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I use AI as a tool. AI should be a tool to help with job, not to take jobs. Same as calculator. Yep people will be able to code faster with AIs help, so that might mean less demand, at least for IT. But u still gotta know what the exact prompt u need to ask
LLMs != AI
LLMs strict subset of AI
Pls be a bit more specific about what you hate about the wide field of AI. Otherwise it's almost like saying you hate computers, because they can run applications that you don't like.
I used to work in a software architecture team that used AI to write retrospectives, and upcoming projects, and everything needed to have a positive spin, that sounds good but mean nothing.
Extra funny when I find out people use AI to summarize it. So the comical cycle of bullet points to text and back again is real.
I had enough working at the company when my team was working on the new "fantastic" platform, cut corners to reach the deadline on something that will not be used by anyone... and its being built for the explicit purpose of making a better development and working environment.
Using AI is telling people they shouldn't care about your IP because you clearly don't care about theirs when it passes through the AI lens.
Stop making using AI sound based
i use AI every day in my daily work, it writes my emails, performance reviews, project updates etc.
.....and yeah, that checks out!
How about AI that runs as part of a SaaS app? Thts what I think about when I think commercial uses...
Peoples are lazy when they using calculators!
It's completely clownshit to think that you're going to be able to differentiate AI within 2 years. Maybe less than that. Veo2 is insane.
I think this problem will get worse because many websites that's used for "your own research" will lose human traffic to watch ads and more bots just scraping their data, reducing motivation to keep the websites running. Most people just take the least resistant path so AI search will be the default soon I think
Yes, I hate this timeline
Eventually they will pay AI companies to integrate advertisements into the llm's outputs.
Omg I can see it happening. Instead of annoying intrusive ads, this new type will be so natural as if your close friend is suggesting it.
More dystopian future. Yes we need it /s
It's so annoying because you're correct. I'm finding it harder and harder to use a search engine for things. Hell, the web in general is becoming unusable. It's all shit.
rant
here's my pesonal gripe. Imagine looking for a solution to a problem and find a reddit thread in your search engine of choice. Wording in the description seems to match your exact issue and it's one of the first results. You click on it and...
What i'd do to that smug fuck if I ever got my hands on him aside, me behind a VPN and deleted reddit account can't find the answer. But i can go to chatgpt without logging in to answer my fucking queries and it does it with more efficiency than looking at random sites for things, which most of the time are just sloppy shitty mirrors of Stack Overflow or Quora that BLATANTLY copy content from those websites and just use slightly better SEO...
Also, reddit did this in because of the API shit they pulled. AND THEN THEY SOLD FUCKING ACCESS TO GOOGLE. So me, a fucking person (as far as I know anyway), isn't privileged enough to view the fucking crumbs of information that google just fucking gobbles on a daily basis. Fuck that. This is a move that makes me feel less important than my fucking roomba.
I just feel so mad. I want the old web back. I just want my duckduckgo to work well.
Sorry for the rant.
I ordered some well rated concert ear protection from the maker's website. The order waited weeks to ship after a label was printed and likely forgotten. I went to find a place to call or contact a human there, all they had was a self-described AI chat robot that just talked down to me condescendingly. It simply would not believe my experience.
I eventually got the ear protection but I won't be buying from them again. Can't even staff some folks to check email. I eventually found their PR email address but even that was outsourced to a PR firm that never got back to me. Utter shit, AI.
Never thought about ear protection for concerts, sounds cool. I'll have to look into other options though, if anyone has any recommendations, let me know
A number of companies make "tuned" ear plugs to allow some sound through with a desired frequency curve, but reduce SPL to safe levels. I've used Etymotic, which sound great but I personally like a little more reduction. Alpine which I thought had enough reduction but too much coloring, and I settled on Earpeace, for like $25 on-line. Silicone, re-usable and easy to clean and they come with three filters to swap in or out depending on your needs / tastes.
I'm glad you mentioned the company directly as I also want to steer clear of companies like this.
