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AI in your world

To sum up that article......SkyNet is coming!!!!
 
I used it to help draft a will where I will be leaving everything to my wife or both my kids if my wife goes first. It took many repetitions to refine and tighten the language up as much as possible. This took a couple of hours and saved me a few hundred dollars.

I have used ChatGPT at work to strengthen and refine formal letters. I have used it to create logos for a large symposium. I also used it a few months ago to create an image we were going to use in a fishery management profile. I asked it to create an image of a black drum feeding over an oyster reef with Spartina marsh on the right of the image. It created the first very detailed, very lifelike image below. I then told it to create an image of a black drum feeding over an oyster reef with Spartina marsh on the right of the image and to make sure the fish was in the water and it came up with the second image. Even though AI did the work, a human still needs to know enough to provide proper guidance and articulate exactly what they want.

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Turkish said:
I was a high-achiever in school and my parents knew exactly what to push me toward. I have no idea for my kids
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Reading thru the responses, this was what I was about to ask. What direction do you steer kids these days? My kids will be entering high-school in the coming years. It's time to start thinking about things.

So far it seems ai is helping people write better letters (more grammatically correct), draw, and draft. It seems it can quickly gather information from multiple sources. Although the info can be incorrect at times.
 
Since I am retired what concerns me is how AI is going to affect my retirement account. You could argue that all the unemployment could crash the market but you could also assume that since every business will improve then the market will roar. Anyone read or researched how the market will be affected in the next ten years because of the changes by AI?
 
KY wild said:
Since I am retired what concerns me is how AI is going to affect my retirement account. You could argue that all the unemployment could crash the market but you could also assume that since every business will improve then the market will roar. Anyone read or researched how the market will be affected in the next ten years because of the changes by AI?
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Yes. Trump told us it will double shortly. Place your bets.
 
KY wild said:
Since I am retired what concerns me is how AI is going to affect my retirement account. You could argue that all the unemployment could crash the market but you could also assume that since every business will improve then the market will roar. Anyone read or researched how the market will be affected in the next ten years because of the changes by AI?
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I have no idea how businesses laying off people due to efficiencies from ai (which is just in its infancy and will start compounding exponentially) will ever improve the economy. Unless there is some unforeseen new sectors that emerge from all this I could see a depression and chaos more likely than a positive. Who cares how efficient your business is if you have no customers.
 
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I have zero idea what to think about a computer that can compute, draw things, write things, create on screen images, etc. faster than any human. Not bothered by that.

But when that thing figures out how to create and build robots…. That can fix the power grid and mine the fuel needed to sustain the power grid, It’s on. And we are the underdog.

Where’s that Conner lady when you need her. No joke!
 
I thought we’d have affordable personal aircraft by now, just like we had ATV’s decades ago. Why do I not have my own Honda helicopter to automatically deliver me to my cabin while I nap or watch a movie?

No, instead, to advance all these causes, we’re going backwards. The savviest among us are brining back centuries old technology and nutrition to undo a century of bullshit science.


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Guy on the radio yesterday recognized how everyone is nervous about change. He said something to the affect of while everyone is worried that their piece of the pie will get smaller, the pie will be a lot bigger.

He did seem to think it was going to change everything.

BTW, last year about this time he predicted Dow would be 50,000 by the end of the year. Missed by a little over a month, lol. 57,000 was his prediction for this year. He usually predicts the S&P but for some reason did the Dow starting last year.
 
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Was reading a doom and gloom piece yesterday about the effects of AI on labor and lately the market has been selling off on the idea that ai is going to replace a lot more workers than ever imagined. Elon has mentioned needing a universal income because there will be no need for employment. But…so far are you seeing ai provide many tangible benefits to your occupation/life. I’m not saying it won’t by any means but so far I’ve seen zero, granted I’m not in a tech heavy field. Outside of making some annoying YouTube videos or telling me why me pee smells like asparagus after I eat it, it’s world and mine haven’t crossed paths.
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AI will probably be a net positive for our economy. It's just technology. We can use it for good or evil. If we use AI to make workers more productive, great. If we use AI to let the government spy on our private lives, not so great.

The economic implications are mostly positive. The social implications seem dangerous. The same can be said for any technological milestone: electricity, internet, nuclear fission, printing press, etc. Think of YouTube. Do you use it to learn new skills, or do you use it to spread hate and misinformation?

Technology is inherently neutral. What matters is how we, as a society, choose to use it.
 
