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Andrew Smith's avatar

I love the Memento explanation, and I'm stealing it. I know the improved learning myth stuck with me for a while for some reason, until I learned more about how these suckas work.

I have a good working theory on why this is happening:

"To this day, the meme continues to gain traction in Facebook groups and Reddit threads. Try searching for “AI accepting the job” on Twitter / X and see what pops up."

I think most folks (let's be real - almost everyone in the world) is in the camp of never trying any image generators, so they only learn about how messed up these things are in memes. Memes take a while to be created and circulate to groups that aren't already plugged in (and the groups that are plugged in know damn well that AGI can make hands today, thank the gods).

Do I get a Noble (sic) prize for discovering this reason or what?

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Rania's avatar

The most pervasive AI mythology that I encounter is that AI will take all the jobs, or that AI won't take any of our jobs. I think it'll influence plenty of jobs, and will probably replace some (poorly), but I don't think it's an all-or-nothing conversation.

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