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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I have never used AI lol. Why do people fear monger AI like it's some thing you are forced to use.
And nvm. I'll make my Alexa speaker fart sometimes or ask it about the weather. But I've never used chatgpt, I ignore the Google AI description nonsense. You literally don't need AI like everyone keeps saying.
Many people are being forced to use it though — this is where much of the ire is coming from. These people are likely in the minority though. Something that's much more concerning though is the use of AI that affects us, but we don't get a say: doctors being made to use generative AI transcription tools (which perform worse than established audio transcription software that doesn't use AI). The people pushing doctors to use AI are doing it to wring more productivity out of them — more patients in less time. This means that even if a patient doesn't end up with AI hallucinations in their medical records, their experience seeing their doctor will likely be worse.
Cases like this are becoming less niche as time progresses, despite mounting research showing the harms of these technologies when they're applied in this way. Increasingly we are being put into situations where AI tools aren't something to be used by us (which is something you can often opt out of), but things to be used on us. We don't find out until something goes wrong, and when it does, regular people can struggle to challenge the situation (the example coming to mind here is false positives in facial recognition systems being used by the police. It is leading to more innocent people being wrongfully arrested)
Good to know, pal! I've never used the AI either, never relied on it and never will, never asked it anything...
But my mother has. And my sister. And my sister's friend. And my sister's friend's daughter. My coworkers use AI. My friends use AI. Some of my favorite content creators use AI. I've seen a lot more people talk about how they use AI to do mundane things that wouldn't take them 2 minutes to think about, communiques for the neighborhood meeting, student speeches, Mourning messages....
I've read endless news stories of companies laying off 70% of their workforce to replace them with AI. I've seen endless articles talking about how people use AI as a therapist, as a replacement for friends and partners, as a replacement for human relationships...
I've seen hundreds of morons belittling the work of talented artists saying that "Why are you wasting your time with that? AI makes you something better in less than a minute"....
So, yes. neither you nor I make use of AI, we are not part of the circus. But everyone around us is. And that, whether we want it or not, splashes on us.
We don't, but that isn't stopping anyone from shoving it down our throats. I.e Google and Facebook, for starters.
Anytime you use YouTube, you're using AI. Anytime you use a web browser that gives you 'search suggestions', you're using AI. Those are just two very simple examples. You're sorely mistaken if you think AI isn't being forced upon you every single day.