I'm from an older school of thought. These #OregonState STEM ids are my competitors. They want to push a button and have the software do all of the work. There is a wise saying that goes "Nothing comes for free." Socialist mavericks, all of the corporate dweebs stealing all of our oxygen, and everybody else on this small planet is arguing about the impacts of AI everyday in their own ways. The corporate world's implementation and understanding of AI is exactly why I personally got off the career track. Adopting AI *in the ways in which they say they're going to adopt that technology* are unwinnable arguments to me. Most of what corporate society wants from AI does not have much to do with the internals of AI itself — it's the people in charge of promulgating AI who are lousing up everything. Hypothetically, when we have it all together on a regional basis — some prick in a business suit comes in with Series A or B funding and out goes all or most of the original plans. Our good work is replaced with hype, centralized marketing, and quite literally nothing doing — except for the 1% of very wealth folks skimming from the top of our Golden Calf since the works are publicly traded and half to death, too. They used to make fun of us: "How do you make money with Open Source if you don't charge money for it?" My Republican Dad used to ask me this a lot and it truly pissed me off.There is no future for an Open Source Developer in the USA as I understand how technology and economics operate in this so-called modern age of miracles and half-baked ideas that are never put into action. That's my Gen X view. I pray that I'm wrong and that the youths and Gen Z find better ways to engage the commons.Every time some billionaire funds AI so that it can be used in improper ways — either as a business incubator or as an #economic salve we are actually creating more monopolies and not more virtual storefronts. You do know that Google's app platform and Apple's are genuine monopolies. The hardware isn't monopolized however the software is about as close to a total shoo-in, or lock-in, or a clinched, monopolized deal breaker kind of arrangement to the point where both of these huge companies often exclude third parties from their software ecosystems. This has unfortunately become the norm for the world and the USA in particular which has always been "soft" towards the Microsoft Corporation..Most people do not really "get" this at all. Most people actually don't care. I'm through caring. That's why I picked my career in #journalism as an older student; a course of action which I tried to start before that my Dad made sure to sabotage with his influence, etc. because he personally loathed academia and especially people who wrote critical news stories about Presdient George W. Bush during the early 2000's." University students with traits coveted in STEM fields are also the ones most prone to relying on artificial intelligence to the detriment of their cognitive skills, according to a new study by scientists at Oregon State University.Researchers in OSU’s colleges of Engineering and Liberal Arts offer suggestions for breaking what they call “the self-reinforcing cognitive debt cycle” stemming from routine AI dependence.The study led by computer science graduate student Rudrajit “Rudy” Choudhuri indicates that without corrective action by educators and AI designers, thinking skills will steadily decline amid an illusion of increased efficiency.“Our findings make you rethink what kind of AI literacy is useful after all,” he said... "https://archive.is/CCw3R#selection-2863.0-2897.86