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[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Sure, but people seem to buy into that very buzz wordyness and ignore the usefulness of the technology as a whole because "ai bad."

[-] whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

True. Even I've been guilty of that at times. It's just hard right now to see the positives through the countless downsides and the fact that the biggest application we're moving towards seems to be taking value from talented people and putting it back into the pockets of companies that were already hoarding wealth and treating their workers like shit.

So usually when people say "AI is the next big thing", I say "Eh, idk how useful an automated idiot would be" because it's easier than getting into the weeds of the topic with someone who's probably not interested haha.

Edit: Exhibit A

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

There's some sampling bias at play because you don't hear about the less flashy examples. I use machine learning for particle physics, but there's no marketing nor outrage about it.

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