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As an artist and designer. I despise the concept of AI.

What we have so far under the name Artificial Intelligence is just single purpose pattern matching software. No one is ever going to write the headline "Single use pattern matching software will destroy human civilization!

Thank you! Ai is either stupid or being used stupidly.

The best part is; nothing generated by AI can be copyright.

Maybe on the image or video side, but even there I've found ways to dance with it. but I've been structuring out a podcast season and working in Claude and perplexity to develop outlines and research and particularly with Claude,'it feels like having an assistant to talk and create with.

Aww man, I love AI. It’s like a race to the bottom it’s hilarious.

Circus last night. Contrast it with C.G.I films. It's the line between AI & Reality It's how you feel. Reality bites but it does not byte

Generative AI is what is being pushed, but we are seeing the results of ‘Garbage in = garbage out’ training

As the old saying goes, “it is difficult to recognize who is called the chump at any table at which a game of poker is being played. The person who is not recognizing the identity of the chump may have concerns that they will be taken advance of.”

The ability to take my meeting and write minutes and to do lists is…pretty good! But not exactly something my employer will fork out that much for.

@beowulf888.bsky.social The use of AI in military settings raises serious ethical concerns. If the tech is generating "hallucinations," it could lead to catastrophic decisions. We need stricter oversight to ensure AI is used responsibly, especially in sensitive contexts.

...but whether LLMs have a business case. The last Stanford AI report shows that LLMs are hallucinating answers (err, bullshitting) at least 20% of the time. Some are bullshitting at a much higher rate! Generative AI seems to be catching, on, though (unfortunately for the creative workers ).

A human could do it, but it would be a time-consuming, repetitive tedious exercise - the sort of thing for which computers are perfectly suited.

(AI) Winter is coming....

My second hand experience (at work) is it does make a buck, BUT, in circumstances where you are data rich and looking for patterns to optimise a process (in mining). It don't write no reports, nor convince VPs to keep funding it.

Sure. The few "AIs" I wrote myself did work in recognizing similarities in strands of DNA or protein chains. That was all fun and could help advance science and shit like that, but it isn't going to get you a yacht.

Yeah, the current state of AI is just Ponzi scheme all the way down.

At least blipverts were profitable.

Machine learning for fiding patterns is great. It helps the medical field a lot. What is NOT good and is the problem right now is Generative AI built on machine learning. That is theft and garbage and wasteful.

Sure 😃

I was going to say that there's already profitable uses of machine learning in amazon product suggestions and the For You page on Tiktok among other places. But they're in the background and are not money makers on their own, they just quietly make things work.

This is not true at all.The company I built is just one example (our tech was not based on gen-AI). Speech recognition, translation, even traditional Google search are all based on AI too. It’s frustrating that the discourse has been reduced to lumping everything in with poor uses of LLMs.

There are in our drug discovery work...but we write that stuff ourselves and use it internally. Unfortunately no one can make money on that.

Yesterday I dropped the full text for Fädernas gudasaga by Viktor Rydberg (1887, Swedish) into NotebookLM. I don’t speak 19th century Swedish, so just being able to ask a computer to explain the book was a big help. Not sure how you could do that without Generative AI.

I use GPT-adjacent stuff pretty heavily for work, but I have found that I need to be the expert on the topic I’m asking about. If I relinquish that responsibility to the LLM, it’s gonna lie to my face and I’ll be none the wiser. Having said that, I find these tools great for documentation crawling

I think this is a reasonable start but make some of the plastic toxic to certain portions of the population and make the safest be vital to folks who need it but it costs way more. If you haven't discovered ajl.org yet, highly recc.

And there is the pollution of internet searchs too. It became harder (or less convenient) to find information untouched by AI and is needless to say that content farms loves this shit.

"We're all going to be smearing shit soon, it's inevitable. I'm just so smart by being ahead of the curve."

And getting just as hard to avoid, these days.

Near daily I see articles about how it's using the power of multiple countries, and destroying power grids, and how companies are trying to get nuclear power plants running again to meet their demand, so I'm not sure how you're defining "nobody."

Everybody talks about the water, for some reason.

There's good and bad use cases - good, I want to knock up a PowerShell script to do something slightly strange, rather than finding something close using Google, a few rounds with Copilot gets me what I need. Bad, Google giving me an AI summary of the weather forecast which is no better.

None of it ? Interesting now I know, thanks.

Fair enough.

Sounds like how science works.

I have been thinking about it as a clip art generator which on paper is kind of ok (apart from putting clip artists out of work) but we can still destroy the planet by generating infinite clips arts.

Yes! I’d go a step further. AI-LLM are like a plastic fork, when a tine might break off and get stuck in the GI system without causing pain, initially, but messes with stuff until the GI system explodes. A little misinfo and persuasive text, harmless until it takes hold, then there goes a brain.

We were warned.

So true!

I've used it a few times, but after hearing about how much energy the server farms use just to answer a simple question, I've really cut back.

I can’t but see A.I. as someone’s name of “AL”

Plus it's going to put a lot of writers, and others, out of work.

Or the cheaters and fools who use AI with abandon because: a) “it levels the playing field of creativity”, b) “everyone else is using it, so why shouldn’t I?”, c) “it’s the future and if you don’t adopt it you’ll be left behind”, or d) “I need to look smarter than everyone else, but I’m not …”

There are some interesting and profitable applications in areas like drug discovery and protein folding. Chatbots are by far the least interesting application.

this context does not include replying to patient questions.

"AI" is just a catchall rich tech Bros use to convince people to do stupid shit with a tool (not actually AI, but algorithms created by wildly intelligent people) that could actually help improve society... $.02

And, like single-use plastic, it is utterly and needlessly destructive to the environment. When I read that Microsoft wanted to buy and start up the Three Mile Island nuclear plant again to fuel its AI... well, let's just say that was the last straw for me.

A nice analogy, seeing as single-use plastic is also typically poor quality and mass-produced, for the sake of cost and profit margins.

That's the best analogy I've heard for it

Plastic is a byproduct of drilling for oil, a thing we should probably stop doing. AI is a byproduct of drilling for Bitcoins, a thing people are ALREADY stopping, which is why there's all this spare compute laying around that we need to use for SOMETHING or go bankrupt.