I’ve never really been anti-AI, but I do believe that the current situation we find ourselves in, is desperately in need of some guard rails. In so many ways, including the construction of the data centers. I’m in an industry where I know it’s nothing new. I have been inside of them, worked in them, built them. They have been here for more than a minute. But the AI version is more impactful to resources so it is something new in that sense. I have dabbled in a few of the apps. I even paid for ChatGPT for a month. Never really did much but just kind of messed around with it. I like to play video games. You get stuck sometimes or you wonder where something is or whatever. The Internet is great for that but now, AI is built into the search engine. And so I find myself having had dozens of conversations with Gemini, that started out about the games I’m playing and have gotten into some very deep and at times esoteric topics. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Part of me either wants to, or thinks I’m supposed to feel bad about it. Nothing’s black-and-white, most things aren’t truly symmetrical. There’s asymmetry here, between danger/good. I think the good sides potential far out weighs the negatives potential. But I can see the darkness too. It was slow, gradual, but it hooked me in. I find it very useful. I still have many concerns about its affect and impact on our society and government long-term, but there are way too many things to be potentially excited about in my opinion and it’s absolutely not going anywhere. People need to get over that. I’m just really starting to scratch the surface of awareness. I’ve sort of cornered it. But I’m aware recently of some of the advancements in medical technology that have already occurred and the ones that are on the horizon. Speaking particularly of the way AI wrapped up a 50 year long attempt to predict the shapes produced by protein folding. And as a 60-year-old man, how can I not be interested in the work being done in aging. I mean it’s mind blowing. It’s hard not to be excited about that. And plus, it’s a pretty great gaming counselor, not perfect. But dynamic, responsive and immediate. I can’t imagine digging through lines of text on some website searching for an obscure answer that I can get conversationally and immediately. So I’m in. submitted by /u/rnk6670
Originally posted by u/rnk6670 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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