5 thoughts on “And that is on a slow day.

  1. I found a loose socket on a walk with my wife the other day. Picked it up and sure as sh!t it’s 10mm. I laughed. My wife didn’t understand. I tried to explain it but she still didn’t understand.

  2. The only jobs AI may take are coders that can’t keep up with the LLM. People that install those millions of circuit boards populated with hundreds of AI chips and wire them up to the net backbone will still have jobs as will the majority of people who do manual labor today. Skilled tradesmen; HVAC installers and maintainers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters and the people that diagnose hardware problems and fix them etc, don’t have to worry, IMHO. Burger flippers? Not so much, maybe.

    People who work at jobs that require decision making based on a myriad of data inputs? Learn to code or develop manual labor skills. College degrees that aren’t stem oriented are already not making the money invested in their degree program, so they’re even more effd, especially now that DEI has been lobotomized.

    • I remain unconvinced that AI will ever manage to do that. These companies are all operating in a bubble, and have yet to make a working (profitable) business case for this bullshit. They will expend hundreds of billions of dollars and terawatts of electrical power to run these things, and as shitty as they are, I also remain unconvinced they will improve to the point necessary to make them truly worthwhile, due to the garbage in/garbage out rule. .
      Also consider this: people keep noticing (and complaining about) the way these “AI’s” will flat out fabricate a bullshit answer from whole cloth, and present it as fact. There’s a simple reason for this: You cannot sell a service (much less profit from it) that gives an answer of “I don’t know”, therefore these are all built from the ground up (and fully with intent) never to come back “empty handed” because that cannot be monetized. It also destroys the perceived usefulness (and false superiority) that most people have regarding AI.

      Most of all, AI is the present bubble du jour. It is over promising and under delivering, and will continue to do so. Everyone is on the bandwagon, because investors are always looking for an easy money play, and companies in nearly any industry feel obligated to get on board with the current big thing, no matter how stupid it is.

      Look at DEI (which was very much a bubble, and still is, even if it’s influence has been diminished). Nearly everyone paid lip service to it, and most actually put their companies on the line, despite the obvious harm such policies would cause. AI Is much the same thing in the sense that the herd is all running towards it at a full sprint, and no one wants to be seen as the weirdo who “doesn’t get it”. This too shall pass, and many billions upon billions will be wasted, and ultimately lost by bag holders who were too myopic and hive minded to see any of this coming. Again.

  3. I’m pretty sure that Marty, Moog, and their assistants are the ones who are losing 10mm sockets. They’re on youtube as MightyCarMods in case you were wondering.

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