with the rapid pace of change, it’s tough to stay ahead. are you diving into learning new skills, embracing automation, or finding it overwhelming?
curious how others are adapting to this new world.
with the rapid pace of change, it’s tough to stay ahead. are you diving into learning new skills, embracing automation, or finding it overwhelming?
curious how others are adapting to this new world.
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I’m not. I learn new things as my 3 year old does them on my phone and then diseminate it to my coworkers. (If you double tap the power button on androids, it goes straight to the camera, btw)
I’ll worry about it when AI starts to affect my job. So far, I’ve seen no significant impacts…. And I can retire in about 2 years so if I’ve seen no impact yet, I gotta believe I can make it to the finish line.
I’m making sure I stay the course. Today I hand split a half cord of firewood. Cuddling up with my dog in the grass. Had a good piece of salmon for dinner. I’ll use ai here and there, it’s not gonna control my life. I think that we just all feel like we have to take part in everything all at once all the time. That’s not healthy or sustainable as a human. Learn a little bit here and there. Life’s to short to worry about it.
I have younger colleagues who explain things to me, slowly and repeatedly.
Despite working in telecom, my job is actually pretty low-tech. It pays better than jobs I had previously that would easily be replaced by AI or a robot. I even experimented with using AI to write quick outlines for clients on processes related to their disability services at my old job, always fact-checking and putting my own spin on it of course, but the non-face-to-face parts of my job could be done about 90% of the time in mere seconds with AI if it were fed the correct body of information.
I’m always trying to pick up new skills, regardless of what’s upcoming, both because I like to keep my brain working, I find intellectual laziness distasteful, and it’s fun to be the renaissance man slash Swiss Army knife of people.
I’ve done voice work, radio production, coding instruction, marketing, lots of instructing and mentoring of people ages 5-65, public speaking, off-the-cuff public speaking, standup, social coaching, IT, sales, disability services, I can make friends anywhere I go, I’m largely considered a magnetic person by friends and strangers alike, I’m an excellent cook and bartender, recipes I’ve created have ended up on bar menus curated by one of the most prolific mixologists in my region (you just mention the guy’s name and any bartender worth their salt knows who he is around these parts), I’ve built new programs for non-profits from the ground up with almost no budget and made them sustainable, worthwhile, and improved the reputation of those involved.
Tech and AI doesn’t scare me (for now, let’s be fair, we’ve all seen Terminator), but being bored terrifies me. As a consequence of that, my particularly weird mix of skills, parlor tricks, attitude, and magnetic qualities keep me employed whatever I decide I want to do.
“Everything’s computer”
It’s all bullshit… just turn off your smart phone, go out into nature.. and ignore all the hype. I’m a tech CTO and I’m so tired of tech hype… there’s an entire world outside of AI. AI is just making people dumber.
I love tech.
However it didn’t reach the standards which I would be willing to pay money for.
New iPhone intelligence is a total flop. Compared with existing chatbots Siri is just way behind.
Love new voice in ChatGPT but won’t pay 200 per month to have more than 1 hour.
And the previous version is not good enough.
Want to buy Apple Watch but battery last only a day. Garmin watches doesn’t have good integration in apple ecosystem.
Want to upgrade my gaming rig but Nvidia card costs more than a car.
Sex robots costs over 5k and can’t do much.
AI girlfriends not worth the money because u use them just to generate porn, which u can get for free.
Would love to automate my home. But it’s rented flat.
Would buy some autonomous car but u still need a driving license and mine expired 15 years ago.
Have subscription to Midjouney but only used once to generate some logo for my work.
Generated pickup lines for Tinder are too cheesy or too safe. I can come with better ones.
So even tech is moving relatively fast it’s still a decade or more to actually be useful and affordable.
It’s not that difficult, should be child’s play for any millennial or younger.
I’ve been in tech all of my working life. I was doing machine learning research and development from the early 90s until now. Very recently retired, I just ignore all of the annoying marketing driven froth I sometimes come across. LinkedIn is particularly bad for this.
I don’t. Most the new stuff are full of bugs anyway. I don’t keep up unless it is required of me.
