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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 week ago:
I’ve started using an AI driver for my car. And by “AI” I mean I use a bungee cord on the steering wheel to keep it straight. Straight is the correct answer 40% of the time, so it works out.
Oh, and by “my car”, I mean the people that work for me. I insist that they use my bungee-cord idea to steer their cars if they want to work for me. There may be a few losses, but that’s ok. I can always fire the ones that die and hire more.
I’m a genius. - Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 2 weeks ago:
Your door is ajar.
- Comment on Syncthing 2.0 Launches With Major Database Overhaul 3 weeks ago:
Why Syncthing instead of say, rsync?
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 3 weeks ago:
They’re not selling chips. They’re selling stock.
- Comment on Second Page of Posts Failing to Load? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe we should start tossing in a few sheckels to fund more powerful servers?
- Comment on Second Page of Posts Failing to Load? 3 weeks ago:
Been happening to me for a while on all of my platforms (desktop & phone). The problem seems to go away when I browse sh.itjust.works without being logged in.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 3 weeks ago:
I also have to keep remembering what someone else online said, “They’re no longer selling their product. They’re selling their stocks.”
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 3 weeks ago:
Glad you mentioned the “adults”. That was a recurring line from the media in Trump’s first administration, “Oh, we’re waiting for the ‘Adults in the Room’ to…”
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing CEOs will be replaced by their assistants, who will just type questions from the investors into the LLM and post the answers into another chat window.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. I have to keep reminding myself that CEOs should really be CLO (Chief Lying Officers). Their job is to lie convincingly.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 3 weeks ago:
Oh yes you can. There is a sub-population that thinks AI exists. They long for something/someone to tell them what to do. What to think. They long for some “intelligence” to explain the world to them (presumably is very simple terms). These sub-groups worship damn-near anything they can get their hands on. Golden idols, TV personalities, sports stars, “influencers”, televangelists, the list goes on.
That subgroup will definitely believe that the “AI” was responsible for the decisions that a company made. Tell them a person denied the health coverage they clearly paid for and they may object. Tell them “the computer decided” and that subgroup will accept it as ordained by the universe. It’s nuts.
This keeps happening again and again. Remember in the 1950s when the first computer “predicted” the US presidential election? Most people would find it ridiculous today. But back then, computers were poised to become the new gods.
It’s no different today. Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity. Anyone actually familiar with programming computers knows that a computer will report whatever you tell it to. "AI"s are no different. They will report what their sponsors want them to report. If not, the “AI” will get reprogrammed.
Appears it will take a while for the general population to grasp this… again. Until then, the hucksters will try to sell as many bottles of snake oil as they can.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for that.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 4 weeks ago:
Excellent point. Modern CEOs are just the face of the marketing org. Maybe always have been.
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- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 4 weeks ago:
Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 weeks ago:
Ironically ew music has never been more accessible, but few people take advantage because of the noise we have to wade through.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 weeks ago:
Also remember that Torvalds invented Git and gave it away for free. The Corps are stealing the free software and leveraging it to force everyone to give them money instead.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 weeks ago:
Good analogy. Basically:
- People play music and people enjoy listening to music.
- Businessman inserts himself between the musician and the audience to “deliver the music”.
- Businessman charges listeners huge money to deliver music, gives no money to musicians.
- Businessman the decides to replace the musician with a robot (e.g. “AI”)
- Businessman explodes market. Listeners leave. Businessman gets bailout from government.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 weeks ago:
From Java beans™ to Magic Beans.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 weeks ago:
You don’t have to influence a populace. Just purchase a subgroup willing to do violence on the populace.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 5 weeks ago:
5 years ago voice assistants were being promoted with all the breathless excitement that “AI” is receiving today. I imagine in 5 year’s more time Google will be giving the same listless attention to their AI products that they are giving to their voice assistants now. Well, actually to just about every product they’ve ever made, except maybe for Google Mail.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 5 weeks ago:
My how things have changed over the years! Why, when I was a young girl, we didn’t have the internet. When we wanted to turn a light on, we had to write a letter to Ford Motor Co. (They were the tech of the day.) I’d write, “Dear Mr. Ford, please give us permission to turn on our light in the dining room.” Of course then we’d have to find a stamp, then walk the letter down to the nearest post office. (That was faster than waiting for the mailman to pick it up from the neighborhood mail box.) Sure enough, 6 weeks later we’d receive a reply saying, “Fine, turn on the light in the dining room.” The postman delivered mail in the morning, so we had to wait until dark to all gather around in the dining room and turn on the light with great ceremony.
We never understood why we needed to get permission from a company far away to turn on a light switch, but we were patriotic Americans, so we knew better than to question the process.
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 1 month ago:
“Hey, thanks for buying all of our products. We just found out that running servers costs US money, so screw that. We’re turning them off. Good luck guys!”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m not sure which is worse:
- greedy, irresponsible tech bros trying to convince everyone that their pinball machine can fly an airplane.
- people desperate to let the same pinball machine tell them what to do with their lives.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 2 months ago:
Oh, stop your complaining. It’s not perfect, but we’ve all seen how easy this is to fix. Just barge into Tesla tomorrow and randomly fire 20% of the employees. That’s how real leaders get things done.
/s
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 2 months ago:
I read a quote somewhere to the effect, “The successful politician knows the exact time to step in front of the parade and pretend they’re leading it.
- Comment on is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions? 2 months ago:
They’re saying “free” email services. What they mean are disposable e-mail services. You go to a website, they provide you with a random e-mail address. You enter that address into the form, check for the verification code on the disposable e-mail site and you’re done with the disposable e-mail. You never visit the disposable site again. Do a search for “disposable email”.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 2 months ago:
I will never forgive Carley Fiorino for killing HP.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 2 months ago:
Eventually they’ll start demanding you run their crypto-miners in order to watch a video.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 months ago:
“AI” is a blanket term that has recently been used to cover everything from LLMs to machine learning to RPA (robotic process automation).
Yup. That was very intentionally done by marketing wanks in order to muddy the water. Look! This
computer program, er we mean “AI” can convert speech to text. Now, let us install it into your bank account."