44 Replies to “Interesting Times”

  3. Note to all young people looking to succeed in today’s world. Unless you have AI skills, you will be walked over by those who do. Like dullards who refused to learn computer skills 40 years ago.

    1. AI can’t swing a hammer, use a wrench, repair a car, install a truss, change a tire, repair a leaky pipe…
      AI will replace the laptop class, like “graphic design artists” and so on, and that ain’t a bad thing.

      2. Yes, call AI revenge of the blue collar workers. When we got laid off due to mill,mine, logging and factory closures, the white collar types sneered, “learn to code”.
        Now I don’t know what you computer wizard types will have to learn to do, work with your hands!? Gasp!

        But trades will always be needed, can’t replace them with AI.

      3. Advertising agencies will be laying off the majority of their drug-inspired creative types. Who will be screwed if they have a flat tire on the drive home.

    2. AI is the most over rated nonsense in 100 years.
      That ad sucked. So if you drive a Volvo green slime and what looks like poison ivy appears as you drive.
      Whatever. AI so far has not created anything useful.
      Best AI use yet -making fun of the Communist cackling dunce and Willie Brown’s bratwurst bun, whose ancestors were slave owners, running for president.
      https://apnews.com/article/parody-ad-ai-harris-musk-x-misleading-3a5df582f911a808d34f68b766aa3b8e

      It’s funny and true but it is nonsense just like the Volvo ad.

  4. Come on, man! AI is just a fancy search engine!
    It can’t make anything new!

  5. Impressive yet boring as hell. . Gone are the days of spending big bucks to float a Volkswagen in a pond and claiming Ted Kennedy would be President if he drove one on that fateful night.
    I miss those days.

    1. No, just advertising wonks.
      If your “job” is re-arranging pixels on a screen, when what can I say…learn a trade.

      1. Can you see one of these sissy types wielding a welding stick on a pipeline in minus 25 or snowshoeing through the bush to fall a tree on a logging show?
        I feel that popular German emotion right now,schaden-something.

      2. I’m not referring to the use of AI. I’m referring to the actual content of the ad which depicts a Volvo driving through a city, causing its destruction and return to a primeval state.

        1. ahhh.
          My mistake.
          I agree with you.
          A city would look like that after being de-populated for 1000 years or so.

  9. “Like dullards who refused to learn computer skills 40 years ago.”

    Y2K was a preview of reliance on skilled computers.

    1. Y2K was a nothing burger, one of the first tests of the fear agenda – False Events Appearing Real.

    1. Oh, give him a break. It hasn’t been easy for him with all those rock stars fighting against him.

  12. Looks like this place is populated by the laptop class, who are all gonna have to actually do some real work, for a change.
    Bwawawaaa!
    Oh, and while you are all whining about AI, some on the right are actually taking it seriously:
    https://tusksearch.com/

    2. [ shrug ]

      I’m a DevOps engineer. It’s a valuable and portable skill, and it can’t be done by AI because there are so few people who understand how to do it properly that there isn’t enough training material out there for AI to replicate it. It will eventually be completely automated, the same way network administration and desktop support was, and I’ll move on to something else. But as long as my job consists of compensating for developers deep in the Dunning-Kruger effect, I’ll always have work.

  14. Meh!
    The only thing this sells me is that graphic artists will soon be joining buggy whip makers in the dust bin of history.

    1. Yup.
      And all that money spent on them can go to things like, I dunno, making cars, and selling them cheaper because the advertising budget has dropped by 99.99%, perhaps?

  16. This is not AI. This is HI, Human Intelligence. Why would an artificial intelligence bother? This is just a Smart Human™ using S/W video tools well.

    AI IS BS

    1. Nah, Steve. It was probably made by some guy. If a woman had made the commercial, every building and high-rise she drove past would suddenly have nice curtains. ;o)

    1. Thought the same thing: replicants are using AI to sell stuff?

      Now, that said, I would totally love my own Joi and an Emanator.

  21. For Volvo’s sake, I hope it’s not running this ad in Canada. Seems it doesn’t quite meet muster with recently passed C-59. I don’t think I’ve seen a more obvious example of greenwashing. I mean, really, plants just don’t spring up after a vehicle drives by.

    1. Advertising misleads you. Wow, I had no idea I was going to say that. You’re good at this!

  23. What I’d like to see are movies using actors and actresses from the 1930s to the 1960s (still in their prime) acting with today’s actors and actresses (also AI’d) in decent movies without all the woke sh!t.

    1. Holographs.

      Apparently Elvis and Whitney Houston still perform in Vegas. KISS will be back to by 2027 too………..

  24. VOLVO – Chinese car. Geely of China owns 78.7% of VOLVO cars (Wikipedia).

    Want a “real” VOLVO, you have to buy a large truck, bus, or construction equipment.

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