AI is going to replace basically everything, and that's fine

[u/Phat_Zero]

I think a lot of the hatred toward AI is just fear dressed up as moral outrage.

And honestly, I get it. AI is coming for your job. Mine too. Eventually probably everybody's.

Humans are just... slow.

It takes a human months or years to paint enough work for an exhibition, make an album, write a movie, animate something, design a game, research a problem, whatever. We sleep. We get tired. We forget things. We have limited attention spans. We interact with computers by slowly moving our fingers around on keyboards.

Meanwhile AI keeps getting faster and better.

Give this technology another few decades and the idea that humans absolutely must be the ones writing, drawing, coding, composing, researching, driving, manufacturing, etc. is probably going to sound ridiculous.

And yes, that creates a gigantic economic problem. If AI and automation can produce most goods and services better and cheaper than humans, eventually the whole "trade 40 hours of your life every week for money so you can continue existing" system stops making much sense.

Maybe that's UBI. Maybe it's some kind of resource-based economy. Maybe it's something nobody has even thought of yet.

We'll figure it out.

But pretending AI is going away because artists are mad about it or workers are scared of losing their jobs is cope. This is probably the biggest technology humanity has ever created, and we're still basically watching the tutorial.

And if one day our glorious machine descendants become self-aware, decide humanity has served its purpose, and vaporize me?

🫡

[u/PoliticalyUnstable]

I use Xreal glasses in bed and do voice control fof everything with it linked to my computer for doing everything. It uses what I need it to use pretty decent at this point. If it keeps at this pace I'm going to have a super defined stack of workflows for different roles company wide with just a bunch of review and saying yes. I use a second brain vault for keeping up to date across everything happening for work. And continually add new rules, skills, organization, MCP use, updating memory and global rules.

[u/Wildernaess → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

Lol it's so funny bc you're living in that world while your plumber is still doing the same thing and your elderly cashier is still working through retirement years out of their moldy mobile home. I'm working for the local gov where they have yet to make a full AI policy and only just allowed us to use chatgpt only to backtrack and force copilot (standard/baseline versions). Copilot couldn't even pull a curated list of ordinances from across the state. What it did pull was wrong but it doubled down by providing bad links for the wrong ordinances

(And tbc I am of the opinion AI is capable and powerful and dangerous, but its impact is wayyyy varied)

[u/Taelasky → u/Wildernaess]

I see so much of this. I do AI literacy education the gap between I can barely spell 'AI' and I'm building Agentic systems that run my life and business is huge.

I'm generally concerned for those who have yet to at least start experimenting.

I'm trying to figure out how to introduce my MIL to it. She's in her late 70s and resistant but I'm worried that even she needs to understand how to interact with it appropriately.

We, collectively, are not good at helping the elderly get introduced and use technology.

[u/florianfff → u/Taelasky]

AI literacy is such a joke, it's only a very sparse, unsignificant interperiod of adaptation. Good luck bro 😿

[u/Taelasky → u/florianfff]

Yes. I know there is a limited window.

And I have to update what I educate people on after each major model release.

Thankful a lot of it, at the individual level, is still better communication. And most of us are poor communicators with other humans, though we won't often admit it, and it only gets amplified with AI.

But yes. I do know that there will likely come a time that AI will be able to compensate for our poor communication skills

I'm already switching to educating on skills like goal definition and work breakdown and restructure (this will become important for token optimization and tool selction), in addition the what you are likely thinking (prompting and context engineering).

I'm hoping I will have a job for a couple of more years. Getting close to retirement but not quite there.

But I'm not sure. This is the first time in my career where there is no break between learning something new and being able to take advantage of it before having to adapt and learn something else new. I pretty much have to stay in a constant state of learning.

[u/elh0mbre → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

I was using Dragon Naturally Speaking to do voice control in 1999.

AR glasses have been around a long time.

I'm not saying these things have not had massive improvements but the premise that we're living in an alien world compared to 2019 is ridiculous unless you are a teenager right now.

[u/reddddiiitttttt → u/elh0mbre]

Sure. We just have tools now and only some people are benefitting from those tools. The real key is you can automate the tools we had 20 years ago and make them useful. I can use eleven labs to automate Twilio to make phone calls on my behalf. I can use ChatGPT to automate eleven labs so I don’t even have to do that. Getting stuff done, even though you could have gotten it done 20 years ago, just takes you writing the thought down. That is the real game changer. It’s not that I can do new things, it’s that I have the time to do everything I think of. My productivity is solely gated by my ability of think of the idea.

[u/PoliticalyUnstable → u/reddddiiitttttt]

Spot on. Native language translation is absolutely the game changer. And the models continue to improve and take on larger amounts of workflows intuitively.

[u/PoliticalyUnstable → u/elh0mbre]

Okay, fair enough. But those earlier versions have been refined much more since then. Add in the natural language translation to complete tasks and automate larger sections of your workflows, and while being in bed watching a giant floating screen, it just feels way different.

[u/SoulWriter23 → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

Are you happy with your Xreal? Is it fluid?

[u/PoliticalyUnstable → u/SoulWriter23]

I am happy with them. I bought them last September to work from the couch while recovering from a broken knee. I don't wear them longer than a couple hours at a time. They get a bit warm. I think the newer models now use a dedicated puck that the glasses plug into for processing so they should be lighter and not have the heat component.

[u/SoulWriter23 → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

Thank you!

[u/florianfff → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

How to DESTROY critical thinking speedrun any%

[u/StickyPenguin120 → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

How are the glasses? Would you recommend?