Post by @RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip

2026-10-28 00:44 UTC

My trades friends don’t use AI, one of them doesn’t even know the names of any of the models. My wife first heard about LLMs this year. She’s never used one, she’s never seen anyone use one, she doesn’t know anyone who has used one. She’s an engineer. Lemmy leans way too heavily towards tech workers. There is a whole world of people that have literally nothing to do with our field and the trends inside it. They know nothing about it, they’ve no interest in engaging with it, it’s completely useless to them. My wife’s company recently adopted using Active Directory for managing users. EDIT: To take it a step further, I work adjacent to OEM manufacturers for industrial control systems. Half of our customers are running windows 98.

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@NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-28 04:54

One in eight people globally use an AI app, not just something that happens to include an ai feature like Google search, on a regular basis. There are definitely still going to be pockets totally not touching it, and that will probably continue for a long time, but its very much soaking into global society. datareportal.com/…/digital-2026-global-overview-r… ec.europa.eu/eurostat/…/index.php?title=Use_of_ar… www.microsoft.com/…/global-ai-diffusion-report/ None of that means you should be using it, just pointing out that your immediate social group may not be an accurate reflection of reality. Like as a counter anecdote - my gran has used it - and i feel like when old people get to a tech its approaching ubiquity, Facebook being the primary example I have in mind.

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