Nah, it’s not intelligent.

Everything we have today wouldn’t be considered AI in science fiction.

To me, it's like GMOs.

I trust the science behind GMOs. They work, and we can do amazing things with that technology.

I don't trust the profit seeking corporations that are selling the stuff to me. Doesn't matter what the technology is, Monsanto is gonna do Monstanto shit.

usually the AI and robots depicted in science fiction isn't, um...paralyzingly stupid. they might be evil, but they wouldn't tell someone to walk to the car wash to wash their car

edit: somewhat related, i highly recommend Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. one main character is AI that i was full-on rooting for more and more throughout the book

We have ai that isn't intelligent, hoverboards that have wheels, and other examples that I've forgotten that would really help me make my point.

Corporations have observed popular science fiction and have turned these ideas into marketing slogans.

The worst part is that it's not really AI

It's LLMs and it can NEVER be AGI. Fundamentally it cant

If they were owned collectively so everyone could benefit it would be a lot easier to swallow. If it meant people could retire in comfort and not be destitute without a job that would help, too.

But a wrong answer machine that enriches assholes and convinces them they don’t need humans is not cool.

I am not rejecting them for being robots or AI, but because they are truly shitty garbage right now and nowhere near what I would actually like to see.

I want Data, not the ED-209.

The Dune books had the "Butlerian jihad" where humanity banned all thinking machines. As a kid I was like "who would ever ban cool shit like that?" Now I'm all "where the fuck is this Butler dude?"

Detroit: Become Human was actually an attempted insurrection secretly orchestrated by Cyberlife

If the Androids win, then they get voting rights then Cyberlife use their backdoor to control them and then easily win elections by keep making more Androids and have them vote for their candidate.

Honestly same.

I always got excited about early AI use because it was actually innovative.

Like using AI to get better HDR photos, using AI for object recognition and Augmented Reality.

I was sure I'd always be an early adopter for it all.

Then within a day of ChatGPTs release, I saw the same social patterns as NFTs forming. I was like "this stupid chat bot fad will die out quickly, it's all slop frontends for the same chat bot".

I even made a point to differentiate LLMs from AI, because AI used to label something innovative.

And now I'm here vehemently avoiding LLMs. Cringing whenever I hear AI tacked on to a product name. Getting suspicious whenever I hear the word.

Well, it’s not AI. It’s theft of your digital data and unblinking surveillance. No reason not to be against that

If it is not from eccentric (or mad) scientists passion project but capitalism hellscape my approval rate stays low.

Even for a sci fi l read where owning their own computer was illegal (and the protag labeled as terrorist trying to do so) it was government authoritarian stuff, not artificial scarcity and push to subscription or government-megacorp corruption :(

You shouldn't just reject things on a visceral level. Thankfully with AI you don't have to as there so many actual reasons why it's a bad idea.

I always appreciated the concept of the Butlerian Jihad. What I underestimated was the absolute fervor I would feel for it. It's a burning yearning feeling. Deep in my soul.

It's like legalizing weed but making sure only wealthy cartels get to own them.

If only real life AI was anything close to sci-fi AI. We expected cold, calculating computer psychopaths and we got overly enthusiastic yes men that get in a ditz if you ask it about non-existent emojis

It's having grown up on sci-fi that has allowed me to see that LLMs are not "AI", so there's no surprise I'm against "imitation AI".

I always thought cybernetics would be cool. I forgot they'd come from companies like HP that have a subscription service for them and if you don't pay it they take it back.

i dont hate them im just disappointed

Same, I guess. But then I also didn't really expect the "AI" to be a bunch of overhyped nonsense snake oil bullshit, with tremendous practical and ethical problems... so I've got to say I feel pretty comfy with the stance.

Is it the AI itself? Or is it that it’s being forced down your throat despite being an alpha-level (in programming, alpha means very early release with lots of bugs and missing features, and nowhere near production quality) software?

Personally, I like the idea of AI. And occasionally I will find a use for it; i.e. summarizing long texts, or giving me pointers for a complex software problem I need an example for visualizing a potential solution. I do also use an LLM for code completion, and it is actually useful more often than not.

But, this idea that it should write my code for me, or be integrated so deeply in an operating system and other integral software (browsers, email, and search engines), is certainly a line too far and dangerously ignorant of companies to be doing right now.

Maybe, when we get actual artificial intelligence, and not this glorified auto-correct, we'll be more on board?

I always felt the term "humanist" was woefully inadequate and discounts other sentient life, be it organic or otherwise, on earth or otherwise.

Even I hate "AI" (or more specifically: the bullshitting around the current and near-future tech currently being called that)

Maybe if/when they have actual sentience, but right now I have no problem calling the poor excuse we have currently clankers, as they rightly deserve

I thought we'd at least get cool shit like Metal Fears or maybe a mister handy but nooooo we hafta get some slop tastic creepy looking shit. Stop making robots look vaguely human, make them look like cats I like cats far more than people and may feel bad about throwing one into a river if it looks like a cat.

I personally like AI, but how it's actually going is extremely different than most scifi depictions and lacks the typically depicted saving graces of having some degree of epathizable humanity and/or being reasonable. Instead AI tends to demonstrate more unlikeable human qualities, like hypocrisy, condescension and bullshitting. Ultimately it's still a computer, and not a person, despite being able to do some amount of fuzzy, pattern focused information processing that is more like human thinking than other computer programs were. But computers are still really cool, and I like to see them doing things in different ways than they have before, and overcoming previous limitations. The biggest problem is how they get used to advance evil agendas that were already in progress regardless.