"If there’s one thing I’ve noticed, investigating and exploring all of this new AI stuff, it’s that people fundamentally lack imagination.
It seems like people simply cannot step outside of their own perspective in their own world.
I constantly see people on this sub, and all other places online saying things like:
“I just don’t see a use case for it in my industry.”
“I haven’t seen anything that would make me wanna use it.”
“All the things I’ve seen look pretty basic. I’m not concerned.”
Grow up. I’m sorry to be harsh, and I don’t mean to be rude, but I just don’t understand how folks are so completely missing the point.
Yes, the things that we have now are not full AGI or singularity yet.
Yet.
I don’t understand why people can’t grasp the concept.
We’ve gone from horse and buggy to space stations in 100 years.
We’ve gone from no computers, no Internet, to LLM AI in less time.
The difference is a space station can’t teach it self to build better space stations.
What do people not understand about exponential growth?
Look at all of the different products and services that have been built using just the simplest AI tools we have right now.
How are people not understanding that as fast as things are changing right now, things in the future will change faster and faster?
I keep trying to tell my friends and family about AI, and the only thing that’s piqued their interest is ChatGPT.
But not even in the way that they actually understand what’s going on. They seem to only see the ways that it can make their lives a little bit easier.
“Oh, so this thing can write emails for me?”
“Wait, so it’s like Google but like, you ask it stuff?”
“Can you ask it what boba is made out of?”
And then we get into the part that gets me really frustrated, when I start showing them things and they just don’t understand or even care to try to understand what they’re really looking at, how it’s going to impact their future, or how they can leverage its immense power right now to make a difference in their lives.
“So can it do my taxes for me?”
“Does it know how to make $1 million?”
“Can it write my social media posts for my job?”
It’s like they’re so close to getting it, but they just completely in fundamentally. Miss the point. They just can’t see the bigger picture.
I don’t know what that means. I don’t know if that’s a symptom of our society, or human nature. Are people really only so concerned with themselves and their immediate surroundings?
Every so often I’ll encounter someone who seems to grasp the magnitude of what’s going on, but even when that happens, most people I’ve talk to you either rejected and want to destroy it, or they get overwhelmed, and they change the subject to something more immediate, like the weather or the game.
I enjoy reading the posts on this sub because I feel like I’m staying informed. Thank you all for doing what you do and posting what you post.
I just wish that more people cared in my real life, you know?"
This reddit user correctly indicates a severe lack of judgement on the part of his peers and social circle. Most do not realize what is before their face right now, and completely overlook the powerful tool that is readily available to use, even in its humbler form as ChatGPT, You.com and other such services that let us use Language Models to complete work.
This same thought bothered me last night, as I tried to grasp the change -- and couldn't. The only conclusion that came promptly was that we need to upgrade somehow -- to not only leave behind a former way of thought, but to leave behind prejudices regarding how work is accomplished and to what end, its broadest possibilities broadening further than we can obtain.
The maximum disruption is here. Not only does a human being not belong in a sphere of near infinite influence, it doesn't know how to cope with it without education. And that is probably where the disruption ends, when education can take place, elevating the imagination, engineering, adaptive critical thinking .... which we all are sorely lacking due to the technological decade of the early internet.
Mere browsers and spreadsheets defined technology and it was limited enough that the technical complexities, you could overcome them with persistence and training. Coding was the forefront for the public -- people who attained the scribe's status as at least an adequate coder gained a kind of respect.
Now that coding is nearly irrelevant, the realm is transformed for the creatives, the vagabonds, the mixers, blenders, alchemists of the thought and form and can perceive their limits and crash through them with ease, complexity be damned, unfamiliar territories appearing only as mere mist in the dark.
I don't know if I make sense to you, much like this reddit poster. He probably thinks there are rebels like him out there so had to shout this frustration out for all to hear. You're idiots, all of you, if you use ChatGPT for spreadsheets. But we're all idiots when it comes to abandoning the familiar, unless we're so brave that we can remove those familiar foundation blocks of 'what is possible'.
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