I can‘t decide whether you‘re being way too optimistic about AI in the foreseeable future or about millennials.
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 days ago
If AI agents stick around, I feel like they’re going to be the thing millennials as a generation refuse to adopt and are made fun of for in 20-30 years. Younger generations will be automating their lives and millennials will be the holdouts, writing our emails manually and doing our own banking, while our grandkids are like, “Grandpa, you know AI can do all of that for you, why are you still living in the 2000s?” And we’ll tell stories about how, in our day, AI used to ruin peoples’ lives on a whim.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 days ago
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 days ago
As a millennial who refuses to touch AI or use I’m already being bullied and excluded lol.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
Yeah, but those darn whippersnappers won’t hear us from their frolicking in their AI clouds.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They will, unfortunately, be radicalized by AI slop in ways we can’t currently conceive of. The stupidity and ignorance will be a huge problem in decades to come.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
By definition, having one’s life automated means not knowing how to do anything, and that is very strongly reflected in the younger generation right now if you know any educators.
It’s not the life for me.
setsubyou@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think it means that by definition. Not knowing how to do things yourself is a choice. And it’s the same choice we’ve been making ever since human civilization became too complex for one person to be an expert at everything. We choose to not learn how to do jobs we can have someone else, or a machine, handle all the time. If we choose wisely, we can greatly increase our capacity to get things done.
When I went to school in the 90ies, other students were asking the same question about math, because calculators existed. I don’t think they were 100% right because at least a basic understanding of math is generally useful even now with AI. But our teachers who were saying that we shouldn’t rely on calculators because they have limits and we won’t always have one with us were certainly not right either.
Personally I don’t like AI for everything either. But also, current AI assistants are just not trustworthy and for me that’s the more important point. I do write e-mails myself but I don’t see a conceptual difference between letting an AI do it, and letting a human secretary do it, which is not exactly unheard of. I just don’t trust current models nor the companies that operate them enough to let them handle something so personal. Similarly, even though I’ve always been interested in learning languages, I don’t see a big conceptual difference between using AI for translation and asking a human to do it, which is what most people did in the past. And so on.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah, it’s like consoles vs PCs. Those who are hardcore PC prefer it due to all the flexibility it provides while hardcore console people find PC too troublesome and complicated.
Which is also the case for smart phones vs PCs where PC is too complicated in that aspect too with people preferring easy to use sandbox and don’t even know what a file explorer is.
This is one of those cases where as opposed to people not adopting new tech because they are less educated like old people had trouble comprehending the Internet its more tech and privacy educated individuals being aware of the risks. And even if they use AI they’d opt for a locally run open source instance over the corporate provided ones the masses flock to.
Like people who set up their own personal security camera system versus those who mindless pick up a Blink camera without a second thought.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s an excellent analogy. Thank you.