing it out doesn’t work as well.
I think it is safe to say that there are some things AI will never be able to replace, just like there are some things digital cameras couldn’t replace, nor our phones.
There’s either the “it’ll never work” take or the “it’ll destroy the industry!” take, and both are kinda childish. New technologies are tools, nothing more, nothing less. Learn to use them and they’ll make your life easier. Integrate them if they’re threatening your livelihood. Learn and adapt, it’s how progress has always worked.
I’m guessing this argument has been going on longer than either of us can remember.
There was a long time when guns were considered interesting toys but not something a sane person would take onto the battlefield; especially not without some sort of backup. Hell, the “three musketeers” were more known for their fencing than their firearms skill.
I’m sure back in the day some chucklehead complained that papyrus was cute but anything important had to be carved in stone tablet.
Have they considered eating fiber for that constipation problem? I used to eat a big bowl of oatmeal (not instant) every work morning. Regular as clockwork. Also prune juice and/or strong coffee will help move things along too. Laxatives are fine too, but they wouldn’t be my first go-to to flush the system.
Oh that’s easy. Eat nothing but cheese until the desired outcome is achieved. You, uh, might want to have some stool softener and laxatives in your medicine cabinet for when you’re done with your insane experiment though.
I’ve been in one of McAfee’s houses after he died. A friend texted me one morning asking if I’d like to go to McAfee’s house. He had a friend that recently acquired a prior house of McAfee. Of course, I said yes, and drove 2hours to get there.
Decent sized house, probably 6k square feet. There was definitely money put into this place. In-ground pool, hot-tub, the works.
It was just recently acquired. All the furniture in the house was original, left by McAfee! My friend and I were given permission to search the house as far as we wanted, without destroying anything of course. We searched high and low for flash drives, anything really. Searched the dirt “crawlspace” for a bit, you could stand up in there and it looked like someone had been digging around quite a bit.
The only thing we found was a maybe 6x6inch hole cut out of the drywall behind a dresser, like someone knew were something was and took it out the wall.
We played pool on a pool table that had dried splattered blood on it. Found tombstone still tied to a pallet out back that had something along the lines of “RIP BTC”, it also had a qr code, I think it linked to LTC, I can’t remember and the picture was lost due to me leaving my sd card in a phone and selling said phone…
His room was weird, had a pull down like garage door that looked bullet proof and two big doors with wood 6in thick. Probably 50 cameras all over the property.
Weird tid bit, shortly after the family moved in, they had an influx of people coming by and insisting they owned a piece of furniture that was in the house and they want it back. Some of the people insisted to come in and make sure the furniture isn’t there anymore. They were all declined.
And that’s my story of the random text I got from a friend to party and search McAfee’s house.
KFC in particular uses commercial pressure cookers, or at least they originally did I haven’t worked there since before they were called KFC. Those things are dangerous, and if you didn’t appear to have a decent amount of spatial awareness, I wouldn’t hire you at my store, cause an accident with one of those pressure cookers could end in an explosion.
Things might have changed since the 90s, however I worked at multiple KFCs and the intelligence level of the people they hired to run these things was pretty damn low. In fact, at one store most of the cooks were stoned every single shift. Nobody got seriously hurt.
I mean… Getting stoned is arguably better than my experience with fine dining where almost everyone was either stoned and drunk, or on meth… Except for dishie. That dude had EVERYTHING available. He was kinda like Dopey from The 7 Dwarves. Always had an arm out and a leg up to try new drugs. I will admit that dishie was always a reliable source for LSD and X, so there is that going for the madlad.
Guarantee that’s what this is for. No restaurant manager would bother denying with outright denying an application, yet alone sending a rejection email.
There was some kind of evil book I remember only a page of, which was like ‘bad advice to give children’ or something. ‘If you place a slice of salami in a DVD player, it will show a short educational film about pigs’ or something like that.
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