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From the start I thought 1) it should just be called autonomous software 2) if not let’s abbreviate it Ai so it’s not confused with my friend Albert 3) is it really a good idea to distill all human thoughts & ideas into an instantaneous impulse? Humans? 4) if you’re lonely call up an old friend

Opinions I've encountered suggest the opposite, if anything - those most likely to be *for* AI are the ones who don't understand it much beyond the PR hype.

Anti-democracy transhumanist lunatics.

I put as much thought into my response as you put into your original reply. Just completely missed the entire point.

It seems to be something of a running theme with the techbro crowd. Anyone suspicious of crypto or NFTs, for example, got a similar response. Of course, the difference here is that big corpos and investors have put their whole ass into the genAI thing for some reason.

Seems to be the point to continue putting people off from using it so they can have a monopoly on the matter.

Reading this reminds me of my wife comments re endless dumming down - she teaches in a school (UK) she says that students can't read an analogue clock any more, it has to be digital Same with old fashioned map reading

I read tech bros—who I suspect aren't programmers—bragging about how many agents they have building stuff 24/7, but they never say what they are building. I haven't heard of a single program released into the wild that was built this way.

One thing it helped with was buying an insurance policy but even then I had to upload the individual sbc's (insurance specs), when AI ought to be able to access the internet at least as well as me. I asked it to compare on a few terms and that saved me a lot of boring reading. ONE THING.

Very reminiscent of crypto and NFTs: “You just don’t get it.” “Enjoy staying poor!” “In ten years time, it will be everywhere!”

It's also so silly warching all these supposed grown ups coming up with arguments why their particular niche will not be replaced by AI while acrively working on replacing someone else's (while another someone is working on replacing THEIR niche).

This was a common argument for NFTs as well. Just makes me believe AIbros are just NFTbros moving on to the next grift.

Also that literally all AI promo is Homelander memes.

Add to that how the US is quickly turning into a global pariah.

But AI cannot fail...it can only be failed.

Also if they were actually right and it will magically stay cheap and can magically do all their work for them, doesn't that mean they're just training their own replacements? Oh wait, these are probably professional meeting-attenders rather than people who do things. That makes a little more sense

My other thing is, they've had a few years to refine this stuff now, and they keep talking about all the amazing productivity gains they're making with it and blah blah blah, and all of that has led to... what, exactly? A Coca-Cola commercial? Where the fuck are the emperor's pants

Interesting to contrast corporate resistance to unionisation and collective bargaining on wages terms and conditions that might push up labour costs with willingness to become dependent on monopoly AI labour supplier.

Exactly, they HAVE to. When I was responsible for selling LLM solutions nothing I did could show us coming close to covering even half our costs. Given that it’s a scam every megacorp is now dumping its entire future into, it’s one million percent going to be the public socializing this loss too.

Truest thing I've read today.

would you be less or more angry if you accepted that they were simply lying?

yeah all of these were exciting and cool to try out in a way that AI never was

Not kidding, the first one I spotted was a Tax Court case that a layman could literally make a deadly mistake with. The anti-bullying one was indeed a real thing that happened and could be easily disproved with a simple FUNCTIONING Google search and no legal knowledge. The domains were SO far off💀

Not sure if anyone's been fired yet, but at least one case had a motion thrown out, and one federal judge in Alabama disqualified the lawyers from their own case (Johnson v. Dunn; the firm was allowed to continue).

They are intellectual property theft, sexual abuse, moron making machines. Fuck that. Or to quote a great 🇨🇦 philosopher “fuck you Oskar”.

I have friends that will confidently tell me incorrect bullshit all day long for free, and at a fraction of the cost in energy and water.

I mean I went to grad school for machine learning and like, things have changed since Markov chains If you’re basing your understanding on that I mean no condescension but I don’t think “I understand this best” is a safety blanket you wanna wrap all the way around your brain

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Hear hear!

I am being forced to implement my first feature using it and goddamn I hate it. the specific feature isn't horrible really (deciding categories for products because merchants really want to use the goofiest ones) but I just feel dirty anyway

Also, if you actually understand it, you're fully aware that it *does not and cannot* do what AI boosters claim it does.

FOR REAL

Furthermore it has been proven multiple times it is the inverse. The more people understand how LLMs like ChatGPT works, the less they wanna use it.

It's interesting because as soon as you want to cancel a service with Roger's. They put you right through to a human. Specialist to talk you into not canceling. AI is good enough except when it's definitely not the tool to use. Human interaction is really the only thing that works. For humans.

this is why I keep hammering that it's just the same guys as NFTs. exactly like how that was the future, we understand it and you don't, and stop complaining because progress is happening and we don't need permission, but it's just money guys? oh yeah.

Same exact people that were so smug about NFTs

Yeah, lol, I know *exactly* what it is... that's why I'm not touching it. I've been told by people who know an awful lot more than online aibros with something to sell you all about the 'magic' fuzzy logic tech, what it really is, and all about what's behind the curtain. No thank you.

I’m always going to be upfront about how unimpressed I am with their lack of effort. There’s really no argument around it. “You haven’t created anything new” is the end of it. I’ll have no problem standing to AI chuds in my future.

lol same here with crypto n ai just another way to fleece the fomo crowd

SERIOUSLY

"Everything is a subscription now" is a VERY common complaint. GenAI is just the next step in that business model.

I'm a data scientist, and I hate LLMs specifically because I understand them.

It feels like they are very good at very specific tasks, which gives people who do those tasks aggressive confidence that it can do a bunch of things it isn't very good at.

My sentiments as well. We need to leave certain areas of our humanity alone. The random expressions of human written artistic endeavors are no venue for arithmetic algorithms. In my opinion of course.