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I have to use some AI stuff for work so I have no choice there. I simply will not watch or listen to anything I know was made by AI otherwise. I hate feeding that learning machine knowing it is just taking away from real people making real content. I already dont like content that simply consolidates others content without adding any value and I hate it even worse when it is AI generated. If I could escape using it for work I would. But sadly, many software teams are caught in the middle. Dont use it and you cost 3x what the people using it cost and are not remotely competitive. Use it and your team still gets work, just much less of it. I am watching what it is doing to the workforce and it is terrible honestly. We will need maybe 1/4 of the SW engineers we use today in the matter of a year or two. That is not even slightly exaggerating. It may be worse actually. So that is a lot of people who spent a lot of time, money and effort learning a skill that will not be able to find jobs.
As an example, a friend is a contract embedded firmware developer. Using AI it takes him 30% of the time it used to in order to develop code. So he has to continually find more projects. He estimates the tools will be twice as good now in maybe 6 months, further reducing billable hours. And some will feed us the whole "but you can do so much more in less time so you can get more work done" thing. No, now, those companies that did not want to invest in big software teams of their own (and contracted it out) will be more likely to hire a team 1/4 that size and use AI tools for their development.
Remember when all those old guys WAAYYY back said computers would take peoples jobs and we kinda laughed or blew it off? Well this is that happening at a much faster scale than automating some machine in a factory.
We are an incredibly smart yet incredibly stupid species.
As an example, a friend is a contract embedded firmware developer. Using AI it takes him 30% of the time it used to in order to develop code. So he has to continually find more projects. He estimates the tools will be twice as good now in maybe 6 months, further reducing billable hours. And some will feed us the whole "but you can do so much more in less time so you can get more work done" thing. No, now, those companies that did not want to invest in big software teams of their own (and contracted it out) will be more likely to hire a team 1/4 that size and use AI tools for their development.
Remember when all those old guys WAAYYY back said computers would take peoples jobs and we kinda laughed or blew it off? Well this is that happening at a much faster scale than automating some machine in a factory.
We are an incredibly smart yet incredibly stupid species.
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Yes. AI is here to stay, so you might as well get used to using it. For better or worse.
What I dislike are these AI-generated art (music and video), where it is nowhere stated that they are AI-made. Apparently, these days, a good percentage of Spotify's music is AI-generated. But, not identified as such. So, I guess if no one can tell, it doesn't matter? That just doesn't seem right.
What I dislike are these AI-generated art (music and video), where it is nowhere stated that they are AI-made. Apparently, these days, a good percentage of Spotify's music is AI-generated. But, not identified as such. So, I guess if no one can tell, it doesn't matter? That just doesn't seem right.
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Let’s see if I can distill my last year down to something simple. By day, I’m a Technical Program Manager, and I just delivered my first AI HW platform. By night, still play Western Art (read: Classical) Music.
AI Music: Garbage In, Garbage Out, and it mostly shows. I do think AI music as it mostly sits today is a damning indicator that we’re a culture and society driven by business, when perhaps it should be be the other way around. We don’t want music (and by extension the arts in general) to challenge us with human interfence. We just want a beat and tone consumption product. If we want more, we’ll need to demand it.
AI in general, like any major industrial pivot point, holds the promise of us working less on the mundane, and working more on things perhaps beyond our own comprehension. Like the issues of music and art, there’s a challenge of genuine self-examination (both introspection and sociologically) that is happening in real time. Whether we’re equipped to handle that is a question beyond the breezy halls of casual discussion.
AI Music: Garbage In, Garbage Out, and it mostly shows. I do think AI music as it mostly sits today is a damning indicator that we’re a culture and society driven by business, when perhaps it should be be the other way around. We don’t want music (and by extension the arts in general) to challenge us with human interfence. We just want a beat and tone consumption product. If we want more, we’ll need to demand it.
AI in general, like any major industrial pivot point, holds the promise of us working less on the mundane, and working more on things perhaps beyond our own comprehension. Like the issues of music and art, there’s a challenge of genuine self-examination (both introspection and sociologically) that is happening in real time. Whether we’re equipped to handle that is a question beyond the breezy halls of casual discussion.
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Let’s see if I can distill my last year down to something simple. By day, I’m a Technical Program Manager, and I just delivered my first AI HW platform. By night, still play Western Art (read: Classical) Music.
