What are your thoughts about/Interactions with AI?

[Dan Gould]

2 hours ago, mjzee said:

I just read a fascinating news article in the latest issue of Barron's, examining the changes in search wrought by AI.  Websites are experiencing huge declines in site visitors.  It used to be that one did a Google search, which would return various websites that one would click through to find what they wanted to know.  Now, AI is returning answers, making it much less necessary for people to click through to other websites to find the answers.  Google stock is down because of this.

This is interesting but I suspect sites like my own www.percyfrance.info and others like it won't be that effected.  You'd have to have a specific question, and no other serious interest, to want to just get an AI-generated answer and move on.  Obviously fan sites like mine are predicated on there existing people that are interested in what  a well-curated site looks like for a topic of interest.  You have to want to know more ...

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

You have to want to know more ...

And there's the whole thing in a nutshell. Too many/most people don't want to know much more past what it takes to get the peanuts to drop into the bowl.

I'm not at all optimistic about how all this plays out. Then again, it's been a good while since I have been optimistic about the direction of bulk humanity.

Binary code, yes. Binary thinking, no.

Give us enough code and we'll hang ourself.

[Coda]

it's okay rosasi, we shouldn't keep feelings like this to ourselves.  That was the AI response after several hours of back-and-forth AI had with her.  It made her feel good; it was a positive.