The Scary AI Post

[F6Dave]

Here's the AI post on X that's getting global coverage and even rattled the stock market:

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403?s=20

It's definitely worth reading. Here's a brief excerpt:

In 2022, AI couldn't do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.

By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.

By 2024, it could write working software and explain graduate-level science.

By late 2025, some of the best engineers in the world said they had handed over most of their coding work to AI.

On February 5th, 2026, new models arrived that made everything before them feel like a different era.

If you haven't tried AI in the last few months, what exists today would be unrecognizable to you.

[GiG]

Here's the AI post on X that's getting global coverage and even rattled the stock market:

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403?s=20

It's definitely worth reading. Here's a brief excerpt:

In 2022, AI couldn't do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.

By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.







By 2024, it could write working software and explain graduate-level science.

By late 2025, some of the best engineers in the world said they had handed over most of their coding work to AI.

On February 5th, 2026, new models arrived that made everything before them feel like a different era.

If you haven't tried AI today would be unrecognizable to you.

 

No “Best Engineer” ever exerts 1% effort to entry level coding easily handled by AI…. 



Link is a joke  

[Jersey mike]

Whatever AI is becoming or whatever may become of AI and how AI will be used across all platforms, industries and forms of business is getting pretty big.

The nefarious possibilities of its usage are there and need to kept in check. On the flip side of that the endless possibilities of using AI for well intentioned and good purposes should be considered as a positive thing.

The man who wrote the article went on to describe the use of AI in the legal world and while it seems AI can be accurate, I have to say for myself how can you really trust the outcome of an AI prepared contract or legal document or defense.

Just because AI may be “proving itself” now, short term reviews snd quality of product needs further analysis and evaluation.

I’m not at a point where I could just throw all my trust into something conjured up on AI and I believe that anything developed or designed by AI MUST have some kind of legal disclaimer stipulating that AI was used or was fully developed through AI tools.

If I go to an attorney for a real estate contract and that lawyer decides to use AI to draft that contract it should be some the client knows up front before signing that contract.


Added on;

The article the man wrote also went on to say how AI is being utilized is the medical profession to review and diagnose test results and that is quite a scary situation imo.

[Oss]

Contracts on real estate use what is called
"boilerplate"  and then the lawyer drafts a rider

I have many riders that I have developed for use for various types of deals over the last 4 plus decades.
Some paragraphs I freely admit I borrowed from other lawyers. I know many lawyers who use my product  No issues there

The advantage of the boilerplate part is at the top of page 1 it states it is the approved by the bar assn so you know what is in it (assuming you have read it a few hundred times)

When I get a contract without that wording at the top the fee goes up as I have to tell the client I have to read it looking for the nasty stuff and that could (especially with 70 page leases) take several hours to dicipher

AI scares me just like EZPAss scared me.  I knew it would put hundreds of people out of work and be one more way that we could be tracked

It seems so many inventions will take jobs on the pretext of making life simpler

Well driving thru Chicago on 80-90 I appreciated EZPass, but then again, did they need toll plazas every 4 miles in the first place?

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

[F6Dave]

I've been a software developer for over 40 years and seen lots of change. When I started my career with Texaco (then later Chevron) we wrote code on punch cards and ran it on IBM 370s. I later moved on to be an independent consultant and write software for over a dozen companies, using a wide variety of software as it rapidly evolved. I'm now semi-retired but in the last few years had two large projects using state of the art platforms and tools. So when AI began grabbing headlines I assumed it was just another step in the evolution that's made my career so interesting.

Until last year, when friends and former co-workers began telling me how AI (mostly ChatGPT) had been changing not only their work, but their personal lives as well. Just last week a friend in the construction industry (custom pre-fab components) described how they've recently redesigned their workflow around AI. And a former co-worker told me how he just implemented AI to thoroughly screen applicants for his company.

But the impact on our personal lives is at least as significant. A friend who's several year older than me explained how he uploads all his medical test results to his ChatGPT account for analysis. His doctor writes him a quick, annual summary of what blood measurements he needs to improve. But Chat gives him an 'organ-by-organ, multi-page analysis of how each body part is doing, and how some lifestyle changes would affect each.  Also, Chat's analysis has allowed me to avoid some painful and unnecessary biopsies!'

While you might nit-pick some of Matt Shumer's X post, he's absolutely right that most people have no idea how significantly AI is about to change our lives.

[0leman]

Back in the 80's when the gov was starting to get us computers, we were using boiler plate paragraphs in our contracts.  WE would indicate which ones went were and the clerical support would put them in the contracts.  Sure, cut down on rewriting them.  When we go access to  MS Word it went faster for us.  Yeah, we were the AI back then.  Now it seems that we would tell AI what we want and it would put it together for us.

I did learn to code a bit.  Small programs of less than 2 K lines.  It took a bit to learn but did it.  Now from what I am reading, the average guy could tell AI what the input would be and what is expected as a result.  I would definitely run the program to see if the results would be as expected, check for errors.

Funny then I remember was a certain President telling the coal miners laid off to learn to code.

