Of course, we saw it ourselves with the internet boom.

Now everyone has an smartphone with them 24/7 and uses it non-stop. Even people that once told it was stupid looking at a phone.

I swore to myself that I don't want to be one of these people who always stay in the past like everyone before me when they reached a certain age. So no, I won't just complain about everything called AI because I grew up without it and be part of that old generation not going with the time.

I also don't have to tell myself that we can stop it if we just boycott "AI games" because most people will just don't care as long as they like the game. The only stupid one would be me then. It might hurt the sales of some games the first years but in the end there's just nothing which will stop it and I rather use it as well then as to be one of those I always laughed about who never went with the time.

And if it will be really that horrible as some say then it will flop, I don't have to fuck my head with it before just because I rather like to live in the past.  

And did that improve life? Smart phone addiction, doom scrolling are huge problems. As well as people always stuck in their echo chambers thanks to having them with them 24/7, spoon fed by AI algorithms to be continuously outraged at others.

I don't have a smartphone btw, saw it coming, ditched it in 2009.

Internet and smartphones are extremely helpful.

You have a video camera always in your pocket.

You have access to any kind of music you could possibly want to hear anytime everywhere in your pocket.

You have GPS and real time info about traffic in your pocket.

You have more knowledge available in your pocket than a whole country has stored in libraries.

You can communicate with relatives and people all around the world in real time whenever you want, like I'm doing to you right now.

In my case here in Brazil, you can pay/transfer instantly anything, from business or your friends, without having a credit/debit card with just your smartphone with PIX.

You can find about events anywhere anytime with internet in your pocket.

You can find promotions online no physical store would ever give you, immediatly when they are available, I just ordered a game when a 20% coupoun was made available and handed to my phone immediatly because of a sharing app.

Again, technology is great, but can be used both well and not, it depends on how people use it.

And when does the bad outweigh the convenience (All stuff I do not need in my pocket)

Around 30% of people globally are at high risk of phone addiction, with 57% of Americans admitting to it. Users check their phones an average of 63–150 times daily, often leading to anxiety, with 71% sleeping next to their devices. Nearly 40% of consumers, including 60% of young adults, feel they use their phones too much.

NVM always being tracked, measured, data mined.

That's another problem entirely, multiple problems, actually.

We should never fear the tool, but how its used.

AI can speed up a lot of things, it's actually really impressive how mathematical models can turn into very credible language models and so much more. Science and tech should never be discarded because of fear, just controlled, if it can't be controlled the problem is much worse and is in the society, not the tool.

It's the same thing basically everything we ever developed, even the knife you have in your kitchen. Yet I'm glad we are not dropping knives.

Mr Mackey is Sony boss? Wow, didn't see that coming.

I mean, the printing press did definitely take away the jobs of many scribes. I say we go back to handwritten documents exclusively. /s

I hope you are not expecting copies to be made either, unless the author writes them himself one by one.

Jokes aside, there is legitimate reason to be cautious about AI. The AI push is already out of control and affecting the prices of things massively, not to say the damages to the environment too, but each thing needs to be tackled by what it is individually.

As in gaming itself, DLSS, FSR and PSSR are really good things we have around, it "evolving" to DLSS 5 is not, at least IMO, which doesn't mean we have to drop all of them because of it.

The amount of useful information in real books makes internet information look like trash. Wikipedia barely scratches the surface of many topics. For example, you can either read "Wars of the Roses," that is 512 pages of history detailing the English Civil Wars, or you can read the maybe 30-40 pages from Wikipedia, which lack a lot of context. Yeah, the internet has more information available, but that information is hard to find, and often low quality. For every one useful website with legitimate information, these days, there are thousands of pieces of disinformation out there. The internet doesn't give you knowledge as much as it gives you disinformation. 

The internet has everything, including the lies and garbage. Real books try their best to have truth.