Sick of ai being pushed down our collective throats with no choice in the matter.

I agree.
I despair of people outsourcing their thinking.

I'd love to see you being dramatic then.

My job is always listed as one of the first to go because of AI (actually LLMs, which is not the same). It's not true. The companies using LLMs instead of humans are now at a disadvantage and have started hiring humans again.

AI is a product of the IT industry. Search 'IT failures'. That industry is a crock of shit, and will fuck up massively.

Well you couldn’t use this site without AI.

In what way?

Without wishing to be overly dramatic, I see the growing dominance of AI as the beginning of the end of life as we know it.

Well you couldn’t use this site without AI.
I don’t like the amount of ads I see which are AI generated (interiors, models etc). I don’t know anyone who uses it as a ‘friend’. I do worry how many entry level jobs are now done by AI but I’m sure the same has been said with any new invention and technology- I used to work in publishing and a whole sector (typesetting) was pretty much wiped out overnight when computers and desktop publishing came in.
Also my DD is at uni and using AI to write /organise essays is an issue as AI doesn’t think or reason and
can just be plain inaccurate.
But it is also hugely beneficial. I would (literally) be lost without my satnav. I have a chronic illness and there are developing tools to help. I think the medical field has benefited greatly from AI.

What do we do with the people that don't have those attributes?

We already have neighbourhoods/ small towns dominated by the impact of de-industrialisation since the 1980s where skills and opportunities didn't align and have left zones of poverty where there's no aspiration, and it's very difficult to leave that cycle. And opportunities for adult re-training are a hell of a lot worse than they were then.

This is Luddism

Its happened, we can’t go back only foward. Accepting and adapting is the only way. It can’t be uninvented.

Ah but which company designed the parking apps?

The parking apps I use don’t have my fingerprints or health issues 😂

They will know your name age address, health issues, fingerprints if you have a police record, photo id, passport details,ni number, dna if you’ve had that researched, etc so when they or someone controlling them decide to reduce the population they can programme a drone to find you and turn you into a puff of smoke - unless the leaders want you as a food grower, careworker or miner . Then you’ll be spared for a life of drudgery.

I mean this just sounds tin foil hatty…

See I love the parking apps. I never carry cash about and it’s so much more convenient. Not sure what top secret data I am sharing with them, apart from my name and email address.

I don’t think you should be forced to use them. But that is capitalism, not specifically AI. Private companies will do what is convenient to them to make the most money. Apps are more secure in the sense of not being robbed like parking machines used to be.

There's always resistance to every new technology - I mean, there were complaints that this newfangled printing thing was going to wreck our memories as well as spreading seditious ideas. I don't like AI either and have so far not (knowingly) had anything to do with it, but I'm thinking I'm really going to have to make an effort to at least understand it. Otherwise I'll be getting "old" before I'm 50. My idea of being old is getting to that point where you just decide you can't cope with any new stuff (probably disguising it with a lot of "it's all stupid, unnecessary and probably dangerous anyway") and put up the mental walls and before you know it you're living in a world you don't understand and can't function normally in. Like my grandma with the internet, or the man I encountered in a car park today who couldn't or wouldn't download a parking app and was getting in a rage about his "right" to park without it (he had a smartphone, offered to show him, wasn't having it). It may have its downsides like anything else, but if we don't get on board we'll be left behind. With young people rolling their eyes, like I do at old people who can't use a smartphone.

AI is a tool and like all tools, from printing to the internet, can be used for good or for ill.

I agree that the forms of AI with which most of us will come into casual contact are large language models. But LLMs are just one category of AI. Generative AI is another kind of AI which is becoming increasingly widespread. A more recent development is the use of multi-agent systems (MAS) and compound AI systems for complex problem solving or task completion.

Already, some jobs are being replaced by AI (as jobs in the past have been replaced by new technology) and other jobs, people need to use AI in order to compete with others in their field who use AI.

I guess that, just like every other thing that people have invented, some of the impacts of AI will be fantastic and others will be completely shit.

Alright, I’m full, cars carrying terf. I just couldn’t think of the terminology. Sexed cancer?

I love it personally. Has really improved my life.

I worry how well live in the future. AI has the potential to takeover a lot of jobs including well paid ones. Once we give in there will be a time when the jobless outnumber the employed. Then who will pay for the jobless to have food, a roof over their heads etc.

I’m just glad I’ll be dead by the time a company like Skynet rules the world.

AI even wants to help me write comments and check my grammar on facebook. Like I'm an idiot that can't even write a sentence. Well, maybe in a few years we WILL all be idiots.

And currently most people can spot AI writing, pictures of videos. But it won't be long before they are indistinguishable, which is going to be very difficult for identifying fraud. Here's just one example from this morning's news. Not to mention deepfake porn etc.

The free AI that you get with your computer or smartphone is generally crap and tends to get things wrong, but it will be widely used because it enables people who write intermediate-level English and have it as their second or third language to pretend that they are fluent.

There are a lot of such people in the developing world, very eager for outsourced jobs from the West. At present, the free AI has certain tells in its writing style that can be easily identified with practice but those will be improved upon because as someone said upthread, AI is essentially a large language model.

I don't think it will take over from humans. I think it will enable less skilled and educated humans to perform jobs from which they were traditionally excluded and if you live in a Western country, that should be enough to worry you.