AI

[Turkish]

40 minutes ago, whelk said:

Yeah theres the will kill us argument but on the plus side the data analysis agents are superb freeing me up to do much more edifying things like browsing Saintsweb 

We're all going to be unemployed thanks to AI soon anyway so might as well get used to it

[trousers]

Never did I imagine the worst consequence of AI is every single f***king local event having the same f***ing style promotion poster.... Does my f***ing head in....

[egg]

The little feature on Chat GPT to turn pics into authentic 80's style pics is brilliant though. Not sure it's worth killing us off for though. 

[badgerx16]

Don't worry, somebody will reboot The Matrix and humanity will start all over again.

[whelk]

Anyone manage to get a girlfriend yet?

[badgerx16]

Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders will be taking the same platform at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington DC, dscussing how to control and direct the develoment of AI.

[Farmer Saint]

26 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders will be taking the same platform at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington DC, dscussing how to control and direct the develoment of AI.

Wow, that's something.

[badgerx16]

 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Got the premium version at work now. Barely touched the surface of what it can do in my role and it's helping already.

[bpsaint]

On 07/08/2026 at 22:14, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Yeah, AI it's probably going to cause significantly more harm than good to humanity in the coming years. Viruses. Hacks. Cyber attacks. Pushing misinformation. Deep fakes. Power failures. Water shortages. Environmental harm. Making people redundant.

Mental that it's being pushed so hard. Money talks, I guess. Makes it slightly easier to set up at template for an Excel spreadsheet or create a meme though, I guess.

Not a great day for those worried about AI. First the PHP security flaw originally discovered by AI, and then subsequently exposed by hackers using AI.

Then the announcement of 5000 jobs going at Barclays due to AI. I know all companies want to save money, but when just one company cuts that many roles it’s only a matter of time until the rest follow suit. 
 

Can’t even begin to imagine what the future career opportunities for our children look like the longer this carries on an AI gets smarter.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

9 hours ago, bpsaint said:

Not a great day for those worried about AI. First the PHP security flaw originally discovered by AI, and then subsequently exposed by hackers using AI.

Then the announcement of 5000 jobs going at Barclays due to AI. I know all companies want to save money, but when just one company cuts that many roles it’s only a matter of time until the rest follow suit. 
 

Can’t even begin to imagine what the future career opportunities for our children look like the longer this carries on an AI gets smarter.

Particularly like that Barclays described it as the 'Icing on the cake' for their growth strategy. Lovely and compassionate towards the 5000 being made redundant.

[badgerx16]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crz981p0klvgo

 

"Just Eat has apologised after it was ridiculed online over a series of mistakes with AI-generated pictures for some of its restaurants' food items.

The online food delivery platform had been testing out the tech to showcase food which didn't have images yet - but not all turned out as planned.

Instead the AI invented several bizarre concoctions, from bacon and eggs floating in a glass of cola - a confusion between "soda" and "soda bread" - to chips poking out of muffins."

Edited October 23 by badgerx16

[Doctoroncall]

22 hours ago, bpsaint said:

Not a great day for those worried about AI. First the PHP security flaw originally discovered by AI, and then subsequently exposed by hackers using AI.

Then the announcement of 5000 jobs going at Barclays due to AI. I know all companies want to save money, but when just one company cuts that many roles it’s only a matter of time until the rest follow suit. 
 

Can’t even begin to imagine what the future career opportunities for our children look like the longer this carries on an AI gets smarter.

Yep, if you have experience, you’ll generally be ok, either by a sensible company recognising you can increase output with AI helping out or by a company letting you go and having to call you back due to excessive cut backs as management don’t understand AI and what it can do or only keeps the inexperienced person who uses AI to multiply the error. The latter I’ve seen!

The issue for youngsters is building up the experience. 

[Turkish]

I can’t say which one but a UK hospital was cyber breached recently by an AI hack. A venerability was announced and the breach took just 8 minutes to happen. That is insane 

[Turkish]

23 hours ago, bpsaint said:

Not a great day for those worried about AI. First the PHP security flaw originally discovered by AI, and then subsequently exposed by hackers using AI.