Sounds like something a bot would ask to see how to talk more better🧐
Building a cabin in the middle of nowhere
Oh look it’s year 2000 again.
(It’s all bullshit. Act accordingly.)
Did you really need to post this exact question in 5 subreddits in a row?
Oh I’m loving it. I use the AI assistant on my phone to respond to spam callers . They usually hang up when they hear the AI and if they engage I have preset responses I made for them. My favorite response is- “the firetruck goes weewoo weewoo weewoo”
By working in tech and AI lol
As others have said, I’ll worry about it when my job starts to be affected.
As a prospective parent, though, I do often wonder what career prospects will be available for the new generation, let alone me!
It’s all too much for me. I enjoy getting outside in nature as much as possible.
It’s true what they say. It’s the simple things in life that make you happy.
I run a consulting business for tech startups.
I’m hired to create launch campaigns. Most of my clients are AI startups.
It’s insane. I’m just about on the wave, but you have to paddle hard to keep up.
That said, there are a LOT of bullshit, low-quality apps coming to market because the bar for technical skills has been lowered so much.
Eg. I’ve had enquiries from horrible apps that create fake dating profile pictures in private jets. Nonsense that I have never had to brush away before.
But I also work with platforms that are likely to change the way that we perform knowledge work forever.
We’re clearly on the upper section of a hype cycle.
A lot of bullshit apps will die off over the next year or two.
Hopefully, most people will have a more realistic sense of AI’s ability to improve our lives soon.
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Never stopped learning new skills. And tbh it’s exhausting.
ChatGPT is my new google
I don’t really keep up with any of it. I have a job that can’t be replace by a robot or AI, at least not in my lifetime, so I don’t really need to keep up with the latest everything. And not everything needs to be smart or AI. Even before this whole AI craze, I went out of my way to buy items and appliances that were basic and didn’t have WiFi or apps or anything like that.
Keeping up? We freaking invented it. And we did it with old school trouble shooting before you could google it. I work with young folk who have no clue how anything works and they are the ones overwhelmed.
Tech is OK, generally, but AI is terrifying. I don’t understand how anyone looks at AI and doesn’t get creeped out.
Same as every other tech that has come out since the 90’s embrace it and learn how to use it for your needs
Meh, AI sucks and as hard as they’re trying to push it I’m just going to be that old person who doesn’t keep up with tech.
I am implementing a bunch of AI shit at work, it’s alright, useful for our use case. We’re not doing ot as a gimmick, it’s genuinely a solution to a business problem we have.
I’ve been using LLMs for a while, I use them to generate code, to review code, to clarify and reframe my own ideas, to explain things, as a guide when engaging with new things, to generate and adjust recipes, to get information about stuff that’s not easy to google, troubleshooting, translation, text correction, product comparison, and probably more.
I find LLMs very useful, I also find them very untrustworthy. Always verify the sources.
Most of my life has involved some form of adapting to new technology, so “keeping up” is just kinda status quo. I s’pose the trick now is deciphering what’s actually useful from what’s just trying to take your money, and the ratio of the latter to the former is only increasing.
I’m doing my best to lean into all of it. I’ve been using ChatGPT for personal and professional work and its been a wonder for my work-life-balance.
I try and go to conferences for AI when I can.
And, I’m trying to get out of Marketing because if I can do what I do so easily with AI, then I’m sure it is only a matter of time before I’m fully replaceable.
By resiting and revolting as much as possible. Most of our exposure to tech is owned by the wrong hands and used for the wrong purposes. AI ads, for example, are an insult to our humanity. There’s a massive industry devoted to the psychology and tech of how to get into your head and manipulate you to buy crap or vote a certain way. Democracy was already under serious threat from these relatively novel issues before AI. Our defenses are very low because it’s all new delivery, new targeting, and new psychological research. It’s bad for our bodies, brains, and our souls (atheists read: creativity).
The antidotes are many and much of it can be found in lost wisdom which didn’t make it through the process of generational transfer amidst the whirlwind of industrialization to today.
Time in a natural environment instead of human built walls and screens is the first remedy.
I’m 52, thankfully my father was a need and I’ve basically had tech in my lifebsince the late 70s.
