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"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by gedy »

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I'm old enough to remember when personal and office computers were really hitting mainstream in the late 70s and 80s, the messaging was a lot more friendly and how they will save you time, help you, etc. Even though practically speaking it reduced a lot of manual jobs.

This AI/LLM push from leadership is so damn tone deaf, like "you better do this", "ai layoffs", etc. I feel like they are jumping way too hard and fast into the "post-employee" thinking and deserve every bit of scorn from laymen.

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by convolvatron »

jeffbee wrote: post #3
panny wrote: post #2

Yes, I will be left behind. Left behind with my copyrights, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937 Left behind with my money, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933355 Left behind with my intact data, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 Oh, the horror. I am being left behind.

Don't forget your critical thinking skills, your unique voice you painstaking developed over your entire life, and your dignity.

and your ability to stop screwing around and sit down and actually get into something in depth instead half-assing everything

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by kylecazar »

d_silin wrote: post #15
dudisubekti wrote: post #7

Black-and-white thinking like this is not healthy. You can still do creative thinking while using AI as a powerful tool at your disposal. Some mathematicians like Terence Tao are comfortable doing this, for example.

Most people aren't anywhere close to Terence Tao on intelligence scale. Even most of HN commenters aren't that close to Terence Tao.

I don't think balancing AI use with creativity and thought is a matter of IQ. It comes down to how you use the tool.

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by moron4hire »

FiReaNG3L wrote: post #10

Weird fallacy that if you use a tool you can't use your brain anymore

I think it's pretty obvious that people who offload their thinking to an LLM will eventually get used to not thinking hard about things. Anything you do that you stop doing regularly eventually atrophies. Thinking hard about things and performing on work is as much a skill as it is an innate property of being smart, as evidenced by the many "prodigy" sort of folk who languish in obscurity later in life.

- https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artifi...

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by heliumtera »

Just like every single trend that came before, they said you would be left behind:

If you didn't embrace OOP Test driven development Behavior driven development Events driven development Pants in head driven development SOLID DRY Cloud first Virtualization everything Microsservices Serverless Everything js Everything ts Everything Microsoft

This will never stop.

You either let someone be in the middle of you and what you want to accomplish, or you will be left behind.

Think about the most mediocre person you know. Now remember 50% of people around you is dumber than that

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by embedding-shape »

jeffbee wrote: post #3
panny wrote: post #2

Yes, I will be left behind. Left behind with my copyrights, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937 Left behind with my money, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933355 Left behind with my intact data, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 Oh, the horror. I am being left behind.

Don't forget your critical thinking skills, your unique voice you painstaking developed over your entire life, and your dignity.

I'm no AI-hypeman (nor the opposite, I guess), and I agree that replacing AI for critical thinking and writing will only turn out bad in the long-term.

But "your dignity"? You mean like "I feel shameful over that people saw that my writing was actually AI?" or something else?

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by saadn92 »

dudisubekti wrote: post #7

Black-and-white thinking like this is not healthy. You can still do creative thinking while using AI as a powerful tool at your disposal. Some mathematicians like Terence Tao are comfortable doing this, for example.

People also used to say that Google or calculators will make you dumber. Neither happened. Won't happen with this either.
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