People are literally dependent on it
People are literally dependent on it - Lemmy.World
More of a rant than anything. I was traveling for business yesterday and the person next to me on the plane was getting some work done. I was trying not to snoop, but it’s hard not to while in the middle seat. He went back and forth between his email and chat gpt. Just copy and pasting back and forth. It was painful because apparently he didn’t know you could use keyboard shortcuts. He then pulled up teams, and messaged a group that all had very Indian looking names. They all responded. He then went to PowerPoint/excel and spent the next hour trying to make a pie chart. Something about URL bandwidth, which makes me think he’s in some kind of tech position. We were in business class. He wore designer labels. He (as far as I could tell) was successful. At no point in the 3 hour flight did a conscious thought enter his mind. Everyone keeps talking about AI not being profitable, but this guy gave me the realization: there is a growing class of people who are completely dependent on AI. Without it their lives and careers would fall apart. This guy would pay anything for it. He cannot function without it. You don’t think the tech giants don’t know this? Maybe someday soon there will be the mother of all rug-pulls.