 This video is just my thoughts. I'm gonna say some things. They're probably gonna upset some people, but they're my thoughts. I have the right to say them, and I also have the right to be wrong and change my mind in the future. But I wanted to talk a little bit about AI, artificial intelligence. And since my channel is kind of tech-based, I mean software-based, but it's mainly about free software, right? And applications and even hardware occasionally. I feel like I should touch base on AI, right? It's something that exists. It's extremely popular right now. I have very little interest in it and have messed with it just a little bit. Almost none. I think it's gonna have some benefits. I think there's gonna be some negatives. That's true about almost all technology. A lot of people are freaking out that AI is gonna take their job, and maybe it will. But you know what? Technology has replaced people and their jobs since the creation of man. It just goes on like that. The world continues. If a machine replaces you, learn a new skill. Usually it doesn't happen overnight. Take self-driving cars. I shouldn't say self-driving cars. Autonomous cars, right? Autonomous cars exist. They're not going anywhere. And they are a better driver than you. Now I'm not talking about these ones that are partial. It's like basically assisted driving where you're still supposed to be in control. I'll talk about ones that are fully automated. There are four levels of automation when it comes to automated cars. And tier four, which are the ones that are completely self-driving, have no steering wheels. They are incredible, credible drivers with pretty much no problems as far as crashing. It's the ones where people are supposed to get involved and kind of take over. That's when issues happen. You might be saying, I'm a better driver than a automated car. First of all, you're not. But let's say you are. Let's say you are the best driver in the world and you're even better than these machines that have 360 vision and will always signal, never forget the signal, never tailgate, never run a red light. Let's say you're better than all of them. The problem is nobody else's. You're the only one. And no matter how good of a driver you are, everyone else sucks, right? That's how it works. So you're better off having these automated cars out there that are going to obey the laws and not have road rage. And even if you're the best driver in the world, everybody else is not. It's not a bad thing. It's a great thing. And it's happening, but it doesn't happen overnight. So you know, if you are in a job where you drive a vehicle, eventually those jobs are gonna be replaced by AI. It's been happening for 10 years now. It's gonna take longer. You need to prepare for the future. It's not gonna happen overnight, right? Let's talk about music, right? There's AI out there that supposedly creates music that people can't tell it was created by AI. I don't know if that's, was it created by AI? I mean, if I'm listening to techno music, how am I supposed to know whether it was created by a machine or a person? But here's the thing. Most music, like the big pop singers and the millionaires that are singers and musicians and bands, they make most of their money from teenagers, right? Cause when you're a teenager, the music you listen to means something to you. It's special to you. And the lyrics are touching, right? And the thing is, even if AI can make great sounding music I may wanna listen to, when you're a teenager, it's that connection. You feel a bond with the songwriter and the singer and stuff like that. And you're not gonna have that bond with AI. So even if AI makes great music I wanna listen to, especially teenagers who are emotional, they're gonna want to hear music that is created by people who write songs. Maybe not all of them, but majority of them are. And they may also listen to the AI stuff, but they're going to want to have that connection. So there's going to be songwriters around that create music. And that's another example of technology. People feel all worried. Oh, the internet's going to ruin the music industry. It's gonna, you know what? People pirate music all the time. You can listen to music on YouTube with ad blockers. And you know what? Musicians are still making millions and millions of dollars. Thing is, when a technology exists, it exists. Let's take, for example, chat GPT, right? Did I say that right? I haven't messed with it yet. Everyone talked about, so a month or two ago I went to the website and they wanted me to enter my phone number. There's no way I'm entering my phone number. My phone number is more secure to me than any of my credit card numbers. Cause it's a difficult thing to change where a credit card, someone steals your credit card number, you just get a new credit card number and update your information for your auto pays, right? My phone number I do not like giving up. Now I could make a burner phone number, but I really didn't care enough to even do that because AI, although I think it's interesting and again will be useful and harmful in some ways, I have very little interest in it because when it comes to computers, one of the things I love about computers is it does what you tell it to do and nothing more. I hate programs that aren't even AI but programs that try to when the programmer tries to guess what you want to happen. And they try to predict and Apple's a big, you know, they do that a lot. Windows does it as well where they try to guess what you're gonna want and they try to default to that instead of just doing what you tell it to do. And although that's convenient for some people sometimes, that's usually the problem when software has problems is because it's trying to guess what you want to do and what you want to happen. I don't like that. I like to tell a computer what to do and have it do it and nothing more. Now I'm not saying that AI isn't great. Like I think it's great that I can like ask AI to search through all my photos and find pictures of goats