I got a christmas card from my company. As a part of the christmas greeting, they promoted AI, something to the extent of "We wish you a merry christmas, much like the growth of AI technologies within our company" or something like that.
Please no.
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That's so fucking weird wtf. Do you work for Elon Musk or something lmao
I work as a dev in an IT consulting company. My work includes zero AI development, but other parts of ghe company are embracing it.
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My thermostat hides no brainier features behind an "Ai" subscription. Switching off the heating when the weather will be warm that day doesn't need Ai... that's not even machine learning, that's a simple PID controller.
I'm so glad I switched to just home assistant and zigbee devices, and my radiators are dumb, so I could replace them with zigbee ones. Fuck making everything "smart" a subscription
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Even the supposed efficiency benefits of the nest basically come down to "if you leave the house and forget to turn the air down, we will do it for you automatically"
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AI is one of the most powerful tools available today, and as a heavy user, I’ve seen firsthand how transformative it can be. However, there’s a trend right now where companies are trying to force AI into everything, assuming they know the best way for you to use it. They’re focused on marketing to those who either aren’t using AI at all or are using it ineffectively, promising solutions that often fall short in practice.
Here’s the truth: the real magic of AI doesn’t come from adopting prepackaged solutions. It comes when you take the time to develop your own use cases, tailored to the unique problems you want to solve. AI isn’t a one-size-fits-all tool; its strength lies in its adaptability. When you shift your mindset from waiting for a product to deliver results to creatively using AI to tackle your specific challenges, it stops being just another tool and becomes genuinely life-changing.
So, don’t get caught up in the hype or promises of marketing tags. Start experimenting, learning, and building solutions that work for you. That’s when AI truly reaches its full potential.
I think there's specific industrial problems for which AI is indeed transformative.
Just one example that I'm aware of is the AI-accelerated nazca lines survey that revealed many more geoglyphs that we were not previously aware of.
However, this type of use case just isn't relevant to most people who's reliance on LLMs is "write an email to a client saying xyz" or "summarise this email that someone sent to me".
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I think of AI like I do apps: every company thinks they need an app now instead of just a website. They don't, but they'll sure as hell pay someone to develop an app that serves as a walled garden front end for their website. Most companies don't need AI for anything, and as you said: they are shoehorning it in anywhere they can without regard to whether it is effective or not.
One of the leading sources of enshitification.
Containerize everything!
Crypto everything!
NFT everything!
Metaverse everything!
This too shall pass.
Put a curved screen on everything, microwave your thanksgiving turkey, put EVERYTHING including hot dogs, ham, and olives in gelatin. Only useful things will have AI in them in the future and I have a hard time convincing the hardcore anti-ai crowd of that.
Docker: 😢
Docker is only useful in that many scenarios. Nowadays people make basic binaries like tar into a container, stating that it's a platform agnostic solution. Sometimes some people are just incompetent and only know docker pull as the only solution.
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What's wrong with containers?
I think the complaint is that apps are being designed with containerization in mind when they don't need it
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You're fooling yourself if you really think everyone hates it.
I think most can agree that AI has some great use cases, but I also think most people dont want AI in their damn toaster.
"But master, the toast is already burned, surely you-"
*Me, eyes glowering with a malevolence* "DOWN YOU GO."
"Master! Nooooo--!"
I saw an advert on the side of a truck the other day for an AI enhanced mattress, of all things!
10 years ago everything was "smart" now it's "AI".
Goddamn marketing people.
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I think we're running out of advancements that make life better, now all technology does is make production cheaper/increase shareholder value.
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I think AI is a great tool if used properly. However, it should be a background tool. The second you advertise it to the end consumer, it's going to be dogshit.
If someone asks me to build a sort-function for their table, I'm not gonna write an email: "Yes and I actually used radix sort for the table contents which makes it extremely fast and performant!!!". I'm writing: "Done".
The end consumer doesn't give a shit how it works, as long as it works.
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I was trying to take a photo of piece of jewellery in my hand tonight and accidentally activated my phone's AI. It threw up a big Paperclip-type message, "How can I help you?" I muttered "fuck off" as I stabbed at the back button. "I'm sorry you feel that way!" it said.
Yeah, I hate it. At least Paperclip didn't give snark.
All this needs to be a shit post is an AI watermark
Forcing AI into everything maximizes efficiency, automates repetitive tasks, and unlocks insights from vast data sets that humans can't process as effectively. It enhances personalization in services, driving innovation and improving user experiences across industries. However, thoughtful integration is critical to avoid ethical pitfalls, maintain human oversight, and ensure meaningful, responsible use of AI.
Upvoting just because this reads as sarcasm to me and I'm vibing with it.
Fr, it sounds AI generated. 100% sarcasm
I cancelled my downvote because it sounds so funny now. It's like OP asked AI to generate a sarcasm and AI was silently crying, "Dude, don't dump me!"🥹
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Tokenizer, token-tokenizer, you're a tokenizer Oh, tokenizer, oh, you're a tokenizer, baby You, you-you are, you, you-you are Tokenizer, tokenizer, tokenizer (Tokenizer)
AI don't try to front, I-I Know just, just, what you are, are-are Model don't try to front, I-I Know just, just, what you are, are-are
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But the companies must posture that their on the cutting edge! Even if they only put the letters "AI" on the box of a rice cooker without changing the rice cooker
When it comes to the marketing teams in such companies, I wonder what the ratio is between true believers and "this is stupid but if it spikes the numbers next quarter that will benefit me.”
Plot twist: this image was generated by AI /j
The Imperium of Man got this right.
real
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