One of those webinars

Don’t worry, it was fully optional. I assisted to a webinar about “the potential of AI” in the workplace, and you can already guess what sort of conference I had to go through yesterday. I shared a livestream of my thoughts on my Polymaths’ profile in case you want to see my reactons to what was said there, it’s hilarious stuff. Something I didn’t mention on that thread was a little quizz at the start, where people filled out polls and the like, and one of the pages was actually a word cloud, they asked “what words come to mind when you think about AI?”. Of course, I typed a few: “Wasteful”, “lazy”, “slop”, “unethical”… there was no limit I found to how many I could add, but I stopped with those. They didn’t even show up in the word cloud. “Useful”, “automation”, “future”, “tool”, “assistant”. Each word got bigger as more and more people typed them in real time. This wasn’t a multiple choice question, they were chosen and submitted by many. It is unfortunate, and undeniable, how many…