AI needs to stop

edric

Yup, you can see it in talks on annual tech conferences. Last year it was APIs, this year it’s all AI. They’ll just move on to the next trendy thing next year.

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I hated it when everything became 'smart'.

Now everything has 'AI'.

Nothing was smart. And that's not AI.

Everything costs more, everything has a stupid app that gets abandoned, IoT backend that's on life support the moment it was turned on. Subscriptions everywhere! Everything is built with lower quality, lower standards.

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"AI" is really ANI - Artifical Narrow Intelligence.

Like language models, spewing BS all the time.

AGI - Artificial General Intelligence, however... maybe that would actually be useful... maybe...

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Was shopping for a laundry machine for my parents and LG, I shit you not, has an AI laundry machine now. I just can't even

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The reassuring thing is that AI actually makes sense in a washing machine. Generative AI doesn't, but that's not what they use. AI includes learning models of different sorts. Rolling the drum a few times to get a feel for weight, and using a light sensor to check water clarity after the first time water is added lets it go "that's a decent amount of not super dirty clothes, so I need to add more water, a little less soap, and a longer spin cycle".

They're definitely jumping on the marketing train, but problems like that do fall under AI.

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but we aren't any closer to agi than we were in the 50's. $100 billion in revenue for openai won't be any closer to agi either.

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Respectfully, there’s no universe in which any type of AI could possibly benefit a load of laundry in any way. I genuinely pity anyone who falls for such a ridiculous and obvious scam

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I don't blame them, they have to compensate their organic intelligence somehow.

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yes, we need to ask for AI's consent first!

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oh wait, i think i read it wrong

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People bitching about AI is so much more annoying than the presence of AI.

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"AI" isn't ready for any type of general consumer market and that's painfully obvious to anyone even remotely aware of how it's developing, including investors.

...but the cost benefit analysis on being first-to-market with anything even remotely close to the universal applicability of AI is so absolutely insanely on the "benefit" side that it's essentially worth any conceivable risk, because the benefit if you get it right is essentially infinite.

It won't ever stop

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But, but, but they want to sell as much of it as they can before the bubble bursts.

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Its not really targeting the consumers here, its just to impress investors with it

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Is there a way to fight back? Like I do t need Adobe in my Microsoft Word at work, can I just make a script that constantly demands AI content from it that is absolutely drivel, and set it running over the weekend while I'm not there? To burn up all their electricity and/or processing power?

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If only it were just AI...

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I was ok with crypto and nft because it was up to me to decide if I want to get involved in it or not.

AI does seem to have impact at jobs, at least employers are trying to use it and see if it actually will allow them to hire less staff, I see that for SWE. I don't think AI will do much there though.

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The thing is, we've had that sort of capability for a long time now, we called them algorithms. Rebranding it as ai is pure marketing bullshit

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I kind of like AI, sorry.

But it should all be freely available & completely open sourced since they were all built with our collective knowledge. The crass commercialization/hoarding is what's gross.