diezl97
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I don't want your g-d- AI features! When I do I will ask for them. Meanwhile, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF (*cough* MICROSOFT *cough*)
Aug 16, 2024 5:44 PM
diezl97
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I don't want your g-d- AI features! When I do I will ask for them. Meanwhile, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF (*cough* MICROSOFT *cough*)
STGxDante
A.I. is a buzz word for share holders. It will quiet down. We actually had an a.i. boom similar to this in the 90's albeit technology is actually closer to making it a reality now.
cbale2000
They went and installed co-pilot on my Windows 10 PC the other day, and the first thing I did was uninstall it.
ApothecaryGrant
Typical tech boom bullcrap. Executives everywhere bite down on the marketing hook, line & sinker. They put it everywhere, implement it whether it's necessary or not, fire their workforce under the belief that running leaner is better, then they crash and burn when they realize that the technology doesn't do what the marketing team said it would. Because they listened to the marketers and not the friggin engineers.
WeatherWiz
It’s not even real AI, it’s just LLMs and algorithms.
SomeDetroitGuy
It should be obvious by now that what we decided in 2024 to call "AI" is completely worthless garbage.
someguy7734206
In a way, I predict that something similar to the dotcom crash may happen in the near future with AI. We're now in the hype phase where AI is being heavily invested into and everyone is shoving AI everywhere they possibly can; most of these investments will go nowhere when the hype inevitably dies down. But make no mistake: like the internet before it, AI is not going away any time soon. It has already proven very useful in committing egregious privacy violations, manipulation, and profiteering.
berlinson
I work for Microsoft Advertising, I'm going to be out of a job pretty soon.
VitaminMarc
GenshiV
Don't worry, they'll all start charging money soon & then you'll have to find ways to both stop the subscription AND avoid using them!
nunyabidnesstwats
The Samsung one is kinda cool for like googling what that bird or tree is. And translating stuff. Haven't really done anything else with it though.
ShadeMeadowsArt
AI = No Buy
digiorno88
The other thing they're pushing is 2FA, which doesn't really solve the security problem, just puts more steps into logging in for everything
nihiltres
2FA is better security … but it’s also far better *tracking* for certain implementations because they get to correlate your phone/browser/app with your username. Most people own exactly one smartphone, so it helps isolate unique persons from one another.
Redyls
them: if you want us to stop. please use our AI tool to unsubscribe and discontinue service! (but first its going to give you the runaround)
cunninglinguist85
cryborg
TheSmallTennisRaquetUsedToStunFlies
An now... Enter the Chinese! My company wants to allow our meetings to be recorded and uploaded to AI... That's my intellectual property.
al3xinw0nderland0000
https://linuxmint.com
Be free my friends
ComicSansHumor
ML engineer here. I'd really like them to stop doing it, too. The technology is amazing... with the right use case. Companies have adopted a "the problems of tomorrow: today!" approach and have found a "solution" begging for a problem. It's like a century ago when gellatin became publicly available and we got all those awful recipes as everyone started to make disgusting beef gelatin and mayonnaise casseroles. This is that, but with AI/ML models.
DigitalHare
DigitalHare
CacklingOctopus
Oh, I get it!! You assign this to a button, and the "AI" decides whether each press should be a left click, right click, scroll, or put your PC to sleep!
Brilliant. And completely necessary!
jasondeslin
"AI" is a fantastic tool to help people accomplish more. It isn't a replacement for skill or creativity. The wealthy age so fucking incompetent that they can't understand why competence matters. As they prove every time they downsize.
meauho
I've used a text-to-speech program for years. About 1 of every 1000 words was wrong. Then they added AI and now one out of every 10 to 15 words is wrong (if it even gets the sentence correct at all). My hands shake pretty bad but sometimes it's faster to type than it is to correct the AI screw-ups
someguy7734206
Do you mean speech-to-text? Text-to-speech is when you type out words and an artificial voice reads them out loud.
meauho
I acting in an alley said speech to text but I also didn't bother too make any correlations so it would post what I wanted instead of whatever it wants to pissed
richardstinks
I would get cold calls from AI sales people trying to shoehorn it into the business. There was no place for it. They didn't even know WHAT the store was about, they usually had to ask, but they were sure AI would help (according to their script).
