There comes a time when one has to acknowledge that it wasn’t your gate that was left open or, your horse that bolted 
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I’m just glad that I no longer have to worry about keeping up with the technology and systems at work. That stuff used to drive me to distraction - clunky, non-intuitive and never having a help function that was helpful. It seems so much easier to only have to worry about an old PC, a fairly new smartphone and a kindle. Even my car is much more electrical than electronic.
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i like plug it in switch it on
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They were talking about “AI psychosis” on a news report the other day. Some people prefer to live in a world with AI “friends” who tell them what they want to hear rather than deal with reality.
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I just don’t know where the world is going with all this Tech stuff…
I certainly won’t be riding along with it.
As long as I can post on the forum, have a delve into X (formerly twitter) and youtube, that’s enough time spent on the computer for me…
unfortunately some of us have to deal with this at work. We (in my job) are being pushed into using AI to do more and more of our thinking work. It’s happened very quickly and I don’t think they have thought through the psychological effect on ordinary workers of this mass experiment in social manipulation. It’s like tentacles of intrusion are entering every sphere of our lives with absolutely no control and very little understanding of the long term effects.
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Very fair points.
Another issue is that AI is being used to justify significant lay-offs. And as the AI technology is best suited to more mundane, fairly simple administrative tasks (summaries of meetings, research, report writing) this will mostly hit entry level jobs. What does that mean for people trying to enter the work place today? What does that mean for getting people with experience in the middle / senior roles in 5-10 years time?
The young graduates working for me say that the jobs market is incredibly poor at the moment. Competition for jobs is intense.
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People are becoming surplus to requirement, and physical and manual jobs are getting to be a thing of the past. Either go out running, play football or other sport, or go to a gym else you will turn into a very fat bored person watching box sets all day.
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I’d have thought that manual jobs will be fairly safe from the onslaught of AI. Plumbers, electricians, plasterers - all likely to be in demand for decades to come. Junior lawyer or accountant on the other hand - very easy to swap in AI for those roles.
There in demand now since all the skilled Polish blokes have gone home, and our young people are too busy getting qualifications in media studies or art and design…Who wants to work in the cold and get their hands dirty when you can work in a nice warm office or studio reading the news.
I have reached my level of incompetence with all things technological and am embracing it. That said, I managed to hook up a new printer to my lap top via WIFI… without having a hissy fit OR throwing said printer off the balcony. 
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huge computer crash and lost Chrome and Google. still trying to restore .Managed to sign back in, looked up an old code I used
Can’t be bothered now, if it don’t come back on, it don’t come back on!
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The lady in charge of the local (quite large) council community centre told me once that AI had made her job so much easier. She was required to make Monthly reports to the council head office about the centre. Obviously i don’t know what these reports involved but I presume they would have financial, usage, booking and library information and the like.
She said that it used to take her nearly two days to compile this information but using M$ Copilot it was done in an hour almost without her intervention. She thought AI was brilliant, she is also the only person I have come across to praise Copilot (I deleted it from my machine)
Sounds like she is embracing the scrapheap 
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Yeah, that’s just what I thought Spitty…Copilot will even process her P45
Surplus to requirement… 
AI will accept or scrap a CV in a mere second. I appreciate I’m living in the past but it was kind of nice to be briefly scanned by human eyes…
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And so nice to talk to a person over the telephone Chilli. The human race is quickly becoming obsolete.
People need a purpose in life, it’s not all about money, although some people make it so, but they themselves will not avoid being put out to pasture at an early age.
Chasing cheap objects from far off lands will take the beating heart out of communities and produce poverty.
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