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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I hate the ones where they have things made out of unexpected materials like jello keyboard. It they have marbles or whatever and they spread it on toast as is gets smashed like jam.

Like, how is that supposed to impress anyone?

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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Or the: "Hey Gemini move my 4 o clock"

First of all, that's as easy as dragging the appointment to a different place in the calendar which takes less time and shows you what other stuff you have going on. Second of all, rude! Don't just move the appointment. At least call or ping me on whatever chat system we both use. Not because it's required, but it's good to treat other people as actual human beings instead of you being a Karen Main Character. Third of all, move it where? When are you going to have the appointment? It's AI, not fucking magic, but the people who want your dollar probably want you to think it is magic.

Those commercials are the worst. If this is the best idealized scenario they can come up with, the product must be real shit.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We had a presentation at work that the VPs were so proud of and proclaimed to be the future of business with AI. Ready? Are you sure? The pure vision involved is staggering, and I want you to be prepared for it. Ok, here goes:

Here's the scenario... A buyer gets an email from another employee to buy something for the business. The buyer opens an AI bot and tells it to search their email for purchase requests. The AI identifies which emails are likely purchase requests. The buyer then asks the AI to see the first one. It is a purchase request! Hooray! The AI sees that the amount is over a certain dollar amount. It asks, "Do you want to forward it to your manager for approval?" "Why, yes, thank you!" It then sends a kindly worded email on their behalf to their manager. Eventually, the manager replies and the next time the buyer opens their AI chatbot it notices the response and interprets the response as an approval. "Would you like to process this purchase request?" "Yes please, almighty chat bot!" The application then copies what it thinks are the relevant data (carefully formatted for the success of the demo, of course) into a web form open in a browser window for the buyer to submit to the purchasing system.

Mid-six figure executives of this fortune 100 company, some with C__ in their titles, applauded. They shook hands. They beamed and professed the future was here and we were on the forefront of it.

Not a single Vice President in this "technology company" bothered asking WHY THE FUCK WE WERE MAKING PURCHASE REQUESTS BY FUCKING EMAIL. Like, maybe we should go back to 1999 and master digital workflows first? Or at this point even pay some consultant hacks to implement some of that RPA crack they were peddling a decade before that we dropped $10M on? Or maybe, maybe, take Microsoft's dick out of our mouths long enough to ask whether ANY of this makes sense!

The future has arrived. This bubble can't pop soon enough.

[–] CausticFlames@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This was the single funniest thing I've read all week. Thank you

At my place of work I sometimes come across tickets for users in the company asking for access to certain paid AI tools, with excuses like: "Access to chatGPT to more effectively send emails to clients" and

"Need AI image generation for blog update" even though we have an ENTIRE fucking art department.

It makes me laugh but it also makes me sad. I mark them as low priority and move on to other shit.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I don't know how the Onion survives today. You can't make this shit up, it would be too absurd.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I guarantee you the classic Google Assistant could've done the same. I switched back to it on my phone because, at least when they switched it to Gemini, it couldn't send texts. I often old down the assistant button on my phone (basically the same as "hey Google" voice prompt but I don't have that enabled) and say "Text (wife name)" and it'll say, "sure, what's the message." And you dictate to it. But Gemini? It was like "I can't do that 🥺" like... Then why the fuck are you here? But I guess it can do stuff like that now. I just can't imagine why they'd swap the hands free assistant to something that can't do the things you normally want to do hands free. Because immediately after I was like "call (wife's name)" and again it was like "I can't 🥺🥺🥺"

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Where are all of you seeing ads anywhere?

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 points 23 hours ago (6 children)
[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago

try adaway/trackercontrol/rethinkdns or luckypatcher

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago

Or you could just pay for boost the free version has ads that's not really surprising.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

Look up Blockada on F-Droid, it will save you from those. I think it also has a Google Play version, but I can't vouch for that one working as intended

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's funny because it's the same ads from the first wave of voice assistants. This AI stuff sure is revolutionary eh

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago

Lmao yes.

But now you can talk to your phone! Yeah it could already do that. But now it can misunderstand you and fuck up what you wanted it to do! Jup already did that as well. But now it can misunderstand you in new and mysterious ways! You son of a bitch, I'm in

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The first public demo of Siri back when the iPhone 4S launched is more impressive than most AI commercials.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's your choice not to use a tool. But don't blame the tool because you refuse to see it's use. This type of meme is no different then the bullshit I see with republican memes. It's some made up fantasy placating your own bias.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I'm going to be real honest here. I often need someone to tell me what to eat. The decision can be too much of an obstacle, especially when I'm hungry.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We technically solved this problem years ago:

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They should make this but with actual food instead of answers. Shake up the Magic Ate Ball and it says a meal. I'd buy that.

[–] RomeCallen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had to look it up to be sure that's not real. How is it not fkn real? What a great idea!

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[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You can make a list of 20 options and roll a d20 dice.

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[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So you ask the thing with no taste buds?

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 20 hours ago

It doesn't need to be a good answer. It just needs to be an answer.

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[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago

My favourite one is where a guy repairs a car and asks how to get those pesky screws off. With a screwdriver says Gemini and the guy is just impressed with the smart answer.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Okay, but with Sora 2, consider that you can...

Make SpongeBob cosplay as Hitler and create a video of Pikachu shoplifting pokeballs.

Think about how much value that ads.

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