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What would the world be like if the internet died and what would your daily life be like without the internet?
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Maybe the dead internet theory is starting to become real after all...
What would the world be like if the internet died and what would your daily life be like without the internet?
They did this to themselves (and us). Also Copilot. They literally push us to use AI, whether we want it or not, and then complain. There was a scientific paper published (the one case I know of) that in its abstract it had the typical chatbot defensive statement that it doesn't have access to the most recent blah blah, the authors literally just gave the AI a task to write some summary on research on something. How much of that research is then genuine per se? It was on Elsevier if I am not mistaken, making rounds on social media recently. Writing this crap is one thing, but publishing it at this form? And you pay money to have access to the full content of many research papers. Or your institution does. For what now? A computer generates a paper, nobody reads it and it goes published and you pay, calling it peer reviewed... not even computer reviewed it that would eliminate this fiasco in the abstract.
Not sure what my life would be like without internet, I got too used to it. I do have hobbies, but in between I just like to sink into the armchair or into my bed and let the world entertain me. Also finding out answers on questions randomly popping up in my head... I don't even remember what the world was like without internet, duh!
Not sure what my life would be like without internet, I got too used to it. I do have hobbies, but in between I just like to sink into the armchair or into my bed and let the world entertain me. Also finding out answers on questions randomly popping up in my head... I don't even remember what the world was like without internet, duh!
Found it. Sometimes I really wish it was fake. But this one wasn't:
I was born before the internet. I know how to live without it. although much of the things I write would be useless. Many things would suffer including medicine. Always good for doctors to have access to information because they do not know it all.
Maybe we can just keep the good parts and get rid of the bad parts like scamming, phishing, and social media.
Maybe we can just keep the good parts and get rid of the bad parts like scamming, phishing, and social media.
And AI hallucinations... but how to get rid of them?
Even humans are capable of making up memories they never had with the right approach.
I, too, am much older than the internet. I did use networked computers before the web was worldwide. We'd dial into servers directly, and I had access to the networks because I was in university at the time.
I'd survive without the internet. It'd take a while to adjust, but I'd be okay. I like the immediacy, especially when it comes to accessing information. It wasn't that long ago when you could ask 'who sings this song' at a bar and nobody would know, or nobody would be certain. Today, you can flip open your phone to use an app that'll tell you based on a small sample of the music.
This is a tough one for me. Why? Because, depending on the definition you use, this very site could be classified as 'social media'. We can share pics, start threads in categories, post on profiles, and post private messages to one another. Quite a bit of our off-topic content is even social in nature.
But, I know what you are referring to. Social Media is shown to be bad for your mental health.
Cite: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7364393/
I'd survive without the internet. It'd take a while to adjust, but I'd be okay. I like the immediacy, especially when it comes to accessing information. It wasn't that long ago when you could ask 'who sings this song' at a bar and nobody would know, or nobody would be certain. Today, you can flip open your phone to use an app that'll tell you based on a small sample of the music.
This is a tough one for me. Why? Because, depending on the definition you use, this very site could be classified as 'social media'. We can share pics, start threads in categories, post on profiles, and post private messages to one another. Quite a bit of our off-topic content is even social in nature.
But, I know what you are referring to. Social Media is shown to be bad for your mental health.
Cite: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7364393/
AI hallucinations are the worst because people take the information as real and reliable. AI is not intelligence at all. It is just EWS Enhanced Web Search and should be renamed appropriately.
Re the research paper: started reading, they could to with some proof reading. Some sentences don't make sense:
"There is debated presently going on regarding the benefits and negative impacts of social media on mental health"
"Social media activity such as time spent to have a positive effect on the mental health domain."
"...females were much more likely to experience mental health than males " I think we all experience mental health of some sort LOL
"There is debated presently going on regarding the benefits and negative impacts of social media on mental health"
"Social media activity such as time spent to have a positive effect on the mental health domain."
"...females were much more likely to experience mental health than males " I think we all experience mental health of some sort LOL
Great, the AI is learning from the dumbest people on the internet and acting like them.
It is obvious they rushed it through. When I was writing my dissertation, I spent hours reading it over and over, tweaking sentences, making sure the material was consistent, used Word check and also uploaded in sections to Grammarly I think, just to not be caught out. My work was never published (I didn't know I could do that or even ask for it, being just undergraduate). But my tutor told me it was on the Masters' level back then.
The peer reviewing seems to be an illusion. Nobody really does it and if they do, asked to do it for free, they probably don't do it at all anyway. The modern academia is a hunt for sponsorship and funding, quantity of papers matter more than quality.
I predated the internet so my programming was always very tight and efficient. We could not afford to waste even 1k memory. Now they waste a GB and it is no big deal. I notice as I was graduating, they started degrees in MIS. which is Microsoft Information Systems. This means many people out there right now have a degree in Microsoft products. Not actual computer science. That should tell you most of what you need to know.
That reminds me, the Voyagers that left our Solar system had some 68kb memory on board, each.
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I studied journalism, but apart from an internship, I have never worked in this field; I also studied internet marketing.
Although these studies never led to a job, they taught me a lot:
Firstly (in few words), I realized how easy it is to manipulate and shape the ideas of the so-called masses, and with the advent of the internet I believe this has become much easier, even with the help of A.I.
Very often, not only on social media, but in all information in general, fear is used to influence and manipulate people's thoughts (wars, pandemics, disasters, climate change, etc.).
So I conclude that the internet is very useful, but it has many negative implications, as does AI.
If the internet were to die, it would certainly have a significant impact on me, but I would find other things to devote my time.
Although these studies never led to a job, they taught me a lot:
Firstly (in few words), I realized how easy it is to manipulate and shape the ideas of the so-called masses, and with the advent of the internet I believe this has become much easier, even with the help of A.I.
Very often, not only on social media, but in all information in general, fear is used to influence and manipulate people's thoughts (wars, pandemics, disasters, climate change, etc.).
So I conclude that the internet is very useful, but it has many negative implications, as does AI.
If the internet were to die, it would certainly have a significant impact on me, but I would find other things to devote my time.
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I find it self serving. a degree in a company's products is nothing more than a way to market and monopolize. If people are only taught how to use that company's products, then the competition dies quickly. Not sure about that? back in the day we had Lotus word processor, word perfect and PFS write. where are they shortly after the MIS degree that pushed MS word?
More a case of desperately trying to find someone that's daft enough to pay them to remain full-time in the world of abstract dreaming, as opposed to kicking their backsides good & hard & making them get a proper job.
Academia is for those that refuse to face, or deal with, the realities of life itself...
Mike.
I don't see it as such, unless this course led to disappearing of general computer sciences qualifications. And I don't see it happening anytime soon. Just those students on M$ specialisation are limiting themselves if they carry on with this specialisation only.
that is actually another downfall of that degree. I will say that when I went to college I learned a variety of OS platforms and even now, knowing various OS's makes me more valuable as I can switch between them and produce the best solution using the most relevent OS. Even if on occasion it is windoze.
But are you an expert in any of them?
people in the community feel I am an expert. Depending on your definition of expert I would say in linux yes, windoze yes, mac I am very good but not expert.
