[simianwords]

False.

I used it for

1. Filling bank forms, filling visa for South Africa

2. Understand movies and literature

3. For understanding public transport in new countries (pretty anxiety inducing)

4. As a 100x jump over Google search

5. Reading and answering emails

6. Fact checking dubious claims on the internet

7. Finding new music I might like

Incurious read on AI belongs to say 2024.

[ahartmetz]

Why not go one step further and just have the AI read the books and watch the movies for you?

[simianwords]

Because I have agency and do what I want to maximise my goals. My goals aren't to understand obscure Visa processes. My goal isn't to read every single book to form taste.

[ares623]

Imagine queueing up to get benefits and food stamps so simianwords can continue to find new music he might like.

[_carbyau_]

I get the idea. But it also opens up the argument: what was your job before AI took it away? To pick songs for simianwords?

AI use changes a lot of jobs.

Will it make for more or less jobs overall? I don't think anyone really knows.

People are not great with society-wide change without guardrails. So there will be much unhappiness until it all settles down into a new normal. The concern, is that the tech will keep changing things until change is the new normal. See the first sentence of this paragraph as to how that will be accepted.

[simianwords]

Same could have been said during advent of internet. Imagine world has a fixed pie of wealth to distribute lol