AI needs to stop

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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.

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To be fair, APIs have been around since the 70s,and are not trendy, they're just required to have a common interface for applications to request and perform actions with each other.

But yeah, AI is mostly trendy bullshit

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I like what we could be doing with AI.

For example there's one AI that I read about awhile back that was given data sets on all the known human diseases and the medications that are used to treat them.

Then it was given data sets of all the known chemical compounds(or something like that, can't remember the exact wording)

Then it was used to find new potential treatments for diseases. Like new antibiotics. Basically it gives medical researchers leads to follow.

That's fucking cool and beneficial to everyone. It's a wonderful application of the tech. Do more of that please.

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What you are talking about is machine learning which is called AI. What the post is talking about is LLMs which are also called AI.

AI by definition means anything that exhibits intelligent behavior and it is not natural in nature.

So when you use GMaps to find the shortest path between 2 points that's also AI (specifically called local search).

It is pointless to argue/discuss AI if nobody even know which type they are specifically talking about.

Klnsfw 🏳️‍🌈

And environmental cost.

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The issue is, people tend to overgeneralize and also get averted when some buzzword is repeated too much.

So, this negatively affects the entire field of any AI.