AI can already “find” the solution. They’re not listening to it because they’re looking for a magic pill that solves it without needing to change anything. We’re fucked.

Ngl I saw a duck.

This is not an argument against fair use, but against abuses of the fair use system. Everyone should be for reforming the system in such a way that it is not abused in this way, but that does not mean that we cannot implement a similar system for AI abuses.

I would assume those would fall under fair use of some kind, but you’re right that those fair use laws would need some scrutiny before implementing this. I’m still cautiously optimistic about it, but yeah if I was a lawmaker I’d be thinking hard about the potential misuses of it for sure.

Crazy that this wasn’t already the standard years ago.

Because sycophants keep saying it’s going to take these jobs, eventually real scientists/researchers have to come in and show why the sycophants are wrong.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5360220-chatgpt-use-linked-to-cognitive-decline-mit-research/ new research just dropped.

These guys are so full of shit hahahahaha

Again, you’re being reductive. My argument is not that we will stop practising critical thinking altogether, but that we will not need to practise it as often. Less practise always makes you worse at something. I do not need evidence for that as it is obvious.

I don’t see a point to continuing this conversation if you keep reducing my argument to “nobody will think anymore”.

I am glad you use AI for reasons that don’t make you stupid, but I have seen how today’s students are using it instead of using their brains. It’s not good. We teach critical thinking in schools for a reason, because it’s something that does not always come naturally, and these students are getting AI to do the work for them instead of learning how to think.

The people who were used to the oral tradition were right. Memorising things is good for your memory. No, I don’t think people will stop thinking altogether (please don’t be reductive like this lmao), just as people didn’t stop remembering things. But people did get worse at remembering things. Just as people might get worse at applying critical thinking if they continually offload those processes to AI. We know that using tools makes us worse at whatever the tool automates, because without practice you become worse at things. This just hasn’t really been a problem before as the tools generally make those things obselete.

You don’t think it’s possible that offloading thought to AI could make you worse at thinking? Has been the case with technology in the past, such as calculators making us worse at math (in our heads or on paper), but this time the thing you’re losing practice in is… thought. This technology is different because it’s aiming to automate thought itself.

What do the capitalists expect to happen once they automate all the physical jobs and all the desk jobs? Do they just expect us all to die?

They lobby extensively against UBI-type initiatives and god-forbid any actual communist/socialist change be suggested.

Do they want us to die?

My first laptop was an Ubuntu machine with no battery when I was 4. I had no idea what Linux was, I just played the games my uncle had pre-loaded onto it.

It does, it’s completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing’s.

Lots of other search engine options.

Kagi seems good.

I’m currently using duckduckgo and it’s roughly as good as google search at this point. I remember it being considered a joke when it first launched.

God forbid, bing is also an option.

Forgive my ignorance, but what did he do?

History in the making. This is what open source is all about.

I assume they’re talking about tear gas used by police (Trump’s thugs) in protests.

Nah. Non-white people in the crowd are glad they’re one of the good ones 🙏🙏 (they don’t know Trump doesn’t care).

Come on man, you know they didn’t mean it literally 💀