Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 18:07     Subject: The AI bubble is popping

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have 2 kids aged 11 and 13. The 11 years old uses AI for everything and she knows how to prompt various AI systems to get answers. My 13 years likewise. I am 46 years old. Perhaps people my age are skeptical about AI, but I think it will play a major part in the future.


That’s great, but they can’t think critically.

AI is to the brain what things like cars and power tools were for human physical activity. Outsourcing physical activity weakened people’s physical ability. Next up: outsourcing thinking and weakening people’s ability to analyze and create.


Also, each of those prompts costs something like $10 in computing and electricity costs, they just aren't getting passed along to the gen pop end user right now. If they were actually charging what it costs to run these systems, almost nobody would pay it.


You're off by a couple orders of magnitude. The true cost is closer to 10 cents, not 10 dollars.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 17:56     Subject: The AI bubble is popping

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have 2 kids aged 11 and 13. The 11 years old uses AI for everything and she knows how to prompt various AI systems to get answers. My 13 years likewise. I am 46 years old. Perhaps people my age are skeptical about AI, but I think it will play a major part in the future.


That’s great, but they can’t think critically.

AI is to the brain what things like cars and power tools were for human physical activity. Outsourcing physical activity weakened people’s physical ability. Next up: outsourcing thinking and weakening people’s ability to analyze and create.


I disagree. As human we are only using a tiny portion of our potential. Humans are incredibly smart. The more we can do with AI, the more we can unleash our potential.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 17:54     Subject: The AI bubble is popping

I don't have an issue with AI. But if that weirdo Sam Altman should shut up for a day that would be awesome.