Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it’s a “cognitive amplifier,” claims Satya Nadella.
in other words please help us, use our AI
AI is the new 3dTV
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Submitted 1 month ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s way worse that 3Dtv.
leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes, 3d tv was pushed too soon. If they waited for the glassless technology (like the 3ds screen for example) I think we would have 3d screen everywhere. Now the tech is dead because people had a really bad perception of 3d tv.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hey, I like my 3D TV. Every once in a while I manage to find a pirated video that’s in 3D and it’s pretty neat. And unlike the current avalanche of generative/LLM bullshit, I can turn the 3D off, and when I do it works just fine as a perfectly ordinary TV, and in no way does it nag me incessantly to turn it back on.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 month ago
Hey, don’t be mean to 3DTV. At least there’s an actual use case for it. Watching 3D TV or movies, which aren’t actually that popular… Hmmm, I see your point but also counter with the 3D TVs are at least also regular TVs
saimen@feddit.org 1 month ago
Eeh didn’t you pay attention in economy 101? If you generate more supply than demand that’s a you problem. The free market will take care.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The products and services around ‘AI’ are deficient and dangerous, that’s what the market says. There’s no demand for bullshit products. It is the ignorance and unwillingness to understand of the tech bros that is revealed here. They don’t listen to the market, aka. the people.
saimen@feddit.org 1 month ago
I guess the sunken cost fallacy does its part as well
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 month ago
College degrees are scraps of paper to then. They go to those places to find people and make connections.
I went to university to learn and earn a degree. I didn’t make connections. Hence why I never landed a job.
BioDriver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AI can absolutely be useful. But it’s been wildly oversold and the actual beneficial use cases are not nearly as profitable as the marketing around it
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
“A great commander secures his victory before entering into battle. A poor commander first rushes into battle and then searches for victory.”
~Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Ruigaard@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Isn’t there plenty of research it’s the opposite of a cognitive amplifier, people get cognitively lazy using ai.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Geez, CEO’s don’t need any more excuses to be lazier. They gonna farm out their pointing and ordering people to carry out underlings’ ideas, and throwing tantrums, to AI?
Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
On the flipside, I think the incentives for creativity/hard work have been eroded to the point that the outcomes don’t reflect the effort regardless of level.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Somebody above you is just going to steal your idea and get promoted for it, while you get fired so you you don’t blow their cover.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s not how technology is supposed to work.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
can’t keep what you never had you corrupt piece of shit.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I got deepseek to run short roleplaying adventures that are surprisingly fun and engaging. It’s an amped up choose your own adventur, so for this application, the future is bright.
Not a single other llm can do this in any way approaching acceptable.
And it still lies and makes shit up, but in a fantasy world, the can let it pass unless it is trying to rob me of experience lol.
When it can do long sessions and entire careers instead of detailed one offs it’ll have found its niche for me. Right now, it’s just a fun toy, prone to hallucinations.
I can’t believe people use these things for code…
5too@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Right now, it’s just a fun toy, prone to hallucinations.
That’s the thing though - with an LLM, it’s all “hallucinations”. They’re just usually close to reality, and are presented with an authoritative, friendly voice.
(Or, in your case, they’re usually close to the established game reality!)
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This is the thing I hope people learn about LLMs, it’s all hallucinations.
When an LLM has excellent data from multiple sources to answer your question, it is likely to give a correct answer. But, that answer is still a hallucination. It’s dreaming up a sequence of words that is likely to follow the previous words. It’s more likely go give an “incorrect” hallucination when the data is contradictory or vague. But, the process is identical. It’s just trying to dream up a likely series of words.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
I can also see a lot of use in general for gaming! There might be a future where game assets are generated on the fly, dialogue and storylines are without artificial limits, no invisible borders in game worlds. The technology is useful, but not in the way those fools want to force it.
Hule@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, images where not every pixel is important. NPC-s going about their business. The traffic. The weather. Games will use it, I’m sure of it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Fair, but compare that to the fun of an actual in-person TTRPG. It’s the main way I make new friends as an adult man.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Well you already lost that or rather never actually had that. You all pushed a broken and incomplete product you need to find a use not us…
nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AI is the only “product” that I’ve ever seen where the sales pitch is, “We made it and now you should want it, but you have to figure out why you want it.”
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Even if I do want it, there are plenty of free models that I can use locally, on my desktop PC. They don’t phone home, either, so Nadella doesn’t see a cent from me directly or indirectly.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I hereby revoke my permission.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Honestly, this is the most reasonable take I have heard from tech bros on ai so far… Use it for something useful and stop using it for garbage!
