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Good point. Some of the folks who've dabbled with AI over the past few years appear to be missing how far it's come in that time. ChatGPT is leaps and bounds better than it was when I first started using it. Like you said with the hands as one common refrain I still hear, but have you asked...

Understood and noted. Thank you. I'd said blasé, but blithe is more accurate. I think we agree though. I didn't mean that I was literally immune to marketing, but I don't think I'm more susceptible to it than most. I became a user of ChatGPT after using the product, not before using the product...

I seem to be deeply offensive to many people on this subject, which isn't my intention. I think I've reached a point of acceptance and comfort using AI that many people here haven't yet, and so my blasé references are setting people off. I think most will also get to that point though, because...

No doubt some of them will. The nature of creative work will have to fundamentally change though. I disagree that the "slop" will be distinguishable from most human creative work for much longer. Maybe a couple more years. After that, creative humans will have to look for ways to position...

You don't own your player in your DM's game. You own them when you're away from it, but within the game, it isn't yours. If it makes you feel better, if your DM commandeers your character while you're away from the game, you could tell yourself they were using a doppelgänger and you still...

Yes, but in this hypothetical, why would they? The rules allow the DM to alter the physics of reality in the game, turn everyone to stone, make humans immortal, teleport someone to Mars (even create Mars on the Material Plane), you name it. But why would they go after your character when you...

The DM can interpret, create or ignore anything within the entirety of the rules. Their purview isn't limited to a blurb about player absences during campaigns.

True. The way things are headed here, I may actually be that guy in India before long.

Fresh grads out of computer science programs are probably among the least employable people in America right now. I don't think employers care what professors teach about software engineering anymore. They just want to get projects done well, quick and cheaply. A handful of coders using AI lets...

I'd probably also say it wasn't worth the risk, but they didn't survey me before they invented it. Since we're stuck with it, I hope they at least do something cool with it before it destroys us.

Exactly. Same. Same. Same. Fascinating. I do not typically do that but will give it a try. Tell them thank you please! Yes!

Don't forget the completely fabricated videos. OpenAI just released Sora 2, their AI video generator, and whoa baby, just wait till those fake propaganda videos start spreading and getting memed and amplified. We may very well be in the late stages of democracy itself, and I don't mean that in a...

I've never said or even thought, "huh huh, learn to code" in reference to someone but fair point. I wouldn't say a career in tech is/was shortsighted, but it's certainly not as smooth sailing as it was. Agree there. Destructive? Yes, probably. Will certainly shift paradigms over the coming...

Many, many careers will disappear over the next 20 years. I wish I knew what all of them were because I'd steer my kids away from going into those careers. Still not clear which industries will be safer than others. Maybe plumbers and contractors? Skilled laborers and trades people who work with...

I work in the U.S. tech industry. Hiring in this industry here virtually stopped about a year ago. Very few people are moving around in tech jobs now, and the people who remain employed now have to use AI because they're expected to produce the same output that 2-3 people would have performed...

Haven't you ever used an AI for work where it actually helped you? I've used it to perform work thousands of times. Yes it makes mistakes that I have to prompt and train around, but when it produces a 1,000-line program for something like a local web server with a QA I want to run that day and...

Which is a crying shame because AI is a part of life now. It isn't political. It isn't religious. It should be safe to discuss. It isn't going anywhere, no matter how much people hate it.

You are a tough crowd, sir. I care about all grandmas, but I worked as a reporter for two years after college. Yeah, sorry, I don't feel bad about impugning this guy's integrity. Integrity and news reporting rarely go hand in hand. He didn't produce that story for your grandmother's benefit...

That's fair. OK, I'll take that.

I immediately acknowledged I was wrong. I could have easily lied or pivoted, but I'm not groveling for forgiveness after questioning a reporter's credibility for doing another easy, low-hanging-fruit hit piece on the evils of ChatGPT.