even though it will also return pictures of dogs sometimes. Battery on my camera died. So where was I? I was talking about like services like Google photos and stuff where you can upload photos and ask you to find pictures of cakes, pictures of goats or whatever and it finds them. That's great. You know, it could be some downsides of that, you know, like mass surveillance. But the problem is people are upset about this technology existing and the thing is it exists. There's nothing to do about it's like nuclear weapons. Maybe it's a bad thing that they exist but they do exist. There's nothing you can do about it. People are gonna be making them. It's you can't undo history, right? So this technology exists. It could be useful and I will use it. In fact, I've been using for my thumbnails on my videos. I've been putting, you know, little cutouts of myself and instead of manually doing that in GIMP there's a website I go to. I don't even know what it's called. I just Google AI remove background and I just upload an image and it returns a PNG with the background cutout. I think that's great, you know? But in general, I don't need AI for a lot of stuff and people are concerned about AI writing software. That's great and good in some ways. The thing is it's not gonna put people out of business because you know what, a lot of people who create video games and other applications they do it because they love it. I write music. I don't want you guys to know this. I have a channel of music I write and I write music because I like making it. And I upload it to this other YouTube channel so I don't bog down this channel with it. I'm not saying it's great but I enjoy making it so I post it so other people might enjoy it along with I have a GitLab page with all the project files for those. And same with video games. I make a lot of video games and I'm gonna start featuring them on my channel in hopes that people play them because I want people to play them but I make them because I enjoy them and my kids enjoy them and I can play them on my arcade and it's just fun. I enjoy making it so people are still gonna be writing software even if AI can write great games other people are gonna be creating games because they love them. And you know what? It's all a matter of opinion on what you like and some people like them. It's not the end of the world but it's not gonna stop people from writing programs because I write programs because I enjoy doing it. I recently watched the movie Tetris. Great, great movie. You should check it out if you haven't. But the original guy who wrote Tetris he wrote it because he liked it. He wanted to create it. And then he ported it and made it colored and then other people took it and then it got into this whole big thing but he originally created it because he wanted to create it. He wasn't looking to profit. He was in Russia in the 80s. He wasn't going to be able to profit. He wasn't going to be allowed to profit from it in a communist society. So he just did it because he loved it and it became the world's most popular game ever supposedly according to the movie. And I think that in part has to do because it came with the Game Boy and the Game Boy was so popular but it is a great game. Going back though AI is here. It's not going anywhere. It's going to be useful but people are going to still be creating stuff. But again, I'm not super interested in it. I'll play with it here and there but when it comes to the chat GPT I've heard so many conflicting things. I've watched videos of people playing with it where it just spits out garbage when it comes to like asking them programming questions but then I also know people who run their businesses and try to write their own scripts and they're kind of sort of programmers and they get a lot of information off it. So it seems like very basic stuff it's good at. The more advanced stuff it is you need to really lead along kind of know what you're looking for. I did watch one video where Guy had it write a game for it. I think it was using Phaser, the PhaserJS for games in the web browser using HTML and JavaScript. And the guy spent five hours and his goal was not to type any of the code but to have GPT write it. And that's what he did. And I think it took him five hours to create a very basic platformer and he had to guide it along the way and he did it without having to write any of the code himself and he had no coding experience or something like that. But the thing is five hours he could have read a couple of tutorials and done that himself and probably would have been better and learn something. The thing is people are people and they're going to do things because they love them. And you know what, if you're being replaced by AI it's not, again, it really doesn't happen overnight. You should see it coming. If you're a driver right now with the automated cars coming you should realize that in the future there's going to be a point where we're not gonna need people to drive trucks or taxis or Ubers but it's not gonna happen overnight and you need to start learning a new skill if that is your primary source of income. At the same time, right now, for a while I was like, why would anyone become a trucker? But I don't know about right now but like a year or two ago there was a shortage of truck drivers and so it may have been a good business to get into but long term, I don't think so. Who knows? But the thing is people think, oh, they're still working on automated vehicles which is true, they're still working on them but the thing is they already exist. It's just a matter of getting them out there and getting people to trust them. So yeah, I'm not gonna be doing any videos on AI anytime soon. I don't even play with it much but let me know in the comments below what you think about AI. Do you think it's a good thing, bad thing? Again, I think it's both. I think there's two sides to the blade or wherever the saying is. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening and I hope that you have a great day.