ArkoneAxon
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/sI1SLHEC98I
PobbitBreakers
you have a business, so you have money, and they want some of that.
Narwhilian
As someone who works as a data scientist and AI engineer... We also don't want (or see the need for) all of these needless AI features. We don't want to be adding them but executives do.
Actual AI development is super interesting but right now we are being forced to use cool technology in the most boring way possible normally just to increase clicks / CTR....
ComicSansHumor
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Narwhilian
BumpusMcPhumpusAngeletes
We’ve invented a mechanical idiot who’s always wrong and who destroys the environment just to power itself. “Brilliant!” Said every company ever, “I’ll have some of that!”
WoopDeFrickenDoo
"and it means I can fire everybody?" :flyhands:
spookyactionatadistance
I agree that not everything needs the inclusion of AI but to say it's always wrong is just well, wrong. There are so many valid applications, as a dev it is now my default for documentation, any boilerplate, basic loops, algorithm optimization, creating mixins and nested loops from a non nested scss file. We also developed a pre analysis engine that enables clients to generate synthesis of reports based on our real analysis. It uses NLP and LLM but is confined to information that is ours and
spookyactionatadistance
2) created by us but uses its own knowledge base for general context. I have a visually impaired friend who has been using it to describe images he just took. So lets say he's trying on clothes it will tell him the color, the fit, the color coordination, it will read the label and tell him the price.
Mynamedoesntmatteronlylifematters
yazheirx
If it can be calculated AI has no business in that software. If it must be estimated AI/ML might provide an improved experience.
I have been working at a small parcel shipping software company for a very long time. Everyone asks when we will add AI.
Why would you try to estimate/predict the shipping costs of a package when you can calculate to the, penny, how much it will cost. Is it an easy calculation - no, but any accountant will tell you costs must be calculated properly.
IllegalDuckling
AI is so fucking amazing, but damn do people use it wrong
Filolial
I started using it somewhat like a more exact search engine, when I am searching for something very specific having to open 10+ sites is annoying, sometimes what I want is on like page 75 and it starts you on page 1, they aggressively want you to accept cookies, sometimes things are locked in paid articles or buried in useless filler content. And all the sites want to collect your data. Or I ask copilot, and it instantly answers with sources listed...
IllegalDuckling
As long as you're sure that the info is correct. I found that language models often start to "hallucinate" when they don't know something, aka they start making shit up while sounding confident, since it wasn't made for this
Filolial
I barely use it, as I generally have no use for it. But when I do, copilot actually lists sources which I can check out, instead of taking the AI's word for it. I modtly use it to solve riddles, a phone game I play has weekly riddles and I just want the rewards xD
taez555
I really hope we don't look back at this as the good old days when it wasn't subscription based and included a pop up asking how much you'd like to tip.
WoopDeFrickenDoo
I have read your comment would you like to tip? Choose one: 15 25 30 35%
taez555
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
This is actually too funny
WoopDeFrickenDoo
Alurkerforcedtologin
Keep boycotting and refuse to buy anything labeled as AI or AI powered. Eventually these companies will go bankrupt because training and operating these AI models is ruinously expensive.
Junktrunkjunkie
The only AI feature is collecting your data
DrFlukeHawkins
Or when we hit them with environmental requirements. Y'all are consuming water and power at a scale that's stupid.
ElmyrDeHory
you won't stop the development of AI no matter how much you want it. but yes, you can stop the cunning of some corporations, aimed at stealing money or attention from the not very clever or very lazy. Only here, believe me, there are thousands of more important things than AI. you pay attention to AI because it is new. And where are the pseudo medicines, deceived food, manipulations in the media, lies of politicians, foundations subsidized to manipulate etc.
crazyspelling
Never talk to me or my questionable online diet pills ever again. (/s)
MattTheImperialRadarTechnician
Get Captchas wrong on purpose, particularily ones about stoplights.
