[selfhoster]

> No surprise here, same can be true of IT. I remember a time before PCs and most work was done on Mainframes and paper w/file cabinets.

I understand your point but it lacks accuracy in that mainframes, paper and filing cabinets are deterministic tools. AI is neither deterministic nor a tool.

[signatoremo]

> AI is neither deterministic nor a tool

You keep repeating this in this thread, but as has been refuted elsewhere, this doesn't mean AI is not productive. A tool it definitely can be. Your handwriting is non deterministic, yet you could write reports with it.

[codr7]

Yes, but the one thing computers had going for them over humans was determinism, and we just threw that out the window.

[signatoremo]

We did not throw that out the window. AI is new capability on top of what the computer is already capable of

[codr7]

No, AI is a computer pretending (badly) to be human.

[thowawatp302]

If AI isn’t either of those things, then what is it?

[xigency]

Unironically it's a form of occult divination. I know it sounds crazy but it really is the synthesis of humans' collective works combined with some dice rolls. I'm quite honestly surprised someone more superstitious than I am hasn't raised this point yet (that I've seen).