That would've been such an easy disputed charge and get the plugs somewhere else. I'm not wasting a second on something like that, just telling my credit card company they didn't uphold their end of the deal, and that's that. I will lose hearing out of spite if this happened to me, because I'm an idiot.
I’ll waste a few moments. It becomes a puzzle. Assuming you managed to make it through the maze, you retrospectively analyze where would 99% of the country have dropped out of the flow and given up?
Then it’s an email to the attorney general if necessary! (I mean that’s been rare but when something is egregious)
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Absolutely. Cc dispute is an under-used method of recourse.
Alright I don’t like the direction of AI same as the next person, but this is a pretty fucking wild stance. There are multiple valid applications of AI that I’ve implemented myself: LTV estimation, document summary / search / categorization, fraud detection, clustering and scoring, video and audio recommendations... "Using AI” is not the problem, "AI charlatan-ing" is. Or in this guy’s case, "wholesale anti-AI stanning". Shoehorning AI into everything is admittedly a waste, but to write off the entirety of a very broad category (AI) is just silly.
I have ADHD and I have to ask A LOT of questions to get my brain around concepts sometimes, often cause I need to understand fringe cases before it "clicks", AI has been so fucking helpful to be able to just copy a line from a textbook and say "I'm not sure what they meen by this, can you clarify" or "it says this, but also this, aren't these two conflicting?" and having it explain has been a game changer for me. I still have to be sure to have my bullshit radar on, but thats solved by actually reading to understand and not just taking the answer as is. In fact, scrutinizing the answer against what I've learned and asking further questions has felt like its made me more engaged with the material.
Most issues with AI are issues with capitalism.
Congratulations to the person who downvoted this
They use a tool to improve their life?! Screw them!
Here’s hoping over the next few years we see little baby-sized language models running on laptops entirely devour the big tech AI companies, and that those models are not only open source but ethically trained. I think that will change this community here.
I get why they’re absolutist (AI sucks for many humans today) but above your post as well you see so much drive-by downvoting, which will obviously chill discussion.
I don't think AI is actually that good at summarizing. It doesn't understand the text and is prone to hallucinate. I wouldn't trust an AI summary for anything important.
Also search just seems like overkill. If I type in "population of london", i just want to be taken to a reputable site like wikipedia. I don't want a guessing machine to tell me.
Other use cases maybe. But there are so many poor uses of AI, it's hard to take any of it seriously.
I don’t think AI is actually that good at summarizing. It doesn’t understand the text and is prone to hallucinate. I wouldn’t trust an AI summary for anything important.
This right here. Whenever I've tried using an LLM to summarize, I spent more time fact-checking it (and finding the inevitable misunderstandings and outright hallucinations—they're always there for anything of substance!) than I'd spend writing my own damned summary.
There is, however, one use case I've found where LLMs work better than alternatives ... provided you do due diligence. To put it bluntly, Google Translate and its ilk of similar slop from Bing, Baidu, etc. suck. They are god-awful at translation of anything but straightforward technical writing or the most tediously dull prose. LLMs are far better translators (and can be instructed to highlight cultural artifacts, possible transcription errors, etc.) ...
... as long as you back-translate in a separate session to check for hallucination.
Oh, and Google Translate-style translators really suck at Classical Chinese. LLMs do much better (provided you do the back-translation check for hallucination).
If I understand how AI works (predictive models), kinda seems perfectly suited for translating text. Also exactly how I have been using it with Gemini, translate all the memes in ich_iel 🤣. Unironically it works really well, and the only ones that aren't understandable are cultural not linguistic.
You just have to be careful with hallucination. That backtranslation step is needed. The more alien the language is to English, the more prone to hallucination it is.
Oh that's the best part, since it's memes honestly never know if it's even meant to be completely sensible. So even if it does hallucinate, just adds a bit of spice 🤌🤌
I also like the thought that probably billions was spent to make something that is best suited for deep frying memes
Its just a statistics game. When 99% of stuff that uses or advertises the use of "AI" is garbage, then having a mental heuristic that filters those out is very effective. Yes you will miss those 1% of useful things, but thats not really an issue for most people. If you need it you can still look for it.