Weren’t there a couple of stories in the '70s and '80s about people climbing the corporate ladder by following the advice from a Magic 8 Ball? And look how all that turned out!
The magic 7 ball strategy had a survivorship basis. Only competent people succeeded in using it
I think those people using magic 8, succeeded by not using their emotions to make career decisions, but coolly and rationally handled what was in front of them randomly .
As a consequence they played less power games while being very aggressive. Which is a winning strategy sometimes .
Llm could not replicate it, too much instructions
Be precise. Based on My interactions with Lemmy, will I find this true or false. Write My opinion in 3 sentences.
You feel compelled to write a 12 page missive on why cars are awful, Zohran Mamdami is the true messiah, and AI is worse than the bubonic plague.
Certainly! You believe that this is very not good. You think that this will lead to the end of human civilisation. You would rather kill whomever is responsible than keep having to watch the steady decline. As a solution you should listen to more Kesha.
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I work in a very technical field and I used to be worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep up into my 40s and 50s but seeing how genZ deals with technology makes me much less concerned. I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.
100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot
can confirm 3 younger (late teens/early twenties) BIL with dog shit for brains
To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don’t have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.
I’m just glad my dad showed me how the launch games in the dos prompt
I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.
Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.
It’s like there’s a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.
Everyone else is broken.
I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.
Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.
Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.
I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.
The nickname is new, the behaviour isn’t.
At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.
My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she’s hitting the speed dial for my partner’s phone. At this point she’s kind of in a mindset of “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas”. If she can’t get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.
Luckily, she hasn’t been inundated with AI chat bots yet.
I’m certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun… Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn’t get.
She’s a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can’t get an instant response from someone on what to do. There’s plenty of people that do not.
I’m almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)… They don’t try to fix their computer because that’s not their job. Even if they know how, they won’t. That’s not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.
Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don’t care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that “black and white”.
“Someone said ‘second hand thinker’ and I still think about that daily,” another user added.
That’s solid but not specific enough. I know a lot of people let YouTube and TikTok do their thinking these days.
Still better than AI tbh, depending on your source.
Joe Rogan: No thanks. Hank Green or ElectroBOOM: Yes please.
I argue its worse, in the end whatever is being regurgitated from what they see on youtube ends with the video duration, but these people are to believe that these things think - hell they think the AI is smarter than themselves and defer all judgement. I wish it remained an internet phenomena but I’ve met too many true believers already 😑
/anecdote
Guy in one of my code classes, would not just fucking tell me if he wrote his code, or the AI did. I knew the AI did, because you don’t come asking why it’s not working when he didn’t declare any variables, big red error “variable not declared”. It was the end of that semester, I was there with him every single period. The audacity to have me debug the shitbot’s chicken scratch, claim its super helpful, but also cover its dumb ass by being an even bigger dumbass and fail probably the easiest javascript course you could’ve asked for. I am honestly still in awe.
Boy am I glad I didn’t go to school (and don’t have to teach) during AI.
Back in my day you knew people were copy and pasting from stack overflow because Python would complain about mixed indentation and there’d be comments in only one function.
I do feel for the TAs having to read our printed assignment and hand written code on tests.
Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.
“Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?”
Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman’s villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.
15 years ago would have been
People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask Google Before They Do Anything
There is no news in this news.
I feel Google is a different story to AI though. Google just found the information for you to read, AI actually tells you.
“Every critique of tech I religiously like is FUD!” - the techbro’s guide to handling criticism
ok Boomer
I use Mistral Ai instead because I don’t touch and US products or services. The most common thing I ask is: check and tidy up these notes add formatting for readability, present as a markdown code block, add some nerd fonts.
those frickin clankers should just unplug themselves
Hell, it’s getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it’s usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it’s usually best to ignore it and read the answer it’s trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it’s right.
Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I’ve been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.
at least ddg respects the “never show me this” toggle.
You can turn off ai results
Set this as an alternative search engine
Note the ‘%25s’ is supposed to be just ‘%s’. Dunno’ why lemmy adds 25 in there… URL encoding maybe?
Correct, %25 is the escape for a percent sign
We’re cooked.
I AM AN AI SLOP WHORE. I use chatgpt every goddamn DAY. You are all Luddites to me, who scoff at the motor vehicle while your horse stubbornly refuses your commute today. So many of you write “I used it once in 2022 and it was bad so now I Bing everything and spend hours of my precious life wading through the godforsaken modern internet”. Not me, I send my AI slave into the fray while enjoying a fine Moscato, from the throne I built (with help from chatGPT on material selection and how to do joinery). If AI is “no good”, you are not using it correctly.
Is this a copypasta? It should be a copypasta.
I AM AN AI SLOP WHORE. I use chatgpt every goddamn DAY. You are all Luddites to me, who scoff at the motor vehicle while your horse stubbornly refuses your commute today. So many of you write “I used it once in 2022 and it was bad so now I Bing everything and spend hours of my precious life wading through the godforsaken modern internet”. Not me, I send my AI slave into the fray while enjoying a fine Moscato, from the throne I built (with help from chatGPT on material selection and how to do joinery). If AI is “no good”, you are not using it correctly.
I tried to use it to write software to rotate my screen in a way that would please me and if I wasn’t an experienced sysadmin the code it produced would have destroyed the computer’s battery in a year or so.
That was this year.
Everything it makes is bad, the prose is awful, the orthography bland, the code mediocre. Any factual query I have made has had at least one critical error a non expert would miss. They are machines for giving idiots false confidence, atrophying your own skills, and producing the sort of aggressively mediocre writing one finds on reddit.
I think it is fucking hilarious to be proud about making yourself dependent on an industry that literally 450 billion dollars in the hole and 2 companies. I am sure that’ll work out well for you.
The best use for it is as a sounding board to work through problems. That’s it.
AI loves to hallucinate environment variables
Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
Hey?! Why Come You Don’t Have A Tattoo?
Busy! 'batin
I used to do this a lot with google, but now that it’s barely functioning at giving me correct results… Yeah I use chatgpt a lot. I’d love it if there was a functioning search engine instead, but there isn’t
I’m genuinely curious, what do you find chatbots useful for?
Honestly I literally use it as a google replacement. Idk what happened with google but I just can’t get anything useful out of it at all, and so I’ll just ask ChatGPT to search online for stuff if google proves useless.
The only other use I like for it is learning new languages, as a developer it can help a lot, as long as it doesn’t make shit up, which it does fairly regularly tbh
I use other browsers like duck duck go, ai feeds me missinfo quite often when I check on what it’s saying
Use duck.ai instead of chatgpt. Not as good. But it is private.
I will back up that recommendation with Lumo, a privacy focused AI from the makers of Proton Mail.
The only way I use chatgpt now is A: on the tor browser and, B: with a darknet email. however the free and more anonymous stuff (such as Duck.ai) is not THAT far behind. They use older models, but as times passes they will get better.
I’ve found to be duck.ai ok. The reasoning model is sometimes ok for basic code and math
thank, I’ll try it instead :)
You could use Perplexity. It is both: A search engine combined with a LLM.
That’s how I use chatgpt tbh, “search online for…” and I get the results this way
How soon till cult mechanicus is recognized for religious tax breaks?
Praise to the Machine God.
