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> No surprise here, same can be true of IT. I remember a time before PCs and most work was done on Mainframes and paper w/file cabinets.

I understand your point but it lacks accuracy in that mainframes, paper and filing cabinets are deterministic tools. AI is neither deterministic nor a tool.

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> AI is neither deterministic nor a tool

You keep repeating this in this thread, but as has been refuted elsewhere, this doesn't mean AI is not productive. A tool it definitely can be. Your handwriting is non deterministic, yet you could write reports with it.

Yes, but the one thing computers had going for them over humans was determinism, and we just threw that out the window.

We did not throw that out the window. AI is new capability on top of what the computer is already capable of

No, AI is a computer pretending (badly) to be human.

If AI isn’t either of those things, then what is it?

Unironically it's a form of occult divination. I know it sounds crazy but it really is the synthesis of humans' collective works combined with some dice rolls. I'm quite honestly surprised someone more superstitious than I am hasn't raised this point yet (that I've seen).

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