Exactly
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Bingo. AI is 50% real and 50% grift. The bubble will burst, but there are going to be casualties along the way.
As someone who builds computer infrastructure for a living, I’m hoping to not be one of them. I have zero interest in AI or its capabilities, but feel somewhat caught up in needing to keep abreast of developments in order to ensure I’m still employable for the next 15 years. I’ll be competing in the job market against folk who have embraced it, so need to stay relevant unfortunately. I have seen fairly average junior engineers, markedly increase their output in the past 12/18 months.
The Silicon Valley grift and duplicity is just another chapter in rampant capitalistic bullshit though.
Crying about how the AI industry will collapse if ingesting every song, written word or copyright protected work is not deemed fair use, makes my fucking blood boil. Your business plan is based on theft, fuck you. Nobody else gets away with this shit other than Silicon Valley. And they will, because venture capital and lawyers.
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Yeah, I don’t see how it can be seen as fair use, in good faith.
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wow that is depressingly sarcastic ™
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Being off work for a month has my sleep schedule completely fucked. I’m finding it more and more difficult to get to sleep and I’m worried that the adjustment going back to work is going to suck more than expected.
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Some of that may amount to self-imposed nervous energy compounding with a few of the concerns you’ve expressed here and the ongoing dialogue about other related subjects.
Rather than telling yourself it’s bad and it’s going to get worse, try and take the approach of taking deep breaths and telling yourself “I won’t know how it is until I know how it is” because even if you’re acknowledging that it’s not 100% within your control, by acknowledging and accepting that you have to deal with things as they come, perhaps you can diffuse some of that nervous energy which is starting to form a cycle of dis-ease.
From my understanding, your body is still healing and that makes it more difficult for your brain to pick up the slack.
I’m not downplaying your concerns or your situation, but there is a good argument made for giving yourself a break here, because these concerns do not seem to be putting you in the best position to succeed should the opportunity for success be present. It’s heightening your nerves and dulling your responses, so as best possible (even if you have to follow a youtube video) try and practice some controlled breathing exercises and engage positive neural pathways.
CBT in a nutshell is recognizing thought patterns that spiral into the negative and overwriting them by changing the flow of information. Rather than that first thought that going back will suck more than expected taking you into a loop of why it will suck and then ultimately back to it will suck, find ways to visualize an outcome which leaves you more in control of yourself, your pain, and your situation. This will better prepare you for acclimating back into that environment without the compound stress impacting your ability to perform in your normal role at full capacity.
I really empathize and I know it probably sounds like new age garbage but give it a try, that’s my best advice.
I believe that you’re more capable than you give yourself credit for, both as an employee, and as part of a team. You also have more resilience and ability to deal with difficulties and pain than people who have never had to face it head-on as you have. These are all factors which put you in a superior position beyond the scope of your own vision, so though you may feel daunted by the task, recognize your worth and realize that once you get back into that role and find that you can breathe through it and succeed in reintegration, you may also find some additional improvements falling into place.
I know it’s difficult to envision and especially to hear someone who is not in your direct position talk about your specific situations, but if you pull back a bit and refocus, you may find that these concerns can impact anyone and I think that people here understand and if you needed them to, people at work would understand too. Just acknowledging that you’re dealing with things others could relate to, but could not even imagine the reality of, might show you that you’re a very strong person and dealing with this will ultimately be “business as usual” except hopefully on the tail end of it, some marked improvement in pain and mobility is not unattainable.
I wish I had some more inspiring words, but in reality, you are going to be the strongest or weakest link in the chain for your own recovery as well as your own progress and I do feel like knowing a bit about you and your situation and interacting with you, that you definitely have the ability to make it through this and come out on top.
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The company I work for (building designers/architecture/interior design) has tasked me with leading the charge to replace everyone else’s job with AI (and my own eventually). They didn’t put it like that, but that is their implication.
I am fundamentally opposed to implementing this so I see it as my true goal to undermine the cabal of anti-human technocrat managerial scum that see this as a good idea. Thankfully I was able to undertake some paid training so got some great insights into the very real holes in the ‘learning’ side of ‘machine learning’.
At least with humans the golden rule of garbage-in = garbage-out applies. With AI it’s far, far worse, because it can re-structure garbage to appear creative, insightful, even (rarely) appropriate on the output.
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Someone shared this blog entry and article with me which might be of interest to some of you. “Shaking my damn head” is the lightest description that I can give.
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Wow. I work and my sleep schedule is fucked.
I take 5 day weekends to get some rest, and even when not working my sleep schedule is fucked.
Thank god for Xanax
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Fuck me this forum is so fucking boring lately.
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your hearty bellows are sorely missed.
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Only boring forums get bored
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So I got NI Super 8 today in the summer sale because it was the only Reaktor synth I didn’t have yet. Great synth, but even if just idling it spikes my M4 Max CPU(!) beyond 100% every couple of seconds making it basically unusable. Apparently this is a Reaktor Mac issue but good job selling broken stuff NI, sjeez.
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Be fair, M series Macs are only four generations old.
Bit much to expect a company like NI to sort compatibility out that fast…
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I had almost forgiven them for turning my trusty old Maschine Mk1 into a paperweight, and now this…
It’s not like I have another 1000 Jupiter 8 software clones 
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I love you for this, and it’s something I’ve thought about for myself. I also work at an architecture firm and I’m vocal anytime AI comes up.
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I’ve already told my work that if they let the robot write the code, then the robot damn well better be able to debug it, because I sure as hell won’t do it. It may be cold comfort to you, but there’s a big push right now in the research community to “poison pill” the AI training sets. That’s the battlefield
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Have you seen this? It’s pretty great.
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