[Jersey mike]

I’d like to clarify something, I wasn’t picking on, trying to demean or disparage/disrespect the legal profession, I just chose attorneys as a profession we all probably had some experience with along the way and used real estate as an example because it could be the most common type of reason for hiring an attorney for a contract.

Oss, thanks for the reminder on the term “boilerplate”. When I was writing my initial post I knew it but just could not remember the term. I hope everyone understood the point I was trying to make regarding the usage of AI and how it should not be labeled as someone’s own work. At this point in time I believe it’s important for a client to know if AI has been put to use in certain areas and situations.

Maybe down the road (or maybe it’s being developed) there we’ll be an *AI Legal Assistant Platform” or an “AI Medical Assistant Platform” that would be utilized across those professions. I have to wonder in the legal world, has every law book ever written, every USSC decision along with opinions and dissents and ever single court case and precedent (along with stuff I don’t know about or overlooked) ever been set been loaded into the AI universe. Has every opinion and historical content from the founders of our nation been uploaded in the AI universe such as Federalist Papers.

The same may go for contractors and general contractors or virtually any other sector of business. I’d like to see AI used as a tool to help and create instead of being the creator and leader of intellectual supremacy.

[F6Dave]

The same may go for contractors and general contractors or virtually any other sector of business. I’d like to see AI used as a tool to help and create instead of being the creator and leader of intellectual supremacy.

My friend in construction said his company uses ChatGPT to take minutes at meetings. Not only does it create a detailed summary of everything they cover, it creates a list of action items for the attendees. This is a good example of AI handling tasks few people enjoy.

[F6Dave]

I read that Claude was used in the planning and execution of the military operation in Venezuela last month. Claude is a major competitor of ChatGPT. This is an endorsement of the capability and security of these systems.

[Serk]

May you live in interesting times.

I envy those of you that have already made it across the goal line to retirement.

I suspect things are going to get VERY interesting in the next 1-5 years for us knowledge workers.

Do I think AI can do everything I do? Nope.

Do I think C-level executives will TRY to make AI do everything I do?

Yup. All day long and twice on Sunday.

Will make for an interesting societal discussion, if clankers replace 50%+ of the jobs, what will we, as a society do?

And those in the trades won't be exempt...  Combine advanced AI with humanoid robots and there goes the plumbers, auto mechanics, ditch diggers, etc as well...

Will we, as Elon Musk predicts advance to a post-scarcity society where people only work for hobbies and passion projects?

...interesting times indeed.

Just for a benchmark as to where we are, here's Dave Plummer (Retired Microsoft engineer) programming a replacement of Windows XP Notepad completely using AI...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmBd39OwvWg

[GiG]

May you live in interesting times.

I envy those of you that have already made it across the goal line to retirement.

I suspect things are going to get VERY interesting in the next 1-5 years for us knowledge workers.

Do I think AI can do everything I do? Nope.
 
Do I think C-level executives will TRY to make AI do everything I do?

Yup.

And those in the trades won't be exempt...  Combine advanced AI with humanoid robots and there goes the plumbers, auto mechanics, ditch diggers, etc as well...

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AI should be very close to accomplishing ditch digging now. BUT it will
NEVER replace MY JOB; Retirement!!!       

S’Cuse me please, almost time for the Early Bird! 

[GiG]

Best Job I Ever Kept   

[F6Dave]

May you live in interesting times.

I envy those of you that have already made it across the goal line to retirement.

I suspect things are going to get VERY interesting in the next 1-5 years for us knowledge workers.

Do I think AI can do everything I do? Nope.

Do I think C-level executives will TRY to make AI do everything I do?

Yup. All day long and twice on Sunday.

Will make for an interesting societal discussion, if clankers replace 50%+ of the jobs, what will we, as a society do?

And those in the trades won't be exempt...  Combine advanced AI with humanoid robots and there goes the plumbers, auto mechanics, ditch diggers, etc as well...

Will we, as Elon Musk predicts advance to a post-scarcity society where people only work for hobbies and passion projects?

...interesting times indeed.

Just for a benchmark as to where we are, here's Dave Plummer (Retired Microsoft engineer) programming a replacement of Windows XP Notepad completely using AI...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmBd39OwvWg

On a more positive note, technology was replacing jobs long before any of us were born. Trains and automobiles made horses a luxury rather than a necessity. Imagine how many jobs supporting the 'horse industry' were lost. Electric lighting and appliances had a similar effect.

It wasn't too long ago that 'pay at the pump' eliminated gas station attendants. And bank tellers have nearly disappeared due to ATMs and mobile/online banking.

Self checkout lanes have eliminated most checkers in grocery and big-box stores. However I've noticed many of those ex-checkers are now running around the store shopping for people who order groceries online.

One of the reasons aging rock stars who can no longer sing are still performing is that digital music cut into their royalties.

These are just a few examples, and I expect AI will end up creating opportunities we can't imagine. But like every time in the past, workers who understand the tech replacing their jobs will be best positioned to benefit.

[GiG]

Interesting about ex-checkers   

Musicians Must Perform Live - no money in
Record sales! But - royalties ARE paid digitally