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I understand that older people have a decades-long reputation for not adopting new things because we just don't like adopting new things. And #AI is the latest thing we're too grumpy to grok, ya? But in the case of my colleagues & myself, you're wrong if you think that. We've been early (...cont'd)
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Show threadkelvind.com13h ago
adopters of technical things all our lives. I was on the Internet before AOL. Way back in the CompUServe days. I was on #PacketRadio long before #APRS was a thing. Long before #WinLink. I poked around with AI very early on. My resistance to it is not 'cuz I'm an old fuddy-duddy. (...cont'd)
Show threadkelvind.com13h ago
No - it's because I'm technically advanced, savvy, experienced, & knowledgeable (on many subjects). I ask AI questions that I know the answer to - questions about my lived history. And it makes shit up. I know it makes shit up because I WAS THERE AT THE TIME & know the truth. (...cont'd)
Show threadkelvind.com13h ago
A big problem with all of this is how many younger people have no memory of the world that existed before the Internet, so they just don't know the truth of so many subjects, & accept whatever the computer tells them. Then there's the CEOs, a big minority of whom are not in the position (...cont'd)
Show threadkelvind.com13h ago
because of their brilliance, but because of who they know, of whom they were born. Classist gits who couldn't solve a software development problem if it was as simple as spelling things correctly, or properly punctuating a sentence. I mean, STUPID people with power & wealth. (...cont'd)
Show threadkelvind.com13h ago
Dumbasses. People so dumb they can't do math, so they don't really understand how much wealth they have, nor how that's a problem, & think they need more, because that's what everybody else they know thinks. THIS is who is driving the AI bubble. So THINK about that shit, please.