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The less technologically literate shout "AI is theft!"
Conspiracy theorists whisper of "government surveils" and "brain hacking chips"...
As a result, those who don't understand new technology become fearful of it.
In itself, "AI" is a total buzzword.
I get AI has its uses but I don’t need my mouse to have any thing AI related (looking at you Logitech).
Hi, I'm annoying and want to be helpful. Am I helpful? If I repeat the same options again when you've told me I'm not helpful, will that be helpful? I won't remember this conversation once it's ended.
Hi, which option have you told me you already don't want would you like?
Sorry, I didn't quite catch that, please rage again.
Meanwhile, I just had Cluade turn a few obscure academic papers into a slide deck on the subject, along with presentation notes and interactive graphs, using like 5 prompts and 15 min.
I have no qualms about AI being used in products. But when you have to tell me that something is "powered by AI" as if that's your main selling point, then you do not have a good product. Tell me what it does, not how it does it.
I'll use it more when its has a proven reliable use.
This is because AI is usually used to reduce the human cost to the company, and rarely to reduce the human labour for the customer.
That, or mass surveillance.
Very nicely put!
Sex one way, half ad oxen the other.
If I could have the equivalent of a smart speaker that ran the AI model locally and could interface with other files on the system. I would be interested in buying that.
But I don't need AI in everything in the same way that I don't need Bluetooth in everything. Sometimes a kettle is just a kettle. It is bad enough we're putting screens on fridges.
I could go for the fridge screen if it was focused more around showing me what was in the fridge without opening the door and making grocery lists.
I like the vast majority of my technology dumb, the last barely smart kettle I bought - it had a little screen that showed you temperature and allowed you to keep the water at a particular temperature for 3h - broke within a month. Now I once again have a dumb kettle, it only has the on/off button and has been working perfectly since I got it
"Water is wet! Fire is hot!"
The professy will help
AUGHHH, FIRE INDEED HOT
Ai is not even truly ai right now, there's no intelligence, it's a statistical model made by training billions of stolen data to spit out the most similar thing to fit the prompt. It can get really creepy because it's very convincing but on closer inspection it has jarring mistakes that trigger uncanny valley shit. Hallucinations is giving it too much credit, maybe when we get AGI in a decade that'll fitting.
You're not wrong, but the implementation doesn't really matter I think. If AI could spit out sentences convincingly enough, I'd be okay with that. But, yeah, it's not there yet.
I'll be bach.