AI Music: Garbage In, Garbage Out, and it mostly shows. I do think AI music as it mostly sits today is a damning indicator that we’re a culture and society driven by business, when perhaps it should be be the other way around. We don’t want music (and by extension the arts in general) to challenge us with human interfence. We just want a beat and tone consumption product. If we want more, we’ll need to demand it.
AI in general, like any major industrial pivot point, holds the promise of us working less on the mundane, and working more on things perhaps beyond our own comprehension. Like the issues of music and art, there’s a challenge of genuine self-examination (both introspection and sociologically) that is happening in real time. Whether we’re equipped to handle that is a question beyond the breezy halls of casual discussion.
AI Music: Garbage In, Garbage Out, and it mostly shows. I do think AI music as it mostly sits today is a damning indicator that we’re a culture and society driven by business, when perhaps it should be be the other way around. We don’t want music (and by extension the arts in general) to challenge us with human interfence. We just want a beat and tone consumption product. If we want more, we’ll need to demand it.
AI in general, like any major industrial pivot point, holds the promise of us working less on the mundane, and working more on things perhaps beyond our own comprehension. Like the issues of music and art, there’s a challenge of genuine self-examination (both introspection and sociologically) that is happening in real time. Whether we’re equipped to handle that is a question beyond the breezy halls of casual discussion.
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I am also a technical program manager/PMO director. Some key points from my viewpoint regarding the work part of AI
Some mundane stuff it replaces is fine... there are mundane tasks in my role that it is hard to justify hiring a lower level position for doing and AI does that stuff fine.
However... some of the "mundane" tasks it replaces are tasks that previously took a college level of understanding at best to accomplish. I keep going back to software dev because that is a key part of this. The replacement of those mundane tasks is not allowing those people to do something more interesting. Those SW developers are not going to suddenly get all this cool new work to do... because they are experts in SW dev. People like to toss around "research" a lot. In my world (product development) we lean away from hiring anyone with researcher in their title. In 20 + years I have never known one company I work for that wanted to hire someone that had been a researcher. We develop products. That requires sticking to a plan an budget and working specifically towards requirements, which is something that is mostly alien to researchers. So different group of people all together. Not that researchers are not needed in some areas, but people whose jobs were focused on SW dev are not suddenly going to be scooped up as researchers in areas already full of those people (that also will be somewhat reduced by the implementation of AI. So what it does is effectively remove the need for a lot of those people. It does not magically make them able to do something more interesting. This is compounded by the fact that the ones you do need now are the more senior developers that can review and fix AI code. Thus, not much motivation to go to school for sw development now and when those senior people retire, welp ... who knows. But short term it simply is reducing the amount of job positions in an industry that was over touted as being the thing every young person should learn as a career path.
But back to music ... yep 21st century Muzak is a good way to put it
Some mundane stuff it replaces is fine... there are mundane tasks in my role that it is hard to justify hiring a lower level position for doing and AI does that stuff fine.
However... some of the "mundane" tasks it replaces are tasks that previously took a college level of understanding at best to accomplish. I keep going back to software dev because that is a key part of this. The replacement of those mundane tasks is not allowing those people to do something more interesting. Those SW developers are not going to suddenly get all this cool new work to do... because they are experts in SW dev. People like to toss around "research" a lot. In my world (product development) we lean away from hiring anyone with researcher in their title. In 20 + years I have never known one company I work for that wanted to hire someone that had been a researcher. We develop products. That requires sticking to a plan an budget and working specifically towards requirements, which is something that is mostly alien to researchers. So different group of people all together. Not that researchers are not needed in some areas, but people whose jobs were focused on SW dev are not suddenly going to be scooped up as researchers in areas already full of those people (that also will be somewhat reduced by the implementation of AI. So what it does is effectively remove the need for a lot of those people. It does not magically make them able to do something more interesting. This is compounded by the fact that the ones you do need now are the more senior developers that can review and fix AI code. Thus, not much motivation to go to school for sw development now and when those senior people retire, welp ... who knows. But short term it simply is reducing the amount of job positions in an industry that was over touted as being the thing every young person should learn as a career path.
But back to music ... yep 21st century Muzak is a good way to put it