Alurkerforcedtologin
"please identify the traffic light." "please identify the bicycle, time is a factor, human."
nobodyspecial995
Nowadays they're just renaming common features as AI features. I saw a wifi router that claimed it was using AI to switch bands to find the best Wi-Fi in your house. I saw a computer monitor claim that they had an AI webcam that could track you around the room, even though we've had that feature for 10 years. It wasn't day I then, it isn't now.
sqeewew
I'm doing my part by forcing it to write smut for me
Ruderali
I had a python script that could do that back in 08
lildude52ca
Well the webcam bit... now they use AI to track and log who you are and what you're doing. not just where a body is in the room
hairbearbunch66
And it has backfired. Companies are seeing products not sell when labeled AI. Fortune 500 CEOs are starting to see AI as a money loser.
TheSmallTennisRaquetUsedToStunFlies
That's BC AI is just the application of logic to circumstances. They're stretching the truth but not entirely lying
crazyspelling
I had an AI in Microsoft Word back in the 90's that could tell if I was trying to write a letter and offer me assistance. RIP Clippy.
malakim
Worse. They rename blatant spyware they use to build profiles on you as AI. That fucking Windows11 feature that takes screenshots every few seconds? Would have been decried as absolute security nightmare and terrible a couple of years back. Now its just "lol, its AI, bro".
DecapodianSaysWoopWoopWoopWoop
Few years ago everything was 'intelligent'. It's just another buzzword like turbo, 2000, millenium etc.
donutposse11337
Yeah, just like a few years ago everything was an “algorithm”
MightyIink
I'll never forget that cooler master "ai thermal paste" that's deep in my memories now as one of the dumbest things I've seen in my life.
DavidBrooker
Did 'AI' at least stand for something else? Like, 'advanced interface' or something? That would still be bullshit trying to cash in on a buzzword, but at least it isn't just lying straight to your face.
DdCno1
They may have used machine learning during the product's development. This is not a new thing at all, but companies have been advertising this more in recent years.
Cheseit
I saw a gluten free tennis racket at big 5. Gluten free was plastered on the front the size as the brand.
diezl97
lol that's just embarrassing. What is it made of nanomachines or some other fictional substance like that?
Aksuuuh
If you ask it a question about the Ancient Greece, it tells you not to use it and that you should go buy some that is not outdated
sambaah05
AI can absolutely be used to inform switching bands. Will it do better than a normal, if available and connection strength > X, switch, manual logic? Who knows. But AI can absolutely be used for that. AI could map your house and determine which band is best for certain locations, by device. That's something you'd ask AI to do, not something a programmer would want to program manually. But again, would that really improve your experience? We'd need to see data on the performance of that AI.
TheFuckfaceWhisperer
Switching bands automatically is why your wifi sucks. Do a scan, pick the least congested channel, and stick with it. It's an RTS/CTS signal. Automatically switching bands hurts everyone's signal within range. Use 1, 6, or 11 (or 13 if you're in Japan) and that's it.
sambaah05
AI can optimize that for everyone. The "dumb" logic we have now contributes to the issues you are eluding too. AI can make sure it's optimized for all users. That's why I said, AI can optimize, by device, in my initial comment.
crazyspelling
I took an AI class 20+ years ago and remember a notorious quote, "AI is the second best way of solving every computing problem." I think that was charitable, I'd say it's more like 3rd or 4th now.
sambaah05
I work in marketing, really huge days sets. Nothing a single analyst, or even a team of analysts can pour through. AI is absolutely revolutionizing marketing data, and helping to drive business value. It's also doing great things in healthcare, able to identify cancer and other diseases, before a doctor normally can. In some cases it's not beneficial. But in some cases it's absolutely the best way to solve a problem. The challenge is understanding the difference.
crazyspelling
Thank you for reminding me of at least one positive use case. As for my marketing data, I think I'd have preferred the inefficiency for a little longer.
Thisisabigmistake
Why do I need AI for my PDF? It was converted from Word
TK421isAFK
And sign-ins. No, I do not want to "sign in for a better experience" Lowe's/Home Depot/Target/PornHub/whatever.
modus0
But AI will convert it *better*. /s
crazyspelling
Hey, if AI can tell the difference between "m" and "rm" in scanned documents, I'll take it in PDF form. Bonus points if it can figure out to strip headers, footers and margins when it exports.
crazyspelling
*rn
KainLamond
Let me fix that for you *m
crazyspelling
I laughed.