RE: There's No Turning Back
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Critical thinking is incredibly difficult for people who simultaneously want to do what they want when they want how they want all the time but also don't ever want to be wrong about or responsible for anything so it's better to just have someone else's ideas so they can pretend to be cool and hip and trendy or whatever the kids are saying these days and this way if it turns out to be wrong it's not their fault.
And AI is just the latest in the stream of shiny new tech toys that people want to be able to use in everything to solve all of their problems (i remember back when hive was new there were people who were adamant that blockchain should be used for absolutely everything including replacing the entire internet and that is absolutely not practical). It'll settle into something useful eventually, in the meantime we just have to put up with people desperately trying to shoehorn it into places where it will probably never fit/work out for a bit more :)
Agreed! It's just that AI is the latest tech in town that everyone should try or knows about. I mean, it's like Facebook when it was first released or even google. We all hooked on it one way or another. Then it started to change the way we interact and changed us as a society. Give it 10-15 years, maybe less and the landscape of our culture and society would look so different.
I even read there are people who committed suicide due to AI advice. There is many more and we'll be seeing such more frequently or counted as if that's nothing soon.
I have heard something about that and it's both really sad and really unsurprising given that it looks like AI just tends to agree with whatever you're saying or very soft disagree with it to spare your feelings or something (I am going purely by the AI summaries I get on some search engines if I do a more natural language search than I usually do, I haven't spoken to ChatGPT etc yet as far as I'm aware).
Amusingly or coincidentally shortly after reading your post a couple of articles eventually crossed my rss (they were in a "web review" thing that keeps coming up from one of my feeds rather than being directly in it themselves, one about why this particular company chooses not to use AI and one about how apparently newer AI models are coding worse), I get a lot more cautionary tales and moderate enthusiasm with the fields I'm interested in XD