Submitted 10 months ago by vodkasolution@feddit.it to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
This is so spot on. I use AI all the time, but the hype and “we should AI all the things” is ridiculous.
I blame it on bullshit jobs. Too many people have to come up with weekly nonsense busywork tasks just to justify themselves. Also the usual FOMO. “Guys, we can’t fall behind the competition on this!”
Yep. I have middle management above me gleefully cheering the fact that ChatGPT can write their reports for them now. Well guess what, it can write those reports for me, the actual person doing the real work, and you are now redundant.
Or like the blockchain 5 years ago
Or like VR 10 years ago
Or like 3D 15 years ago
It is the hot new thing that you have to use for the VCs to fund your company and for investors to buy your stocks, regardless of the actual utility. AI does seem to have at least more possibilities of usage than those technologies, but it also have an incredibly higher possibility of misuse that is being completely ignored by these companies
It was always clear that VR, 3D, blockchain were fads. But AI is already useful as is. The hype may not be as high in the future but AI is here to stay.
VR is also around, it’s possibly the most popular it’s ever been. It’s still a small niche compared to its initial promise.
I strongly disagree. 3D, VR and blockchain have limited use. They were just extremely overhyped. It’s the exact same now with AI. It has uses, yes, but you don’t need it in your toothbrush.
I work for a fairly big IT company. They’re currently going nuts about how generative AI will change everything and have been for the last year or so. I’m yet to see it actually be used by anyone.
I imagine the new Microsoft Office copilot integration will be used only slightly more than Clippy was back in the day.
But hey, maybe I’m just an old man shouting at the AI powered cloud.
The problem with GenAI is the same as any system. Garbage in equals garbage out. Couple it with no tuning and it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Good GenAI can exist, but you need some serious data science and time to tune it. Right now that puts the cost outside of the “do it by hand” realm (and by quite a bit). LLMs are useful given that they’ve been trained on general human writing patterns, but for a company to be able to replace their functions with highly specific tasks they need to develop and push their own data sets and training which they don’t want to spend the money on.
I was watching this morning the WAN podcast (linustechtips) and they had an interview with Jim Keller talking mostly about AI.
The portions about AI felt like he was living in an alternate universe, predicting AI will be used literally everywhere.
My bullshit-o-meter hit the stars but comments on the video seem positive 🤔
To be fair, we only know where Bluetooth is useful because we put it in a lot of places where it wasn’t useful
Same with AI
Trial and error isn’t the only way to optimize things… It’s actually one of the worst, the one you use when you have no clue how to proceed
So no, that is not a justification for having done it or continue to do it
Now I wonder if substituting the sugar in my coffee with arsenic would render a delicious new beverage… Only one way to find out!
Almost a good take. Except that AI doesn’t exist on this planet, and you’re likely talking about LLMs.
You’re using AI to mean AGI and LLMs to mean AI. That’s on you though, everyone else knows what we’re talking about.
This reminds me I’m into season 5 of Burn Notice and Sam said at one point, “I’m on Bluetooth if you need me”. It was a weird reminder that once upon a time people were paid to advertise just… Bluetooth, because that’s a brand name.
The product placements in that show are not exactly subtle. Excellent show though, I did not expect it to hold up so well.
Didn’t they say “bing it” at one point CSI or something
Apparently that was Hawaii 5-0. My favourite CSI moment though was the huge ad for Microsoft Photosynth
You sure they didn’t mean it like “put it on a USB?” As in, they use the name of the connectivity technology to imply a single class of product that might use it?
That’s exactly what they meant, it’s just a weird way to say it that they only used because the condition consortium payed them to
And it will inevitably lead to security compromises.
What’s that but another opportunity for a different AI to assess security strength?
LLM are grossly subsidized by piles of investment capital hoping to corner the market. It may ultimately be that the only profitable uses for these services are illicit
Okay I’ll bite. Where exactly has it not been useful? that you all have had the chance to check out at least once.
I’m still angry about my waterproof Bluetooth headphones i bought to do laps.
I’m too young to know what Bluetooth was like 20yrs ago, can anyone elucidate?
"VR in the 80s" is my go to analogy. Sooo many promises, such tantalizing potential.... and zero follow through
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or even like modern wifi. I saw a vacuum with wifi capabilities. Do I really need to check my vacuum battery level from my phone?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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FireRetardant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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vodkasolution@feddit.it 10 months ago
I saw a Bluetooth toothbrush that send reports to your phone on how good you brushed your teeth, like wtf?!
mrfriki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It also send reports to they corporate overlords. Most probably anyway.
HowlsSophie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
EXACTLY! Hubby has one of those, that function got old pretty quickly.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
TBH I use that to make sure my kids brush their teeth before the electronics get Internet in the morning.
ours@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Saw a “smart” steam ironing board.
vodkasolution@feddit.it 10 months ago
I’ll call it smart when it will iron my shirts!