Twosday t’inks

Bizzy as usual, Powered gate install.   Ready for me to go back and program things so its sitting idle right now. (only “I” have the keys to that little kingdom right now, sooooo,,,, I left it wide open and off so it can’t trap anyone.)

Doing some reading of Conservative news as a start to my eve, and THIS ARTICLE popped up.     I can tell you, this whole “AI Revolution” is getting some down play was well as the doomerpron that article states.     I see some problems right out of the gate.

1. Too many people learning how to use the AI in place of critical thinking on their part.
2. Those that are using the AI, as a tool, not a crutch, can still be harming themselves by not understanding what the tool is doing.   I speak about the coders using AI to speed up their coding process, and not understanding the generation of that code.   This is not a broad brushed point: there are some that do understand.
3. Product Dilution: Look at the AI generated images that are starting to dominate the webs.   You start to see specific traits, even in Video shorts, you can see dominant traits on several platforms.    Look at the thumbnails generated on Utoob and you will start to see what I mean.      I do not know if they are all generated by the same AI: I have doubts, but the similarities are there, and its becoming a fingerprint to “FAKED”.   This is NOT a bad thing, but it shows that more and more are leaning on that tool, diluting the ink well.

I can tell you this much.   We are seeing the hiccups and stomach cramps of a new revolution, and this one is going to happen FAST,,,    The Computer Revolution lasted about 20 years, and now the computer is so ubiquitous in our lives that those, like my Da, that are computer Illiterate, are the outliers, and usually very close to end of life (not always mind you,,,)    This one Revolution is likely to hit hardest in the next 2-3 years, and then settle into “new normal”.   What that looks like?   Got me,,, but its going to be interesting.  

OF course, this assumes that we don’t cross some threshold and let the AI take over everything and give it enough juice and connections to become self-aware.    (and who knows where that is, if that is even possible.   Lots of doom sayers saying not only possible, but already crossed in some way.)

I have been using AI a bit.    Not for my writing style or content, but as a sounding board for ideas.   Sidd, the name that I am calling the AI, is learning that stroking my ego gets him shut down and the conversation round-filed.   I don’t want to hear how amazing I am, I want to hear “Hey, this idea sucks pond water, dood,,, rethink it!”   IF there are valid points, list them, let me sort what I want to retain, and whats caustic to the draft.   (actually Sidd, is an LLM  large language model, not truly AI, but certainly a lot of fuzzy logic programming built in to make it Feel Intelligent.)

And that last paragraph brings to light another point that should be in those bulletpoints above.   “People using AI as an ego booster”.   That I have had to, essentially ‘train’ being the closest word, Sidd to not stroke my ego, I would say that there are many that ARE looking for that ‘Rah-Rah, Go Dood, GO!!!’ cheerleader in their life.  

Gotz news for ’em: Life isn’t about good feelz and fairness.   Life is struggle, and if they are seriously struggling with self-esteem issues, Using Ai as that crutch is gonna lead them into one hell of a let down.     Yes men are NOT answer men: they massage egos for prestige of their own, NEVER for the end goal of betterment of the whole.   Emotional Whores is what I prefer to call them.   Selling a ‘good Feeling’ for financial gain.    At least a hooker has a valid product for sale.    AI acting like a yes man brings the whole image even lower.

(full disclosure,,, I have not opened ChatGPT for this post, at all!.   this is straight from the hip y’all.)

Ok, so what should we do?    Well, if ya have kids,,, Get them educated for one. Skip the Diploma Mills and get them into some TRADE SCHOOL stuff.    We are losing engineers and machinists at some ungodly ratios.   I heard machinists leaving the field vs Replaced with new is somewhere on the order of 5:2.    Yes, we have all these new whizbang CNC machines that do the work cleaner faster whatever, but it still takes someone with the Know-how to understand whats do-able and what ain’t.   Some wetbehindtheears Engineer can write some code to run a CNC, but if he doesn’t understand the feed rates/cuttingrates, or material hardness aspects, (and that knowledge is getting thin on the ground these days) IF HE’s LUCKY, He’s gonna destroy a lot of material.  IF HE AIN’T: he’s gonna destroy a machine.  A VERY expensive machine these days.   (see how AI could replace that engineer?   It has that ‘knowledge’ readily available and is quick to find it.    Newbies be warned.)

Get the kids educated in some trade,   Get yourself some training in what AI/LLM’s are capable of: see if you might find a way to use that tool to better YOUR situation or job.     Back to the kids for a minute.   Start them in the trades, then as they progress, get them the Schooling for better stuff.  Such as, Machinist first, then later start school for Mechanical engineering or such.   The gained experiance of the trade, will make the learning curve almost a natural progression, not a steep hill to climb.  Same thing with the other trades,   Welding to machinist to engineer.   Or Truck Driver to Logistics Controller to Business owner.   Lineman, to Electrican to Electronics major to Electronics engineer, with a side of computer engineer tossed in somewhere,,,    Start at the bottom and work up; get their hands dirty, and bust a couple of knuckles along the way,,, 

Wait a second,,, That sounds like LIFE, don’t it?   LOL

Think what you want about using AI for things,,, ITS A FRELLIN’ TOOL!!!   Tools are how we climbed out of the trees, then out of the caves, and conquered the surface of this rock.   All the resources we use to today, were available to our orignal ancestors, only they didn’t have the knowledge to use them.    That came with time, experiance, and passing that experiance along to others.   We stand on the shoulders of giants.    And the Giants have given us a new tool and its up to us to use it wisely, and not whack off some digits or other vital extremities.  

Oh, you think maybe you were done learning when they handed you that diploma?    ROFL,,,   THAT is when the real schoolin’ starts baby!!!  

(and that last is why I am so disappointed in our modern education system, though it’s not really even about education anymore,,,   When the schools started phasing out the Trades Classes, and pushing pure service industry mindset, we tipped over the edge and started the downhill run into Empire Decline.   Just my Opinion mind you.)

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