For balance... I'm always looking for something huge that isn't a flagship Pro Ultra XL Plus megabucks model, because I'm old and the bigger the screen the more easily I can read it.
I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.
Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.
I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.
But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?
You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.
I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.
GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.
Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.
Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.
Tax funded?
Not private property anymore.
His work in assisting the music industry extend it's grip on music distribution is now being felt with a dearth of options for musicians. It's little wonder why music from the 90's is still popular.
Thought experiment: in 100 years' time, do we think people will have plastic driver's licences and paper passports?
I'm not convinced they will, barring something like the internet becoming unviable because of runaway cybercrime AIs or somesuch civilisational calamity.
So at some point between now and then those things would go electronic, and I don't have any massive objection to things starting now rather than in a couple of decades' time.
Other countries have done it (Estonia is the one that comes up time and again, and they did it before smartphones existed) and the sky's not fallen in, so I'm not overly worried.
I expect egovernment stuff will make this easier - i.e. the government app that ends up on everyone's phone (digital ID, healthcare etc) could prompt you to answer 1 question from time to time for a chance to win an Amazon voucher or something.
This is retarded.
1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.
I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.
Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.
Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.
No, because experience isn't a protected category. Age is, but only in certain cases mostly dealing with existing employees. Youth isn't protected at all:
https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discr...
"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older."
This won't be about helping the driver, it'll be about monitoring them, and gathering data for AI.
Did they run the stop sign before the accident? Did they check the Amazon driver app 12 times per hour as contractually required? Does their gaze linger on men or women? What is the demography of the area they're driving through? etc
My alternative prediction: no IT work will be possible except in airgapped environments because AI malware will make having a device connected to the internet essentially impossible. Site visits will be a thing again.
It's really hard to know how much of this is because of AI, and how much of it is because of reduced skills due to COVID era education policies.
Agreed, Asshole Infiltration in I.T is a problem and it seems like Gen Z
If all you know is a minimal subset of the language, you don't know the language. What you describe may be ok for a toy app you write on your own time and never need to support or put to serious use, but not for anything approaching actual development. What you describe is hacking, not developing.
"Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit!" -- Looney Tunes, "What's Opera Doc?" (1957, Chuck Jones)
