Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.
Has anyone shown an AI that actually solves any problems besides wasting billions of tech dollars? I have “AI” in every browser, search engine and a bunch of sites. And every time I’ve tried using it it’s garbage. I have to refine basic queries multiple times and still then need to verify the answers. I’ve tried creative writing projects or to generate ideas and it splurts out the same rehashed shit I get on an initial web search. What’s the fucking point you techbro idiots?!
I find it immensely useful.
I run copilot-equivalent things locally for code autocomplete and suggestions. It’s about even in terms of language specific snippets in terms of productivity gains there.
I’ve run my resume through it to have it inject HR buzzwords into all my bullet points, and i think it looks much better as a result. (The AI is way more flattering about my work that I am, myself). For something like ChatGPT specifically, i hand it my resume along with job listings and have it rate my fit, give explanations as to why, and highlight areas the company would like to know about, which makes writing cover letters trivial.
Nvidia has an AI feature that guesses and fills in frames, making it so a game only needs to generate about 30fps to get the user equivalent of 120fps, drastically improving performance on both low and high end machines even adding in the cost of running the neural net.
You’re limiting your view of “AI” into what enters the news cycle, and like most things in the news cycle, they’re almost completely off the mark and more focused on the doom and gloom aspects.
My future career is perfectly gears towards integrating AI into people’s normal workflow so people can work with the accelerating affects of technology, instead of feeling replaced by it.
All that being said, jobs like screenwriters have good reason to be worried. Even a bad AI can make a better script that 80% of what comes out of hollywood these days.
Can you share which of the local code completion solutions you’re using? I’ve been looking into spinning up my own.
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So it’s like talking to a person or using a search engine?
You seriously expect or want it to be infallible magic? And then, even if it appeared to be, you would stop verifying its work?? Sounds like an unrealistic and problematic way to view it no matter how good it gets.
I use an llm-- GitHub copilot–every day and I find it pretty helpful.
I would agree that ai/LLM right now is sort of floundering in most products, but your stance that it’s absolutely useless trash just is not accurate
I expect it to be better than a search engine. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s slower and often gives me incorrect info. So I just have to check the sources anyways.
You’re using (probably poorly) an early version of a probably not great implementation of a technology and expecting it to be perfect. That’s not realistic at all. Then you’re declaring it a useless technology because of your anecdotal experience. Ai can be helpful and will only get more so, whether or not you find it useful right now
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People are saying it’s useful now. I said I have found NO uses for it. And people get pissy that their new tech isn’t exciting most people. To the majority of us, this seems like another crypto/NFT scam. And for the actual use cases we’ve had for years and years: we already had a name for that: algorithms. People are calling damn near everything AI these days in the same manner as generative text AIs and making no distinction. It’s a useless buzzword where the only people that seem excited about it are billionaire tech bros and to anyone who’s been paying attention that’s a red flag.
No, people get “pissy” when you make wild and absolute claims about something you clearly know nothing about.
And yeah I’m not sure how I’m being crypto scammed by paying for a service that clearly helps me a lot in my daily life.
Wanna make any random absolute claims about dark energy while you’re at it?