To wish AI would F-off

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I am sure there is potential for amazing advances but right now they are not filtering down into ordinary people’s lives bar Chat GPT being quite helpful to some extent.

Instead the only impact seems to be real anxiety for people who feel they have only got a year or two left before their job goes and then won’t be able to work again.

There also doesn’t seem to be any consideration of this by a supposed Labour gov, regulation or protection for workers or plan to help people build the right skills.
Honestly I’d rather it went back into the can!

You sound like the people who said the internet would never take off.
In my profession it's proving really useful in getting qualified professionals back out from behind desks and doing what they're best at.

Yes im probably being a bit grumpy!
it will take off but I think there is a lot of anxiety that won’t happen in a way that’s beneficial to most workers and noone in gov seems to be acknowledging that fact.

I don’t think the pros outweigh the cons, and some of the cons are quite hefty.

I agree, I have lost my job and have not been out of work for 24 years!

Which profession is that? I only meet experienced creatives who are having to retrain as there is no work.

ChatGPT is useful but still limited. Its advice about my FPL this week was utter nonsense.
It will progress and it will replace some jobs.
But progress always has its pros and cons. It’s always been the case - out of town shopping centre versus the high street, the rise of call centres or even overseas travel taking off in the 70’s. There will always be people who are impacted or don’t like it, and those who do or use it anyway. Whinge away, but you won’t stop it.

Nope love it - it’s saved me hours and hours in my profession.
even reporting to colleagues is so much more efficient in my team I turn chat GPT microphone on in the car “ talk” to my colleague for handover and by the time I get to work my handover report for the week is done- it used to take me close to an hour typing now done in 10 minutes.

It will be a pivot the same way internet / out sourcing to other countries was. So it’s about ways to make you and your role AI proof or retraining so it is AI proof.