Then the announcement of 5000 jobs going at Barclays due to AI. I know all companies want to save money, but when just one company cuts that many roles it’s only a matter of time until the rest follow suit. 
 

Can’t even begin to imagine what the future career opportunities for our children look like the longer this carries on an AI gets smarter.

The problem is these companies think they’re saving money but AI is fucking expensive. Uber spent all their annual AI budget by the third month of the year, so when they’re investigating potential security breaches they are being hit with huge bills which they haven’t budgeted for. AI is only going to get more advised but it also need to remember there are various levels, a chat bot and copilot still need humans to guide it, a fully agentic AI solution is on a token based model which means it can and does suddenly become very expensive. AI is here to stay but I can see it going the way of cloud where it was all the rage for a couple of years then companies realised how expensive it was, the security risk and many other factors so brought a lot of stuff back on prem. in my game (cyber security) you need AI to fight and discover the AI cyber attacks but still need human management and intervention. So whilst I expect the shitty admin jobs might be impacted anyone with skills shouldn’t have too much to worry about 

[Farmer Saint]

So, today I have just resigned from my second non-Exec job in 6 months thanks to board recommendations for mass redundancies due to the role of AI within FTSE businesses. As I am advising on IT strategy I cannot support this, so have had to tender my resignation.

This is an incredibly serious issue, and it will affect anyone and everyone of working age that is not in a trade. Coordinated Government intervention is needed, otherwise we will see further growth in the welfare state as roles are removed in favour of Agentic AI. Companies need to be limited as to how many roles can be shed in favour of AI.

[badgerx16]

Yesterday at our daughter's house ;

Mrs B....."Alexa, how many 'Manchesters' are there in the US ?"

Alexa..."Based on the listings I can examine, there are no shows on in Pemberton".

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

So, today I have just resigned from my second non-Exec job in 6 months thanks to board recommendations for mass redundancies due to the role of AI within FTSE businesses. As I am advising on IT strategy I cannot support this, so have had to tender my resignation.

This is an incredibly serious issue, and it will affect anyone and everyone of working age that is not in a trade. Coordinated Government intervention is needed, otherwise we will see further growth in the welfare state as roles are removed in favour of Agentic AI. Companies need to be limited as to how many roles can be shed in favour of AI.

Good on you for doing that. Difficult one. Cyber security is my area and the threats from AI are growing by the day, you need AI to fight AI as human intervention simply ain’t quick enough. Security operations centres were overwhelmed if things carry on as they are then god knows what it’ll be like in 6 months let alone 1 year. More supermarkets hacked in Europe this week fridges set to melt all the produce in there, then there is knock on effect to the consumer which will only see prices hiked due to it. 
 

do agree though that if governments don’t intervene then it’s going to effect hundreds of thousands if not millions of workers. 

[Farmer Saint]

46 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Good on you for doing that. Difficult one. Cyber security is my area and the threats from AI are growing by the day, you need AI to fight AI as human intervention simply ain’t quick enough. Security operations centres were overwhelmed if things carry on as they are then god knows what it’ll be like in 6 months let alone 1 year. More supermarkets hacked in Europe this week fridges set to melt all the produce in there, then there is knock on effect to the consumer which will only see prices hiked due to it. 
 

do agree though that if governments don’t intervene then it’s going to effect hundreds of thousands if not millions of workers. 

I'm lucky I'm as much as I don't do it for financial gain, so I can play champagne socialist as and when I choose. However, I truly believe in this cause - millions of jobs will be affected.

[trousers]

When I got my first IT job, fresh out of school in 1986, I was told by my employer (paraphrasing): "Computers are going to take over everything and therefore people won't need to work as long as they do now and everyone will have more leisure time as a result... You'll be retired before you're 50... Utopia!"

Well, here I am, aged 58 and still grinding away (still in the IT industry I hasten to add).

Maybe the advent of "AI" (aka 'more powerful computers') will finally make that 40 year old prediction / vision of the future come true...? 

Edited 3 hours ago by trousers