AI needs to stop

[mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works]

Honestly I find this feature of my washer/dryer super-useful because it reminds me to turn the stuff over instead of forgetting and letting it sit in the washer getting midlewy

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

Natural unintelligence

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

This is why I only invest in things I actually want to use myself.

[dragonsinaroom@lemmy.world]

But the companies must posture that their on the cutting edge! Even if they only put the letters "AI" on the box of a rice cooker without changing the rice cooker

[uis@lemm.ee]

Train, backpropogate, optimize.

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

They would probably detect that and limit your usage.

Even not using their service still leaves its pollution. IMO the best way to fight back is to support higher pollution taxes. Crypto, AI, whatever's next - it should be technology agnostic.

[uis@lemm.ee]

criticizing genAI from a copyright

There is russian phrase "fight of beaver and donkey", which loosely means fight of two shits. Copyright is cancer and capitalist abuse of genAI is cancer.

[gladiusb@lemmy.world]

Was this done by AI?

[halosheep@lemm.ee]

I think I see people complaining about ai more than I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.

Complaining over nothing.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

Well that's sort of my point. It's an algorithm, or set of techniques for making one, that's been around since the 50s. Being around for a long time doesn't make it not part of the field of AI.

The field of AI has a long history of the fruits of their research being called "not AI" as soon as it finds practical applications.

The system is taking measurements of its problem area. It's then altering its behavior to produce a more optimal result given those measurements. That's what intelligence is. It's far from the most clever intelligence, and it doesn't engage in reason or have the ability to learn.

In the last iteration of the AI marketing cycle companies explicitly stopped calling things AI even when it was. Much like how in the next 5-10 years or so we won't label anything from this generation "AI", even if something is explicitly using the techniques in a manner that makes sense.

[entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Do you remember the original touch screens? They were pressure based and suuuuuuuuucked.

[uis@lemm.ee]

You are overexaggerating under assumption that there will exist social and economic system based on greed and death threats, which sounds very unreali-- Right, capitalism.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

You can't see a benefit to a washing machine that can wash clothes without you needing to figure out how much soap to add or how many rinse cycles it needs?

I genuinely pity anyone so influenced by marketing that they can't look at what a feature actually does before deciding they hate it.

[uis@lemm.ee]

It isn't an oval, it is ellipse.

[uis@lemm.ee]

Yes! So much better statement.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

Good for you. You might also be interested in this tool called a "washtub" that lets you do everything exactly how you want, without needing to trust a computer to interpret the positions of fancy dials and figure out how much to agitate your socks.

[yawweee877h444@lemmy.world]

Anti-AI has become a weird crowd mentality cult.

[carnelian@lemmy.world]

No, it couldn’t. That’s pure tech bro logic without any basis whatsoever in reality.

The machines already have these sensors. There’s simply nothing for “intelligence” to contribute to the process. It’s not enough for you to point to the presence of various sensors and claim it could do something with them when in reality this is already a solved problem. Additionally, the hypothetical AI-equipped machine itself will also be worse, using significantly more energy and being less reliable.

I say hypothetical, because the specific LG machine we’re talking about doesn’t even actually have any AI component. Yes I am aware of the difference between generative and analytical models; it has neither. Just normal sensors and algorithms that all modern washing machines have had for years. They threw the “AI” language on it to market it to people. You know, like a scam. Because the delightful thing about “AI” is you don’t need to provide any benefit to your marks, their imagination will do the work for you

[drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world]

The Imperium of Man got this right.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

Everything else aside, you need to clean your washing machine. Cloths shouldn't be smelling like mildew after less than a day in it.

Modern washing machines are also pretty quiet.