I worked in IT for 20+ years and most tech totally pisses me off coz most of it is basically like a model t ford compared to where it could be.
But ai, well that’s gone from being cute to being actually useful for someone like me with pretty deep tech skills and a fair bit of programming experience.
I can do thing’s in hours that would’ve taken weeks previously and that’s only going to get better.
I feel bad for anyone who isn’t tech savvy or able to reskill, they’re basically fuxked.
Bill Gates said 10yrs till a 2 day work week for a lot of people and I believe him.
I am technology
Use chat gpt with screen shots and pictures to explain it. Heck its good enough to do maintenance on anything in your home if you have the tools.
you dont. you use what you want, and discard the rest.
It makes me feel nostalgic for the late 90s internet. There were tons of low quality businesses and junk dot com companies. Few people understood how fast it would evolve and that the internet of 2005 would be vastly different than 1998.
I fully expect an AI industry crash, and for people to claim that it is over, only to see the real progress after the fact.
I’m ~60.
TBH, idgaf much. But I do keep up with the tech as much as it affects what I do at my job; so the whole AI thing, I probably just scratch the surface using it for colorful language. For me, it’s good for certain tasks. It’s good at writing reviews for personnel, good at coming up with “colorful” language to describe things in ways I wouldn’t have, but it’s not very good at actually understanding what those words may or may not mean.
I work in IP law. AI still cannot understand what the meaning of “plain and ordinary meaning” is. It’s an important distinction in the world of patents. A claim can say one thing but mean something entirely different, depending on how you read it: this is why I make the big bucks.
I have also PhD in engineering. AI is VERY good at dealing with large data sets; much better than I am. It’s also very apparent that AI can reduce things from large data sets that I would or might miss. For example, recombinant chemistry models, models of weather, that sort of thing.
But it definitely has its limitations.
I hope that answers your question some.
Cheers
As someone who works in manufacturing watching white collar people experience the joys automation is super funny.
What makes you think Men Over 30 would be lagging instead of leading? That is a curious perspective. In terms of robotics and AI, the verdict is still out, in it’s current form it’s not worth a hoot, per speculation if it well be any good. Currently it’s in it’s infancy and not worthwhile at all. If it evolves and becomes everything people think it will then it will replace so many jobs that it will destroy the economy, if it is speculative smoke and mirrors, fraud and a con job then all these tech companies are busted and that will cause an economic downturn similar to dot com bust. Based on what I’ve seen so far, the latter is true. The robotics and AI bust is coming as soon as people discover that it really isn’t any good, parlor tricks at best.
I’m not. I picked up a new hobby (ice hockey) and spend very little time playing video games or “skilling up” for my career. It’s not that I’m a pessimist, but probably a nihilist. What happens, happens. I’m going to try and get my outside edge control and wrist shot down, in the meantime.
I do not care. It is my wifes problem.
Everyone adopts new tech, but only 10% Read the fricking manpages (rtfm).
We’re the old guy in the club, so go home, take off your shoes and RTFM.
I try to keep up and I’m still way behind.
I changed my specialization. I now do QA for AI agents. Hopefully that’ll carry me a while.
I keep tabs om tech that interests me/seems useful and wait for a stable product to come out that would suit my neeeds. Example: electric vehicles. I am very interested and keenly watching for a better electric truck for camping/hunting. Unfortunately, the tech isn’t there yet that I’d feel comfortable going out into the mountains for multiple days in an electric truck. Not to mention charging infrastructure is still few and far between where I live.
AI? I am meh about it. It doesn’t help me do my job, and I’m not a fan of how much it’s being pushed. I turned off my phone’s AI assist, I just don’t want/need it.
I don’t. The vast majority of that stuff is useless crap I don’t need. I learn what I need and will use and IDGAF about the rest.
I just ignore it. If something job pertinent comes along I learn it but otherwise it’s just useless consumerist hype.
right now chatbot AI is the best way to do your job. it’s basically a Google search tool. no ads, and the way you format your question and it answers with sourced links? Google search engine is dead to me.
Doing a lot of reading on the Luddites, really digging their whole vibe.