Live in the past, is mine. I will listen to things over and over because some songs or even podcast episodes, rewind me back to times where I felt comfortable in. I do sometimes poke my head out to see where things are currently in the present, but nothing around really makes me gravitate to anything current-day. But, then I just go back to my hole in living in the past.
People used to tell old people to get over it about them remembering things as they were all of the time. I’m understanding why they do that. Sometimes the present really truly sucks.
Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.
Yeah, this is me too. Although, to be fair to my younger self, back then a lot of new technologies actually were notable improvements over the previous tech, and older people were missing out by not trying them. I’m talking about going from cassette tapes to CDs, things like that.
Nowadays the new thing really is just worse than the old thing. E.g. going from a desktop environment to “the metaverse.” Those of us who didn’t embrace the metaverse were not just sticking to our old cassette tapes; the metaverse really was stupid as hell.
The meta verse has 500 users, total, worldwide. Out of 8 billion people. It’s not exactly a popular new tech.
AI on the other hand, fits the description much better. It is very useful, and people who reject it out of spite are missing out. Sure, it’s being shoved down our throats in literally every product, whether it makes sense or not, I get the sentiment. But rejecting it completely makes you miss it’s useful applications.
What about kids who edit videos on a phone. Laptops exist too you know, and the editing process would be a lot more enjoyable.
GenX and Millenials are the only two generations who are technically literate to know that. Your average GenZ or Alpha or whatever never learned to use a computer so it’s less scary to do it on a phone.
And then there’s also the extra friction. You would need to transfer the video files to the computer before you can even start. If you edit on the phone, all the files are already there, which is nice.
You could wait a few hours for the cloud to finally sync, or you could just go through all the USB-C cables that don’t support reasonable data transfer rates… either way, there are some serious bottlenecks in the process. Once you get past those, it gets better, but I guess all of that is enough to deter many people from trying.
My favorite example: Copilot to read your emails for you and send responses automatically. Get two people with Copilot sending each other emails with neither person actually involved. Efficient!
Maybe this is why I constantly feel like no one is reading my emails at work anymore. I can put multiple points of information into an email and only get a response that acknowledges the first one.
That’s almost unequivocal proof that a human did it. AI will restate each point and provide an answer, no matter how correct or useful. A human will get distracted, or omit or ignore points that they think are obvious or too difficult.
People have been doing that long before LLMs, so i wouldn’t be too sure haha
That sounds to me like human behaviour, an AI would probably respond to each element separately. A lot of people when faced with multiple pieces of information or questions will usually respond to at most half, and often only one thing, in my experience.
Worked in a lot of service desks where I asked multiple troubleshooting related questions, getting a reply to only one of them is really common, the norm even I would say.
I think it’s more “Copilot can steal the contents of your emails to train its LLM.” (and maybe leak it when someone write a suitably crafted prompt.)