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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nobody has provided ‘AI’, at least if those characters are intended to be an initialisation of Artificial Intelligence.

Whenever anyone is impressed by the function or output of a LLM to the level they’re convinced it’s a representation of intelligence, their input and opinion of the targeted subject should be summarily dismissed, and if they persist, ridiculed.

[–] the_wonderfool@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

But... But... Will nobody think of the stakeholders?

[–] crimsonsky@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I remember after the rise of social media, the world was always going towards decentralized finance, blockchain and many other things. Hell even Meta burnt massive cash in metaverse which supported cryptos. But after Covid, the whole AI episode started playing out of nowhere, and even now, the whole push around it just feels unnatural, almost as if staged. Today's so called AI success is 30% based purely on merit and 70% based on coordinated media management and unsoliciated offerings of desperate investment.

The innovations in AI/ML were always part of the modular infrastructure, specific to the enterprise level products and not su much for the retail users.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

In order for AI to have a market there would need to be a large scale demonstration of the uses and benefits of AI in many various industries, most of which do not involve image generation or writing a single line of computer code.

I'm so sick of asking people for demonstrations of AI use and it being 100% programmers going "oh it's really good at writing functions", now I have no idea if it is, or isn't, any good at writing functions, but since I don't write functions, that example is of no use to me.

I want to know how good it is at writing technical documentation for proprietary hardware solutions that the AI will have no experience of in its training set, because I suspect it sucks at it. How good is it at taking poorly written guides in Chinese, translated into English via Klingon and ancient Babylonian, how does it handle it if it comes across the sentence "absolutely do not ever warning" with no additional information as to what I absolutely should never not do. Because that's when thinking is involved, and AI doesn't think.

[–] Anarchitect@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

It's quite terrible at writing technical documentation of even systems of pure code it's coded itself , it's been all down hill since opus 4.6 for writing in any kind of coherent English to convey information .

The thing is so full of slogans, irrelevant counting , and meta commentary announcing what it's going to say moronically, and weird AF corporate sleazeball speak, now it can rattle on for pages saying mere sentences worth of information .

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I really wanna punch this asshole. Just once.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I did not read the full article since it is paywalled.

But well, nobody asked for the internet either.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've avoided it entirely but I was trying to look for forum threads to help me get the right console commands to fix Skyrim glitches. At first I didn't realize I was getting AI results, but at some point I realized not only was I using AI, it was a MASTER at fixing Skyrim glitches.

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[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Nobody Asked for AI" is a pretty stupid argumentative approach.

  • It's obviously wrong because a lot of people ask for AI which actually works. And I myself use AI daily because it does work for some things better (and yes, sometimes that just means faster and/or cheaper) than the alternatives right now.
  • If actually nobody had asked for AI, that would still be a null-argument because AI is pretty damn useful regardless. There was a massive resistance against locomotives, cars, power looms... technology in general. Some new technology was outright wrong. But after all, people do live longer and less children die per capita now than before the industrialization. Not knowing that it will be useful doesn't imply it isn't useful. You are using technology which simply didn't exist a hundred years ago right now. Technological advancement is actually a proven-good thing.
  • Arguing against AI in general completely misses the point. What people actually hate is US AI companies. And rightfully so. The self-licking ice cone of circular funding brought us the RAM shortage, massive power grid destabilization, local environmental problems because of reckless construction and operation of data centers (on paper, data centers are the absolute cleanest thing you can build; but they use dirty gas turbines because the grid can't sustain them; and somehow they also manage to waste massive amounts of water - no idea, how though, as all professional cooling tech uses closed loops).
[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

But after all, people do live longer and less children die per capita now than before the industrialization.

So far. The consequences of industrialization are still pending.

[–] berno@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

nobody asked for automobiles

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