Trust the parasite class! I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right..?
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AI is not making my life easier. My gas is not cheaper. Food is still the 2nd highest spend behind housing. Its just not a thing that people with grass to mow need beyond maybe a better search engine.
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"Young people increasingly don't appear to be incredibly dumb, survey finds."
my experience, that all my collegues who are aroubd 28-35, use a shitload of ai. younger generation is now using it instead of google search.
That's because they fucked the google search so that ai is the only thing that gives you what you're looking for. Eventually. After you've argued with it.
At least google's ai will list the sources it's allegedly drawing from so you can verify it's hallucinations live.
billionaires tell people to love the thing they are trying to get them hooked on so that they can run a rampant monopoly and make some more billions.
If you remove yourself from the equation maybe there is some chance. So if you really love AI, perhaps fuck off.
Good. Young people are hip to what's going on and that is uplifting.
With ai hallucinations..Ai fakery and the topmost reason being layoffs being attributed increasingly to AI...I don't think so there's anything much to love about AIs. When billionaires tell the society to love something... it's because there's 10000% profit for them in that and almost none for us masses.
I've been in IT since 2007 I've been with computers since 1994 with a second hand MS DOS.
AI is 100 very good for scientists and people in the medical industry (I don't know why, but I know they've all told me it's good for them). Outside of the above.. Everything else about AI is pointless.. It's just googling things slightly faster than I can google things.
Interestingly, in the medical field, I have seen a few headlines, but, I was talking to a guy who works for Mayo Clinic. His job is literally trying to quantify the effects AI is having with the doctors, and talking with him I said the same thing “at least it’s good for the medical field” and he replied with “who told you that? I would actually love to speak with them.” So, I’m not sure how effective it is in the medical field either.
Very interesting, I work in IT and talked about how useless AI is and I got told off by multiple "scientists" because AI was revolutionising the way they did their research.
Granted this was on Reddit so maybe just people wanting to argue.
Googling things a bit faster, but now all the sites it is searching are AI generated.
Scientists that use AI aren’t likely to remain good scientists for long.
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your pet rock has advice for you
You shouldn't trust billionaires at all. Even the "good ones". You don't get a billion net worth without exploiting people
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I mean, the marketing people should have been able to tell management that too.
Never underestimate me how out of touch business management can be.
There's a saying- corporate consultants are people who charge millions to tell you what your employees and customers have been trying to tell you for free.
I don’t trust anyone who is impressed by LLMs enough to consider them to be in any way adjacent to intelligence.
You are absolutely right! Should I create a list of people who you should not trust?
Why would that be necessary? They’ll freely and readily identify themselves.
They were responding as an LLM would, as a joke.
OK, I don’t use them. Thanks for the explanation.
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Most everything I do is local but I don’t trust AI anymore than I trust any other tool. If it gives code that works or instructions to do what I need great. Even when it’s wrong I’m learning something new.
I totally agree about the billionaires. I absolutely don’t trust these dickheads running the shit show… Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison… Fuck everyone of these guys. Everyone of them is a rich asshole trying to scheme as much as they can out of the system. I think their end goal is to put people out of work so they can automate as much as possible so they don’t rely on anything else. If AGI or superintelligence arrives within the decade, whoever controls it controls the economy that follows. It will be such a game changer nobody is even close to prepared for it.
Go read “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Colossus by D.F. Jones, or maybe Accelerando by Charles Stross. None of these end well.
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