Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"

• lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is no gray. Only black and white!

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• Patch@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  All of the uses so far are bad, and I can’t see any that would work as well as a trained human.

  I’m no AI enthusiast, but this is clear hyperbole. Of course there are uses for it; it’s not magic, it’s just technology. You’ll have been using some of them for years before the AI fad came along and started labelling everything.

  Translation services are a good example. Google Translate and Bing Translate have both been using machine learning neural networks as their core technology for a decade and more. There’s no other way of doing it that produces anything close to as good a result. And yes, paying a human translator might get you good results too, but realistically that’s not a competitive option for the vast majority of uses (nobody is paying a translator to read restaurant menus or train station signage to them).

  This whole AI assistant fad can do one as far as I’m concerned, but the technologies behind the fad are here to stay.

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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Actually, the AI assistant fad isn’t all bad.

    HomeAssistant has an assistant pipeline that integrates into the most flexible smart home software around. It is completely local and doesn’t rely on the cloud at all. Essentially it could make Alexa’s and google homes (that literally spy on you and send key phrases back to your built data collection profile) obsolete. That is a way not to have to rely on corporate bullshit privacy invasion to have a good smart home.

    Indeed transcribing and translating (and preserving dying languages and being able to re-teach them) are 2 of the best consumer uses for AI. Then there is accelerating disease and climate research.

    If these were the use cases that were pushed instead of fucking conversational assistants, replacements for customer support that only direct to existing incomplete docs, taking away artists’ jobs, and creating 1984 “you can’t trust your own eyes and ears” in real time, then AI would actually be very worthwhile.

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• TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The “translate page” button in my browser is evil? Get a grip.

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are valid uses for AI. It is much better at pattern recognition than people. Apply that to healthcare and it could be a paradigm shift in early diagnosis of conditions that doctors wouldn’t think to look for until more noticeable symptoms occur.

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It already has been applied to healthcare, and nearly every other industry, and has been for more than a decade.

    The current LLM hype is the only thing most people know of when they hear “AI”. Which is a shame.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Peak hype-based ignorance 🤣

  Being this confident while also not knowing how AI has been in use for more than the last decade, and going off on a rant on AI mistakes when a defining feature of AI is to solve problems that classical programming cannot, but without guaranteed results, is cringe AF

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