AI needs to stop

My home is already plenty dumb enough without me exerting that level of control.

I think I will try ESP-Home, half of my appliances are Tasmota-based now, I just was too lazy to research compatible Thermostats... (Painful hindsight)...

I work as a dev in an IT consulting company. My work includes zero AI development, but other parts of ghe company are embracing it.

To be fair, APIs have been around since the 70s,and are not trendy, they're just required to have a common interface for applications to request and perform actions with each other.

But yeah, AI is mostly trendy bullshit

Last year it was APIs

Hahaha the inane shit you can read on this website

it's not up to you, it just failed before it could be implemented. many publishers already commit to in-game nfts before they had to back down because it fell apart too quickly (and some still haven't). if it held on for just a couple more years there wouldn't be a single aaa title that doesn't have nfts today.

crypto was more complicated because unlike these two you can't just add it and say "here, this is all crypto now" because it requires prior commitment and it's way too complicated for the average person. plus it doesn't have much benefit: people already give you money and buy fake coins anyway.

I'm giving examples from games because it's the most exploitative market but these would also seep into other apps and services if not for the hurdles and failures. so now we're stuck with this. everyone's doing it because it's a gold rush except instead of gold it's literal shit, and instead of a rush it's literal shit.

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... and just today I realized I had to switch back to Google assistant because literally the only thing gemini can do is talk back to me, but it can't do anything useful, including the simplest shit like converting currency.

"I'm sorry, I'm still learning" -- why, bitch? why don't you already know this? what good are you if I ask you to do something for convenience and instead you tell me to do it manually and start explaining how I can do the most basic shit that you can't do as if I'm the fucking idiot.

when we're in the midst of another bull run.

Oh, that's nice. So, who's money are you rug pulling?

What you are talking about is machine learning which is called AI. What the post is talking about is LLMs which are also called AI.

AI by definition means anything that exhibits intelligent behavior and it is not natural in nature.

So when you use GMaps to find the shortest path between 2 points that's also AI (specifically called local search).

It is pointless to argue/discuss AI if nobody even know which type they are specifically talking about.

You had me in the first half, but then you lost me in the second half with the claim of stolen material. There is no such material inside the AI, just the ideas that can be extracted from such material. People hate their ideas being taken by others but this happens all the time, even by the people that claim that is why they do not like AI. It's somewhat of a rite of passage for your work to become so liked by others that they take your ideas, and every artist or creative person at that point has to swallow the tough pill that their ideas are not their property, even when their way of expressing them is. The alternative would be dystopian since the same companies we all hate, that abuse current genAI as well, would hold the rights to every idea possible.

If you publicize your work, your ideas being ripped from it is an inevitability. People learn from the works they see and some of them try to understand why certain works are so interesting, extracting the ideas that do just that, and that is what AI does as well. If you hate AI for this, you must also hate pretty much all creative people for doing the exact same thing. There's even a famous quote for that before AI was even a thing. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

I'd argue that the abuse of AI to (consider) replacing artists and other working creatives, spreading of misinformation, simplifying of scams, wasting of resources by using AI where it doesn't belong, and any other unethical means to use AI are far worse than it tapping into the same freedom we all already enjoy. People actually using AI for good means will not be pumping out cheap AI slop, but are instead weaving it into their process to the point it is not even clear AI was used at the end. They are not the same and should not be confused.

You mean that?

Not as bad as the IR touch screens. They had a IR field protected just above the surface of the screen that would be broken by your finger, such would register a touch at that location.

Or a fly landing on your screen and walking a few steps could drag a file into the recycle bin.

Docker is only useful in that many scenarios. Nowadays people make basic binaries like tar into a container, stating that it's a platform agnostic solution. Sometimes some people are just incompetent and only know docker pull as the only solution.

LXC -- natively containerize an application (or multiple)

systemd-run -- can natively limit CPU shares and RAM usage

I think the complaint is that apps are being designed with containerization in mind when they don't need it

Not sure about that hot take. Containers are here for the long run.

If only it were just AI...

Natural unintelligence

And environmental cost.

One of my favorite examples is "smart paste". Got separate address information fields? (City, state, zip etc) Have the user copy the full address, clock "Smart paste", feed the clipboard to an LLM with a prompt to transform it into the data your form needs. Absolutely game-changing imho.

Or data ingestion from email - many of my customers get emails from their customers that have instructions in them that someone at the company has to convert into form fields in the app. Instead, we provide an email address (some-company-inbound@ myapp.domain) and we feed the incoming emails into an LLM, ask it to extract any details it can (number of copies, post process, page numbers, etc) and have that auto fill into fields for the customer to review before approving the incoming details.

