Very good and entertaining article
To a layperson, at least, it seems that consumer technology has long since entered an era of solutions in search of problems – particularly troubling at a time when the world is facing so many genuinely intractable crises. As entertaining as it is to watch our tech overlords flounder on stage, it raises bigger questions, such as: who exactly asked for this, beyond the billionaires cashing in? And: can we just not?
“can we just not?”
I feel this deep in my soul. Every day. Multiple times a day.
It’s bleak because of how hard this stuff is being pushed.
I got to laugh off the Metaverse because it flopped long before it could be forced down my throat. I looked askance at Crypto, but broadly avoided it without consequence. Now I’ve vendors injecting AI into their tech support service, and it isn’t something I can wave away anymore.
I’ve seen several “creators” pointing to AI overviews as “evidence” of things without ever fact-checking them (because if you were interested in facts you wouldn’t bother with them anyway). I have family and friends send me AI-generated bullshit day in and day out.
It’s especially infuriating when they send me “but ChatGPT says…” about something I’m literally an expert in. Like I do this all day every day and you’re taking the word of a chatbot over me.
I hate when people do that. The robot is wrong! All the freaking time.
Talked to a guy recently that claimed ChatGPT has “an IQ of over 300”. Laughed hard, he got mad at me laughing.
Ask him how many "R"s are in Strawberry
Look, two Rs is accurate as long as you accept that AI knows ‘what you really mean’ and you should have just prompted better.
That drives me mad. “Oh, you don’t find AI that useful for developement? You should learn how to talk to it.”. Wasn’t that the point, that it would understand me?
Meta is garbage. Just like Google was garbage when I worked there. The people I know working there are fart sniffers. They have their heads so far up their own asses.
See their hiring process.
Zuckerberg will hail anything if he thinks it’ll add to his money and power.
I wanted to comment on another post that had a video show how chatGPT screwed up a basic recipe live…
And now this. You know what this reminds me of? That incident back in the 90s when Bill Gates was presenting Windows 98 to the world and his OS bluescreened on live TV. No one who saw it or heard of it at that time ever forgot about it.
But the flaws of windows 98 were hammered out fairly quickly and it was a decent system (I hung onto it longer than most since it ran many 90s windows games much better than XP for obvious reasons).
With this? Despite far more money poured onto this than any OS ever had they have produced remarkably few decent results.
Funny thing is, it was actually the device they connected that was faulty, the build of Windows they were using just didn’t handle that failure condition at the time.
MS at least learnt that lesson (for the most part), actually test things first.
Tesla’s entire business model (under Elon) was to use the users as guinea pigs for testing.
God I wish this dork would fuck off already, along with the rest of the AI bullshit currently making investors and other business-wankers the world over cum themselves dry. It’s fucking embarrassing.
I do not understand why they simply don’t just copy Zuckerberg’s own AI. I know he isn’t 100% perfectly like a human, but still closer than this LLM shit. Is it the same problem as with Data in Star Trek and the person who built him died without leaving any notes?
They do. That’s why it’s called an LLM (Lizard Language Model).
Maybe be can ask the twins for help since he stole their entire platform anyways lol! What a douche!
