I tried using AI. It scared me.

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It’s lowkey terrifying being in college trying to plan what I want to do not knowing the world I’m heading into

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” - Douglas Adams

I feel, like a 3d artist, that my days might be numbered. Companies wouldn't skip a beat if they could replace artists with an algorithm. I hope I'm wrong. I actually love what I do...

12:36 weird question... but do you listen to Weird Al? You listed the exact same music downloading websites and in the exact same order as Al Yankovic does in "Don't Download This Song".

It's weird that 10 years ago, people typing into Google "can you please tell me what the weather will be like this week thank you" was seen as weird and not appropriate, because why would you talk to your search engine? But reading the transcript of the conversation between Tom and ChatGPT, that's how it talks back to you...

"Tom Scott tries to predict the future, 2023, colorized." In a few years Tom should do a prediction compilation and see how many he got right.

You're not wrong. This is the beginning of a major shift. As a person with no coding skills, I was not able to get ChatGPT to come up with the correct code to make a very simple, but functional indicator for a program called MT4. It said it could code in the required language, but no luck. So, I think it takes a human with coding skills, to be able to evaluate the output and makes fixes as you did.

If nothing else, I love that this video is how I discovered that Gmail labels don't just work like folders.

I remember chatbots being a total joke. The last six months have been equal parts exciting, confusing, and disturbing.

When a Tom Scott video is longer than 6 minutes you know gets going to be deep.

I have this feeling that every time some new tech marvel arrives its just to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

I know Tom has Flown into the sunset, but i would find it very interesting to see a commentary video from Tom about Ai now a year later after this. Love this channel and everything about it

I remember Napster..... I worked there.

the fact that you can reason with the code and point out its errors and it will fix them is both fascinating and terrifying to me

At one point in my life, I would amaze people with the story of how the university computer I operated had switched over from cardboard punchcards to magnetic tape as a storage medium, because we were at the cutting edge of technology. Nowadays people are amazed by that story because I can remember that far back into the distant past....

you're a smart guy tom. if things change, you will change with them. something similar has happened to me a few times in my 72 years, and i was lucky/clever enough to jump ship, roll with the punches, or whatever cliche/metaphor you like, and find a new direction. not always easy, but the best things aren't. Courage mon frere😀

I know this wasn't the point you were making but in the back of my mind I kept thinking of the Douglas Adams quote: "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

I love Tom Scott's dedication to do a one take for each segment. It's very difficult for those who haven't done it before.

Going back 15 years I've speculated that the next step up from OOP would be coding in regular language.