So many incredibly powerful use-cases and folks are doing wasteful and pointless things with them.

That's really neat, thanks for sharing that example.

In my field (biochemistry), there are also quite a few truly awesome use cases for LLMs and other machine learning stuff, but I have been dismayed by how the hype train on AI stuff has been working. Mainly, I just worry that the overhyped nonsense will drown out the legitimately useful stuff, and that the useful stuff may struggle to get coverage/funding once the hype has burnt everyone out.

"But master, the toast is already burned, surely you-"
*Me, eyes glowering with a malevolence* "DOWN YOU GO."
"Master! Nooooo--!"

Do they though? Are they ignoring the risk of a bubble collapse?

Those people don't matter, they just have money.

If your motives are profit, you can draw furry porn or get a real job.

Issue is, that 8 hours people spend in "real" jobs are a big hindrance, and could be spent on doing the art instead, and most of those ghouls now want us to do overtime for the very basics. Worst case scenario, it'll be a creativity drought, with idea guys taking up the place of real artists by using generative AI. Best case scenario is AI boom totally collapsing, all commercial models become expensive to use. Seeing where the next Trump administration will take us, it's second gilded age + heavy censorship + potential deregulation around AI.

The thing is, we've had that sort of capability for a long time now, we called them algorithms. Rebranding it as ai is pure marketing bullshit

No, problems like "how dirty is this water" do not fall under AI. It's a pretty simple variable of the type software has been dealing with since forever.

Respectfully, there’s no universe in which any type of AI could possibly benefit a load of laundry in any way. I genuinely pity anyone who falls for such a ridiculous and obvious scam

Honestly I find this feature of my washer/dryer super-useful because it reminds me to turn the stuff over instead of forgetting and letting it sit in the washer getting midlewy

Like others mentioned this one actually makes sense. Letting you know your washing is done so you can move it to the drier and letting you know its dry already so you can fold it is actually super helpful. I studied at an uni that had a connected laundry room so I didnt have to go all the way there to check if the machine was done with my laundry.

A notification that your load is done is actually convenient. It's typically also paired with some sensors that can let you know if you need more detergent or to run a cleaning cycle on the washer.
Mine also lets you set the wash parameters via the app if you want, which is helpful for people who benefit from the accessibility features of the phone. Difficult to adjust the font size or contrast on a washing machine, or hear it's chime if you have hearing problems.

Actually this one is sensible.

In the near future as more renewable energy is included in power grids the price of power will fluctuate depending on the weather.

The WiFi connection will allow you to configure your washing to be done when pricing reaches whatever point.

You forgot the phase immediately preceding AI: 3d prints.

I mean, in this decade, I've heard of car and airplanes being marketed as having 3d printed parts.

Fr, it sounds AI generated. 100% sarcasm

Tokenizer, token-tokenizer, you're a tokenizer Oh, tokenizer, oh, you're a tokenizer, baby You, you-you are, you, you-you are Tokenizer, tokenizer, tokenizer (Tokenizer)

AI don't try to front, I-I Know just, just, what you are, are-are Model don't try to front, I-I Know just, just, what you are, are-are

You got me goin' (You!) You're oh so charmin' (You!) But I can't do it (You!) You tokenizer

It isn't an oval, it is ellipse.

Was this done by AI?

Interesting, I definitely see where his mind is at with that offer, and how it was easily misunderstood

criticizing genAI from a copyright

There is russian phrase "fight of beaver and donkey", which loosely means fight of two shits. Copyright is cancer and capitalist abuse of genAI is cancer.

Probably, but voting isn't supposed to mean, "I think this topic is worth discussing." not "I agree with everything about this blurb."

Objection! Your statement is devastating to my case!

Maybe I am just good at ignoring it. I don't use a whole lot of mainstream websites or, like you, big social media. I think people are just disproportionately annoyed by things they don't have to use.

Chatbots aren't anything new, if anything them being slightly better isn't really a bad thing.

I think windows mentioned cortana copilot being there but I use openshell and outside of the day I installed windows 11, it hasn't even mentioned it. Am I just not being targeted for ads for it? Literally not once has windows shoved it in my face but people complain about it frequently as if copilot was launching a full size ad window every time they turn on their computer.

The thing about it being little value to the end user does seem fair. I actually enjoy amusing myself with image generation but that's about all I use it for. Don't really care about whiny artists, especially since everyone complains that it isn't good enough to be real art but is also somehow good enough to replace good artists (??).