Ai has a million great uses that could make so many things so much easier, but instead we are building AI to undress women on twitter
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“we” aren’t doing that. The tech bros are.
kiagam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly that is one of the only things it is doing well
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Women and children
redlemace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To be honest, I did tried a couple of AI’s. But all I got where solutions that would never work on the stated hardware. Code full of errors and when fixed never functions as requested. On any non-technical questions it’s always agreeing and hardly (not at all actually) challenging any input you give it. So yeah, i’m done with it and waiting for the bubble to burst.
utopiah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry buddy but you are not “smart enough” to use that super powerful tool that supposedly can do everything extremely convenient for you! /s
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 month ago
While I agree with you, it sounds like you have only tried LLMs back in the day. They have become a lot better in recent times.
Especially when you want code, the differences are stark between an old LLM and a recent programming optimized LLM like Claude.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
We need an American Zelenskyy who would save us from the oligarchs.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Like a president but good?
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
leader of the free world
Photonic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do something useful
What do you mean, that using ChatGPT for a recipe for eggs, sunny side up without any seasoning or toppings and burning up the electricity of a moderate household for a week with my query isn’t useful?
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 month ago
Allrecipes has you covered.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No. No, it really doesn’t.
I want a vegan recipe that uses turbinado sugar. I get 3 articles and only one of them is a recipe. If I don’t like that recipe…too bad. That’s what they have.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s not the query that burns through electricity like crazy, it’s training the models.
You can run a query yourself at home with a desktop computer, as long as it has enough RAM and compute cells to support the model you’re using (think a few high-end GPUs).
Training a model requires a huge pile of computer power though, and the AI companies are constantly scraping the internet to
stealfind more training materialsobchak@programming.dev 1 month ago
Dunno if that’s true or not. Generally, much more compute is used in inference than training, since you only train once, then use that model for millions of queries or whatever. However, some of these AI companies may be training many models constantly to one-up each-other and pump their stock; dunno. The “thinking” model paradigm is also transferring a lot more compute to inference. IIRC OpenAI spent $300k of compute just for inference to complete a single benchmark a few months ago (and found that, like training, exponentially increasing amounts of compute are needed for small gains in performance).
nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The number of adults I know who ask ChatGPT for recipes is non-zero.
Teenagers use it like it’s a search engine. They don’t understand the difference.
nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Buddy, I hope you will lose social permission to keep your head attached to your body. All your heads on spikes, is what I wish for.
Amberskin@europe.pub 1 month ago
They don’t have that permission
bassgirl09@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My sole use for AI has been troubleshooting computer issues. I will say that AI often does a better job than first line tech support when prompted correctly. That being said, I am a tech nerd who knows more than the average computer user that is not in the IT industry. There will always be a reason for human tech support tiers for people who cannot prompt AI correctly, but still need their stuff to work. I personally don’t want AI invading my life any further.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s exactly the reason why you get good results when prompting a chatbot. You have the knowledge to ask the right questions with the needed keywords and lingo. What’s problematic is that Microslop and big tech in general are advertising AI as a generic tool for everyone and their grandmother. The result is garbage in, garbage out. It’s not going to work as advertised.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Its a admission that it isn’t doing anything useful.
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
[deleted]Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Feels like most trending tech these days. I’m so tired.
StitchInTime@piefed.social 1 month ago
I appreciate the social permission for so many folks to switch to Linux. KDE has come a long way.
khanh@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
“Microsoft CEO begs for us to use the software that he’s been shoving down our throats for the last 10 years or so or else his corporation will lose money”
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Citizen developers of the world, disband!!
RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He could set an example by replacing himself with AI
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Isn’t it alleged that China goes for specific use cases and not general intelligence?
Maybe that’s the way to go and not the gamble that the US and western companies are doing.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s much easier to build an expert ai, you don’t need it to have general knowledge and can feed them data manuals. It takes a lot less processing power and generates much better, accurate and relevant results. It also means there is a set quantity of data the ai can/needs to consume to know everything about x subject.
Think about it like the… The Spotify library is like 350tb, but you won’t ever need all that, exclude all foreign language content,podcasts, and genres you don’t care about and that 350tb can get slimmed down a much more relevant 35tb, specialist ai is kinda like that…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
heres something useful, REMOVE AI from all your products, and undo windows10/11 changes.
h3ron@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
when they asked permissions?
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 1 month ago
Brother, AI has proven multiple times to make you stupider. It’s not a cognitive amplifier.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
He has my permission to stop.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We’re not replacing workers fast enough.
-This jackass, essentially.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dude, you never had "social permission to do this in the first place, none of us asked for this shit. You’re literally destroying the planet and our future for you personal gain. You useless waste of space.