oakey66
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- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 day ago:
Experts in the field.
open.spotify.com/episode/4IoS9rBDq7GLwsgccKqCti?s…
I also work in the industry. In particular I work in data analytics consulting. It’s all hype to sell consulting hours and compute.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 days ago:
AGI is not in reach. We need to stop this incessant parroting from tech companies. LLMs are stochastic parrots. They guess the next word. There’s no thought or reasoning. They don’t understand inputs. They mimic human speech. They’re not presenting anything meaningful.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
Open ai made $2 billion on $5 billion in losses. Aside from folks on here talking about having it write proposals or spreadsheet formulas; this is not really a monetizable product. Aside from onsie twosie “it helps me write an email” scenarios, this isn’t something anyone should be spending $20 a month to boil the planet for.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 6 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
Because it’s now completely disconnected from the reality of the actual economy. It has been for a very long time. It has to do with how much money is funneled into the wealthiest hands.
- Comment on 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO | Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that 1 week ago:
What a dystopian nightmare we live in right now. Remember when politicians told us we have choices in our healthcare? I guess it says something that insurance CEOs are so hated that they need armed body guards and we’re so happy about “all our choices”.
- Comment on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’re mature. I think they’re just monopolized to the point where they don’t need to innovate at all. And I don’t see this as a net positive because these companies are so gigantic that they will drive down salaries and benefits for the rest of the middle sized and smaller sized companies. The other problem is that any company that gets this big now has the purchasing power to eliminate competition further cornering the talent pool and the tech market. These guys are the new oil barons of our time and their oil is our data. Not sure how to see this as anything but negative.
- Comment on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty clear that billionaire owners of publicly traded companies will do whatever is needed to continue the “number goes up” philosophy of American capitalism. It’s the rot that underlies the whole economy. This isn’t to excuse Zuckerberg but this is America as a whole. The need to increase profits takes priority over bucking fascism, pulling back on vitriolic public discourse, stuffing hyped AI products into every crevice of tech, and pursuing monopolistic business practices. It’s all baked in. And it makes everything worse. No one is attempting to address which is why America is absolutely doomed to collapse. No one is willing to even have the conversation about corporate control/influence of government as well as the philosophy of delivering shareholder value.
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 2 weeks ago:
No fucking way.
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 4 weeks ago:
As opposed to… what?
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 1 month ago:
This is me and I make well into the six figures. And I’m not spending above my means. This fucking sucks.
- Comment on Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition 1 month ago:
Lol.
- Comment on Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition 1 month ago:
Epoch times is owned by a partisan right winger. This is not a good source of information.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 5 months ago:
You gotta make up for a lack of innovation but just price gouging customers on absolutely everything. I only have Spotify because of the radio function but otherwise all of these services are absolute dog shit. They don’t offer anything new. They’ve just created a new set of moats for features, songs, videos, television and games. Eventually this system has to collapse because treating customers like employees that have no choice but to stay will lead people to innovate on piracy.
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- Comment on 7 months ago:
“AI” and google pushing ads into the search has made search virtually unusable.
- Comment on Congress gives standing ovation for modern day Hitler. 7 months ago:
Fuck the New York Times for the glowing headline.
- Comment on Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric” 7 months ago:
Mfer can’t even deliver the $25k Tesla. You think he’s going to deliver the most powerful AI? Lol. I got some snake oil to sell you.
- Comment on The American dream is over: Why some first-generation Gen Zers are moving abroad 7 months ago:
I’m putting away a sizable nest egg for my daughter in the hopes that she’s going to use it to get out of this god forsaken place when she’s old enough.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework 7 months ago:
It’s the Elon Musk narrative making we’ve been seeing over and over again. It’s hype. They’re about to run out of input data because they’ve sucked up everything they could. The Internet is being fed a bunch of bad results that come from LLM produced output which enshittifies the Internet further. These companies are burning cash and grid energy while the world burns. Unless there’s a spectacular breakthrough, this can’t keep going on much longer.
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 7 months ago:
Yes it was…
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 7 months ago:
Luckily very few people use Facebook.
- Comment on Meta to pull posts targeting 'Zionists' for harm 7 months ago:
Shut up. No it’s not.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 7 months ago:
I checked it out but there was nothing in my area.
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 8 months ago:
Wolverine somehow ended up in the model data and there you have it.
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 9 months ago:
Worth listening to a podcast by Ed Zitron who covers this exact same thing.
I work in analytics consulting and aside from some relatively straight forward text classification and parsing there really are so few instances where AI is useful. He actually made the case that AI is useful to people selling AI. But these chatbots are mostly useless bullshit.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 10 months ago:
A good portion of windows users are corporate/business users. They’re not going anywhere.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 1 year ago:
Not even the benefit of an interview is just weird. It doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 1 year ago:
Same. And I’ve been getting calls and interview requests for lower positions which I refuse to move to. I’m lucky that I have a good paying position at the moment so I don’t have to leave.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 1 year ago:
I’ve been using gpt as well. Still no responses.