Cute–but it’s the humans that are burning out, not the robots.
A study by the Upwork Research Institute finds “AI [“Artificial Intelligence”] hinders productivity and makes work worse” (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/26/ai_hinders_productivity/).
Are we trying to replace the human race? The study covered workers in the U.S., the UK, Australia and Canada… uncovering what we might call, after Shakespeare, a “winter of discontent.”
Bosses expect higher output from workers using AI, but what they’re getting is burnout: 38% of employees are feeling “overwhelmed.”
Yeahbut! AI is supposed to make things better–right? “AI seems to encourage magical thinking,” reports The Register.
Honk if you’re surprised.
Are we so cotton-pickin’ dumb that we can’t work without robotic overseers?
(Don’t answer that!)
It always buggs me when I see all this junk about AI and humanoid robots. Got no patience for that stuff. Guess I’m too old to appreciate them.
It’s stupid people trying to sound smart.
I think you are spot on, Erlene. I don’t work with AI nor directly with robots, but I find that immersion in tech can become wearisome, and I avoid it strenuously, away from working hours. The reason for this, is very simple; machines have no soul, no consciousness nor any sense of right or wrong. Our conscience is literally a God given attribute that gives us compassion, a sense of justice and insight into the feelings of others. No machine can do this. Computers are tools, and they can be very useful tools, but they can’t replace humans, and they can’t think for themselves, nor can they have a conscience.
Mankind is at a Babel moment, with computer based communications and machine translation pushing back against what was ordained at the time of the Babel diaspora. There are bound to be problems because of this, and we are seeing them.
In the long run, AI will not succeed. What I believe will happen will be a whole new industry of fixing AI mistakes, which requires a human touch. Eventually, the cost of such fixing will exceed any benefits that AI brings, and the attraction to AI will decline.
I think you have really nailed it, saying everything I have been thinking and saying about this whole mess. I kind of have to chuckle when I see some of the AI generated mis-spelling and bad grammar and pronunciation. So much for their human surpassing brilliance.
Computers have no sense, whatsoever. When God breathed life into Adam, he became a living soul. My living soul includes my memories, my experiences and all I have learned. One only has to touch a hot stove once to remember not to do that, a computer could never learn that, and any self protecting logic built into a computer was programmed in by a living soul.
In the last year or so, I’ve given a lot of thought to consciousness, memory and being a living soul. The spark which makes consciousness possible comes directly from God. We can’t give it to our earthly creations, because we do not have the ability to grant life to an inanimate object.
As amazing as computers are, they do not have the sense of the most modest living creature. They are not conscious, and are not self aware. Even the term Artificial Intelligence strikes me as misleading, because there is no actual intelligence possible.
It reminds me of the saying: “the man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing”. I’ve met people like that, who had an amazing fund of factual information, but couldn’t process it into anything useful. Such a person might extend their finances to buy an expensive automobile, without stopping to consider the insurance, upkeep and licensing costs, which will continue long after the exhilaration of buying a new car has dissipated.
But a computer has even less sense than such a human, because the entire equation of such a purchase consists of numbers, and while a computer can be programmed to issue a warning involving ongoing costs, it can’t possibly have the feeling a human experiences when they realize that a decision might put them in peril, not can it think on its feet, and take steps to avoid disaster.