Just because you can use hammers to hurt people doesn't mean we should ban all hammers.
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And just because people keep hammering screws doesn't mean hammers aren't useful.
No Ai without UBI. Should have started UBI at least at the industrial revolution.
The current technology is a dead end, and we need to go back to the drawing board with it.
But before we can do that, we need to sell the current version, because we lost a lot of money on it....
AI is a tool. Misuse it and it sucks.
under capitalism every tool is a tool for capitalism and will be misused.
That's right.
AI is a tool to transfer even more wealth, under the current conditions.
GenAIs are a mistake, but corps decided to stuff billions into it, and they want their money back.
Sounds like "the purpose of the system is what it does." Every invention that gets funding does that. I watched the development of ML techniques over the last decade or so; none of the researchers developing AI would have said that was the purpose. They had much loftier hopes for AI.
Yet the owners don't care.
I hate that it's pushed as a holy grail.
You can also misuse it and it sucks (NSFW).
requiring state of the art GPU for a flesh light Is some kind of Futurama joke that i missed because I never watched Futurama.
LLMs seem to be great for translations and... transcriptions?
I know Google sucks, but I will give a little credit to the newer Pixels' "Circle to Search" feature. It's nice to pull up an image and just circle search it and see where it came from, or the context behind it, etc etc.
Circle Search and the two you mention are probably the only actually useful things to come out of AI so far.
They really are! We should use tools for what they are good at and not try to cram AI into everything. Something something hammer, nail, right?
Yes. It's normal human behaviour. There is a hype, then a bubble, then... normalization.
Multimedia, keychain, blue LEDs, curved LCD screens, LLMs,... One of them is way less useful than the others.; P
Summary stuff works really well too - I like to be able to bookmark a page and have tags/brief summary auto-gen'd
Most of the time these abstracts are fine. But I'm wary of it because of the cases where it doesn't. :)
yeah, but for my personal bookmarks a hallucination is not a big deal, not exactly mission-critical lol
Like everything else since the advent of harnessing fire, it’s a double edged sword that can be used for good and evil.
I used to be excited for AI advancements 3 years ago. Now the situation is just trash. Good times when generating a Godzilla farting fire on a city was fun and cool
AI sucks, but HR sent me some forms to fill in and I would rather a shitty corpospeak AI response than putting effort into answering it myself.
While AI offers transformative potential, significant criticisms highlight its drawbacks. Current systems often perpetuate biases embedded in training data, leading to discriminatory outcomes in hiring, law enforcement, and lending. The environmental cost of training large models—like massive energy consumption and carbon emissions—raises sustainability concerns. Automation driven by AI threatens job displacement, exacerbating economic inequality, while opaque "black-box" algorithms undermine accountability in critical domains like healthcare or criminal justice. Privacy erosion, through pervasive surveillance and data exploitation, further fuels distrust. Though AI’s capabilities are impressive, its unchecked deployment risks deepening societal inequities and prioritizing efficiency over ethical considerations.
Ai sucks