Do you really think there’s only one study that shows that AI increases feelings of productivity, while also slowing down productivity?

Every industry is using this shit.

So I work for a landscaping company. How is AI going to help me move piles of dirt, or rake up leaves?

We already tried using it to generate site plans/maps and communicate with clients, and it’s worse than useless for both of those things. What else you got for me?

BTW, I’m not genuinely asking for business advice here, I’m pushing back against your assertion that every industry is using this shit. I’d go as far as to say that AI has no relevance to most workplaces.

“Vibe coded app that lets you create guitar tones by what you tell it” buddy, I’ve played guitar for years, and this sounds silly as hell to me. Describing the tone I want in English words sounds much more difficult than just twisting some knobs. I think the youtuber guy may just be trying to sell a product.

IDK, have you considered that perhaps the people demanding to be approached/questioned in a specific way are the friction point here?

Even on the nohello site, the “right” and “wrong” conversations are the exact same length (two messages each way). I genuinely struggle to see the point of any of this.

I love it… when people use ellipses… in business writing. So dramatic… so mysterious…

The other day I was out with two of my friends.

My one friend thought her car had a small issue. Me and my other friend are more knowledgeable about cars. We were like, “oh don’t worry about that, that’s normal.” First friend kept fretting until she looked it up on AI and AI said… the same thing that us, the two people standing next to her had said. She was so skeptical after what we said, and so relieved when AI said it was fine. I was so annoyed lmao.

I thought that was where a bunch of the initial core of libgen/anna’s archive was from? Maybe I’m wrong

Pretty interesting history, actually. They were more or less brought over from Japan by Japanese immigrants, but adapted to American tastes and ingredients (sweeter, and wheat rather than rice – the Japanese ones are more like rice crackers). During Japanese Internment, production was taken over by Chinese immigrants and they’ve been associated with Chinese-American food ever since.

That’s why I go to a mechanic with my car and listen to his advice, as I have zero clue about how that car even works.

What happened to “knowledge is free and out there”?

And honestly, if I’m using things without knowing anything about them, who is to blame? Am I not simply ignorant?

People don’t learn about linux for the same reason you don’t learn about your car.

Some consider it an ableist term

Yep, always felt the same way. Can’t be seriously suggested in a professional environment simply because of its name. Whole project been shooting itself in the foot with a machine gun since day 1.

Yes, when people get to a certain level of rich, they generally lack vision and imagination; they don’t need it anymore.

I think there’s a lot of money to be made in confronting climate change… but it will be made more than two fiscal quarters in the future, so capitalists are not just willing, but actually proud to ignore it.

I wonder if short hops in electric propeller planes are gonna take over everything in a few years. Like it will be the cheapest option for any trip under about 800 miles. Cheaper than driving, even in an electric car. A few Canadian companies are already doing this with seaplanes, where most of the trips are under 30 minutes anyway.

This tech is mature, in the US we’re just waiting on the FAA to certify it.

Fuck it, I’d vote for him once he turns 35.

Yes, and also, LLM’s aren’t as reliable at transcription as Dragon Dictation was back in 2010.

It’s shocking how crappy AI is, we’re actually moving backwards in real time.

If you think that your colleagues represent the majority of people, you may be in for a rude awakening.

I live in Seattle. The local trade schools are filling up with programmers learning to be carpenters because they hate AI so much.

The acceptable inaccurate result rate is 0%. I think that’s unachievable by LLM tech.

Then these people aren’t using DDG anyway, so why should DDG be trying to appeal to them?

Anecdotally, according to the internet my ~14 year old graphics card is worth more than 2x what I paid for it. So…

My issue is that people have been saying “yeah, it’s a bit iffy, but it’ll get better” since 2022. It’s been four years. When is it actually gonna get better… enough?

Based on my understanding of the underlying tech, it will always have some level of making shit up. That, combined with the fact that all of these companies are spending more money running data centers than they have coming in, implies to me that this tech (at least in the current form of cloud-based chatbots) isn’t staying around long-term. No one is actually making money off of it except the hardware vendors. None of these AI companies are what my grandpa would’ve called a “going concern.” So I haven’t felt much desire to get into it.

I typically like new technology as it comes out, but I haven’t found LLM’s to be very impressive or inspiring.