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I thought we’d have affordable personal aircraft by now, just like we had ATV’s decades ago. Why do I not have my own Honda helicopter to automatically deliver me to my cabin while I nap or watch a movie?
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My neighbor has a helicopter. I don't have one because I can't afford one. Some day I would like to have a float plane so I can explore the untouched wilderness of Northern Canada. I have 4 pilots in my family, but they all got priced out of personal aircraft.

AI driven automobiles and aircraft are even more expensive. You can have it if you're willing and able to pay for it.
 
Elon is most likely correct white collar jobs will go the way of the dinosaurs first and as robotics advances blue collar jobs will also disappear. The government will likely have to hand out a stipend of some sort to the masses the middle class will mostly disappear completely and there will only be the very wealthy and the rest of us poor folks. I really don’t know what to have my kids go to collage for at this point shit will be changing very quickly moving forward. Buy all the real estate you can be that farm ground or houses people will still need to eat and a place to live. The future of large corporations owning all the real property may very well come to fruition.
 
I am amidst a employer change but will say this revealing some things most people dont know.....

AI is bad news. AI is already running aspects of the utility grid. Yes- think about that. Foreign made tech and programming too.

Rapture, revelations, idk.....but for forum that talks about the importance of fire breaks and backburns we just gave some unknown teens a drip torch and asked them to burn a field on windy day with no further instruction.

Also remember that we finally are all buying into the news being lies and someone needs to make a decision with the autonomous driving car on whether to save the passenger or the pedestrian in a one dies situation
 
Where I work, at an electric switchgear manufacturer, we have about 350 employees. About 60 of them are electrical or mechanical engineers. The number of engineering changes that are needed mid construction astounds me. So apparently our company hasn't figured out how to use AI to diagnose potential problems in their designs yet. At our last quarterly meeting the CEO announced the hiring of an AI analyst, so we'll see where that leads.

I used AI for my last yearly review. Our review process is one where the supervisor gives you a couple pages of essay questions where I'm supposed to put down what my accomplishments were in the last year, what I'm looking to achieve in the next one, etc.. I put some keywords into Microsoft Copilot and had it flesh them out into statements that sound smarter than what I really am. Lol

And I use the Google search AI to create the descriptions we use for dahlia varieties on our website. It just searches all of the other descriptions it finds for each variety, and gives me a consensus.

Shopify has it's own AI that helps me with some of the website functions. I just used it to calculate our state sales tax data that I needed for filing taxes.
 
The Shumer article is spot on. I’ve experienced it 100%. Just last week, I (a non-programmer) built a custom web app for our conference in Nashville in under 3 hours. dmc2026.app

We are a small company ( less than $2M) and the operational efficiencies we’ve gained in the past 6 months, we’re projecting to save $500k in 2026.
We’ve adopted a ‘human-first, AI empowered’ posture. (Lots to expound on what we mean by this).

I’m encouraging my kids to give career choice priority to entrepreneurship—identifying needs and using AI to solve those needs. And/or roles with a human touch, both emotional and dexterity. Trades, working with hands, farming, nursing, clergy, property management, etc. And to expect that you may have to learn multiple roles in a lifetime to keep ahead of the curve. (I have lots of thoughts on this, too).

Technology is not neutral—it shapes us, just like we use it to shape the world.

AI will impact every industry. No exception. Just like the Internet has.

Last month I gave a 3 week class at our church on ‘Thinking Biblically about AI’. To say that it made quite a stir would be an understatement.

Yes, AI is here to stay. And it poses many risks—both existential and practical. But it will also provide some incredible opportunities.


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I’m also an engineer and for me AI has been a plus so far. Not a huge plus, but more good than bad. Being a greybeard, I certainly don’t use it like my younger colleagues but I’m trying. I figure if I at least get to know it a little, Grok might let me live a little longer when the machines rise up. One more bow season?

Seriously, for what I do I just don’t see a machine taking my place soon enough to affect me much unless it crashes the market. But if I was 20 right now I’d be training in a hard skill, starting a business, and planning for ai to be my accounting, HR, planning, and customer service manager. Or I’d be working for an AI company on the ground floor.
 
Talking to one of my car dealers, he said he is going to use ai to answer the phone and handle the entire conversation. You will think you are talking to a person but you won’t be.
 
I can’t begin to summarize this but “how AI is transforming healthcare” is a start. Each little segment is something interesting. AI is probably already better at predicting who will need a stint than a cardiologist is. The info to do this probably already is recorded in Epic/MyChart, an old bat ons Epic and won’t cooperate with this kind of analysis…. At least thats what I remember about it and my memory sucks, lol.

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661. Can A.I. Save Your Life?

Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 01/30/2026 · 1h 1m
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