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That’s how I felt waking up this morning (as of posting). Who else can relate?

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 minutes ago

I wish this was the sort of problem I woke up with on my mind. Like I would kill to have your problems.

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

You're directing your hate the wrong way, the problem is how generative AI is employed by the greedy, not the technology itself.

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

How do you employ ai non-greedily, pray tell?

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Depends on what you want to accomplish. How do you employ a hammer non-greedly? You can use AI for meteorological forecasts, predicting diseases, data compression, the uses are endless. For the case of generative AI, it helps writing code, generate synthetic data, create quick proofs of concept etc.

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Obviously it's for gen ai. Why do ai boosters always conflate this!! You started this thread about "generative ai", and then when questioned gave a bunch of non-llm use cases, followed by a quick edit and 'oh yeah it can produce text'.

Every ai pusher does this. You ask why chatbots are useful and they basically accuse you of being anti-science, as if they believe talking to a chatbot should also be included as 'doing science'. You are a consumer, not a researcher.

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 2 points 42 minutes ago (2 children)

I am doing a PhD in computational neuroscience. We use LLMs a lot. Helps write code that I don't want to bother write and find some bugs due to human error. You sure make a lot of assumptions about strangers online.

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah, sure, it can produce text. That's not my issue with your previous comment. The issue is you bring up "generative ai" and then list a bunch of machine learning applications that have nothing to do with chatbots.

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 minutes ago

Machine learning is part of AI. I replied with multiple examples because the post and the reply asked about how to use AI non greedily and not generative AI specifically. Generative AI isn't just chatbots.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 0 points 16 minutes ago

I thought you were going to say something smart about use of machine learning algorithms, but you went with using LLMs to code for you instead.

[–] LordFireCrotch@lemmy.today 5 points 1 hour ago

Greed is when CEOs force it's use to justify laying off 30% of the staff.

Non-greed is everywhere and self hosting open source models exists. You can use it as any other technology / tool for yourself (personal assistant, coding assistant) Think of how much faster medical research can be done with it. Language barrier use cases as well. 2 individuals that don't share a common language can have a conversation thanks to NLP.

It's just a technology that calculates patterns.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz -1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

Wrong. Slop generating and cognitive offloading is bad and even the most mundane use of local AI contributes to ecological collapse for nothing in return.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Your performative hate is dull

[–] Mac@mander.xyz -1 points 21 minutes ago

Your trend-following buzzwords are worthless.