They aren’t going to like me then. I deleted my LinkedIn profile. I’m tired of them continuously leaking my personal info to the dark web, which has happened multiple times, not to mention their data getting constantly scraped. I’m tired of all the sales calls by people who are figuring out my personal contact info from it, and are relentless in trying to sell me their latest AI slop. But most of all, I’m just straight up tired of the feed of super gross political and asskissing posts by people whom I’ve met once or for the most part barely know. I suspect a growing number of people trying to interact with you on that platform aren’t actual real people, and Linkedin just straight up clearly has zero concern for your personal safety or security.

I understand the need for networking, but that ain’t it. That’s chaos.

I’m not convinced this wasn’t a problem before AI. Those ATS systems have long been an issue.

Let’s not lose focus more on the more immediate concern here, that this person is using a human pronoun to describe a computer.

I’m not looking at it wrong, I think we need to look at it as two different things. I’m not a technology skeptic, I believe in technology, and I believe it largely makes the whole us better off. That’s not what “AI” is though, AI under its current definition is snake oil, and it’s a bubble. It’s something that salespeople circle jerk off over while they sell an illusion to stupid unimaginative executives. What you seem to fear is AGI, which is an entirely different thing.

Because it’s just that, snake oil. Fuck AI

I mean I think there’s hope for it. It’s the natural evolution of tech. But it’s not what we are being sold, like it’s not just like yep whelp here’s AI and it’ll literally do everything now. If you understand computational and mathematical limitations, that’s literally not possible. A mathematical equation from the age of Turing still stands true, 2^n-1 means that you are going to need a fuck load of computing power for anything meaningful. That doesn’t really exist. Yet.

It’s just fantasy in regards to the replacing everything. The same thing happened back in the 60s and the 70s with the fantasy that computers were going to make everything in life easy peasy. Flying cars and all of that. No doubt computers have made our lives easier, and have progressed us as a society (debatable when it comes to social media). But it isnt the end all, be all that it was promised to be. I still don’t have a hoverboard or a personal flying car, which I DO have to admit I’m super bummed about.

Just look at the paperless society era. We still print stuff out, 40-50 years later. Maybe a lot less, but it didn’t put us all out of jobs, it just made us work smarter and maybe made things a little easier to reference.

That’s all this AI stuff is, its just the next evolution of reference. If anyone thinks it’s ready to put me out of a job, whelp I double dog dare them. One company I’m associated with is at this stage, drunk on the AI. It’s all just super disconnected execs fantasizing in between drunken lunches and boat purchases. Their day is coming, don’t worry.