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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI is cocomelon for adult children

[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cloth mother

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

why the fuck are these people so intent on my "embracing" AI? this and the Japanese government post too. why do they care?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's 4ir shit (4th industrial revolution). AI has been sold as the next industrial revolution in production and governments are sincerely bought into the idea that it needs to be implemented into all aspects of the economy in order to keep up with opponents doing the same.

They see populations reluctant to embrace it as the reason for lacking the productivity games it's supposed to provide when in reality the technology just does not provide those productivity gains outside of specific niche things like healthcare where AI can definitely play an excellent role in patient diagnosis and pharmacy.

They don't realise they've been lied to yet. Governments will be last to realise.

[–] Poof@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

It can be used to vastly empower the surveillance state and manipulations (propaganda/marketing). It can also be used in automating drone strikes (murder). It's a tool to further empower the owning class and consolidate power upwards letting a smaller number of people project more power. I believe ai is also being used as a proxy so government and corporations can deny accountability. It has some actually good uses in science but I don't think that's where the interest lies.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They believe Marc Andreessen when he says

We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

Me: Marc, can we have an understanding of social murder?

Marc: We have an understanding of social murder at home.

The understanding of social murder at home:

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

They need you to use it to keep their investments sound.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Rich people imagine AI will allow them to finally fulfill their dream of accumulating value without having to pay a worker. It doesn't actually work that way, but like all capitalists they're dumb idealists.

[–] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

New paradox baffles top Harvard researchers: the more people understand capitalism, the more they embrace socialism.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

My friend, who is a self titulated capitalist, was mocking me like "oh looks who is embracing capitalism" because I got myself a promotion and a 30% rise telling my boss I was applying to a position in other department and I was like bitch getting more of my surplus value is the most socialist thing I can do in my position.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

"oh looks who is embracing capitalism"

I like how one hexbear user put it:

socialism is not identity politics but with class aesthetics.

Liberals are fundamentally unable to comprehend this. Leftism not a lifestyle, it's not a set of arbitrary rules individuals must follow. It's a strawman embraced by every capitalist society on Earth.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

You claim to be communist and yet you work. Curious!

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are allergic to the word "contradiction"

[–] SpanishSpaceAgency@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But it isn't even a contradiction. The more you understand how it works the less you like it. Once you've peeked behind the curtain you are aware the great and powerful Oz is just smoke and mirrors and bullshit and you don't believe it's magic anymore. That's not contradictory that's just rational.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd argue only at that point can the AI actually be useful to you because you're aware of its inherent limitations and can just use it for the things you know it's good at, which is not that many things actually so yeah you end up using it way less.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah plenty of people like their fancy autocomplete

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Its not even auto complete. I tried running qwen3:8b param model on ollama and it just felt so tiring having to cajole the program into producing the output I want.

Everything was very underwhelming and could be done better by a 15 year old human personal assistant who actually likes programming.

AI is the supposed bourgeois escape hatch for starving and mistreating workers when the reality of austerity hits them fast and no one is able to work.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

It's good at replacing junior engineers across the industry!

When there's a shortage across all sectors in 10 years all these CEOs will wondee why that is, when they've only been hiring people with 10+ years of experience since before OpenAI was a company.

It's also made academia worthless. The junior engineers we do hire are grossly incompetent. Whenever you ask them to research something they'll send you a copy-paste from ChatGPT where they obviously just pasted your question into the prompt. Asking them to edit a report is also just thrown onto an LLM, pasting the output with m-dashes and all.

They can only be blamed for so much though, academia in Amerikkka turned into just an obstacle to enter the workforce (in my opinion, just a barrier of entry to keep poor people poor while the rich can afford to purchase their "qualifications".)

There was a whole scandal at my state college because professors would not fail students, making it functionally a classist pipeline in which having the means to pay for an education is really the only requirement to get a job in STEM. Most of the students don't have an interest in the subjects they're studying, they only do it for the ability to get a cushy job.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Models that you can run locally on reasonably priced consumer grade hardware are always going to be crap, you really need the beefy models that destroy the environment for it to be somewhat useful.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

porky-happy speech-l

No shade to you personally, just that it's really convenient that things work out this way.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah this whole thing is very very much convenient to Nvidia and data center companies lmao.

I still think they're incentivized to make the models more efficient as they could then squeeze out even more profit, it's just that it's a property of the technology itself that it doesn't really work well until you have bajillions of parameters.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

The more you understand how it works the less you like it.

That's the dialectic! There's a mutual antagonism between understanding AI and wanting to use AI.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

Every moment my hate grows in size and purity

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

Daycare for Adults

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

"Why is it that when people learn about [bad thing] they suddenly think it's bad?"

-Fucking Harvard

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

How come people are more eager to embrace something they think is a magic gnome capable of answering all questions and do all their work than they are of embracing something they know to be a statistical bullshit generator?

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A lot of work I have been doing recently has involved modernizing a codebase that is too old and bc I have the knowledge of what should be done I am able to just let an LLM rip 80% and guide it to fix the remaining 20. Have never used these chat/search bots for anything else

The code also isn't well documented or self-documenting so it's also really good at parsing related files and reading packages to figure out how they work for me way faster than searching the internet or guessing

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

The more water people drink, the less thirsty they are.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So this is paywalled? I can't just read their conclusions I guess.

How dare you question a billion dollar industry profiting off of %99 government funded research?