I imagine most people will say 'better'. I can see in lots of posts that people are using it as a tool to help with college work and whatever else. I guess, if I was that age now, I would be doing the same. Also, members talk about chatting with chat boxes in a fairly positive way.
I'm not exactly a technophobe but I'm avoiding it where I possibly can at the moment. Where it has insidiously encroached, I'm personally finding it's making things worse! I suddenly noticed Google was coming up with occassionally wrong answers a few months back and since. I assume that's AI related.
I kind of like it in Amazon where you can ask quick questions about a product but then, it's always going to be limited by what information is actually published about it.
So far though, I've just found it more disturbing than good. These creepy adverts clearly aimed at horny guys with unrealistic AI women offering to be their 'friends' and more I imagine. I just see that as an extention of the unrealistic standards women feel they have to live up to. I'm sure the same goes for men, although I haven't seen similar adverts for AI studs.
Also, fake shit on YouTube and more disturbingly, AI generated voices mimicking famous actors and presenters. That raises masses of moral issues. They can effectively make them say and endorse whatever they like! Copyright just seems forgotten about too.
I think they are legally obliged to disclose when something is AI generated now but, how many people will bother reading the small print? I'd be angry if I was a voice actor. Thankfully, it's glitchy enough at the moment to just about spot that it's fake but, I'm sure that will improve.
I just wonder what it will all do to people's intellect, skills, creativity. If they can get it to write an essay for them, will they bother with critical thinking, spelling, grammar? How much practice will they be getting writing anything? Maybe it isn't important. Maybe we'll just get AI to either do or check the stuff we need to do. Will it get to a point where we don't bother being creative because AI can just generate something? Or, will that make us value handmade things more do you think?
One unseen problem that I didn't even consider is AI's water usage- not what first springs to mind- right? But, the systems need enormous amounts of cooling and they need drinking water for that apparently. I guess because it's virtual, we get the sense that it's clean but I think it's probably hugely environmentally unfriendly!
I'm curious about your experiences though. I'm guessing they will be largely positive- which is fine, of course. I also wonder if it's an age thing. Are many oldies (mid 40's) people like me so keen to embrace all this technology?
I'm not exactly a technophobe but I'm avoiding it where I possibly can at the moment. Where it has insidiously encroached, I'm personally finding it's making things worse! I suddenly noticed Google was coming up with occassionally wrong answers a few months back and since. I assume that's AI related.
I kind of like it in Amazon where you can ask quick questions about a product but then, it's always going to be limited by what information is actually published about it.
So far though, I've just found it more disturbing than good. These creepy adverts clearly aimed at horny guys with unrealistic AI women offering to be their 'friends' and more I imagine. I just see that as an extention of the unrealistic standards women feel they have to live up to. I'm sure the same goes for men, although I haven't seen similar adverts for AI studs.
Also, fake shit on YouTube and more disturbingly, AI generated voices mimicking famous actors and presenters. That raises masses of moral issues. They can effectively make them say and endorse whatever they like! Copyright just seems forgotten about too.
I think they are legally obliged to disclose when something is AI generated now but, how many people will bother reading the small print? I'd be angry if I was a voice actor. Thankfully, it's glitchy enough at the moment to just about spot that it's fake but, I'm sure that will improve.
I just wonder what it will all do to people's intellect, skills, creativity. If they can get it to write an essay for them, will they bother with critical thinking, spelling, grammar? How much practice will they be getting writing anything? Maybe it isn't important. Maybe we'll just get AI to either do or check the stuff we need to do. Will it get to a point where we don't bother being creative because AI can just generate something? Or, will that make us value handmade things more do you think?
One unseen problem that I didn't even consider is AI's water usage- not what first springs to mind- right? But, the systems need enormous amounts of cooling and they need drinking water for that apparently. I guess because it's virtual, we get the sense that it's clean but I think it's probably hugely environmentally unfriendly!
I'm curious about your experiences though. I'm guessing they will be largely positive- which is fine, of course. I also wonder if it's an age thing. Are many oldies (mid 40's) people like me so keen to embrace all this technology?
