AI needs to stop

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Diplomjodler

The problem isn't AI. The problem is greedy, clueless management pushing half baked products of dubious value on consumers.

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So... the AI?

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And dubious ethical origin.

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ohellidk

Yes but now they have a tool...

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they don't care. you're not the audience. the tech industry lives on hype. now it's ai because before that they did it with nft and that failed. and crypto failed. tech needs a grift going to keep investors investing. when the bubble bursts again they'll come up with some other bullshit grift because making useful things is hard work.

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