For me AI has become the new 3D movie. People generally don't want it but they just won't stop pushing it. Exhausting.
I was watching Despicable Me with my daughter yesterday and was struck by how we will never see much variation or artistic style in animated movies ever again. They all just look like Pixar/DreamWorks now.
My dad wants it, badly it seems.
I doubt he's alone.
My wife was gifted an old pre WW2 Hitler related coin and i got curious so i started to research it's value and origin, my dad kept trying to get me to install some AI app to ask it about the coin.
I stumbled on some very old local currency (1625, from the city i was born in) which was absurdly expensive and from a very specific time in the history of this city when another country occupied it. They were square coins and as it turns out my city has loads more of interesting history that i found through finding other old coins online...a beautiful journey that would've never happened if i took it to AI.
Personally I prefer those 5D movies
Does everyone hate it though? As much as I personally agree, I do not see the same sentiment bearing out in public sentiment. If an app that previously didn’t have an AI feature suddenly adds on, regardless of how arbitrary, I feel like people generally consider that an objective upgrade.
I’m curious what everyone else sees w/regard to public sentiment towards AI? Seems like it’s usually indifference or enthusiasm.
Neural networks in general? Awesome technology.
LLMs? Not my cup of tea, but I can see its usefulness with certain tasks.
Company inverstors obsessing over them and throwing shit at my wall until it sticks? nah gtfo
I don't want it in anything art or creative related.
No scripts.
No animation.
No "art."
No music.
No generated actors.
No generated voice acting.
I writhe heavily every time I see google spit out half true AI answers. Messed me up a few times when it just blindly combined 2 unrelated paragraphs together as one fact. What is the point, if I have to read the page anyways to confirm the validity?
It was the final straw that made me never use Google again. I mean come on, you search for something and 100% of the screen is now just adds or half true AI garbage.
AI art has also largely ruined wallpaper apps and sites. There's this uncanny look most AI images share and it makes my skin crawl. Then we have the abominations that are AI avatars and emojis...
OH! Can't forget AI customer support! What a steaming pile of shit! It barely works and lies! Once I wanted to pick up an order my self, because it was taking WAY too long, and the little shit lied about contacting the restaurant! Not to mention the refund policy is now effectively whatever the AI spits out today. Needless to say, we now always demand an actual human.
Honestly, besides apps that are centered around AI and it's abilities, any other place where it has been forced into has beed objectively worse for me.
As far as the "AI" that's been hyped out the wazoo, the only people I see that are excited about it are people who haven't used it yet and don't know how it works. So there's a little "black box magic" in their attitude because, hey, it might be something fantastic - I mean, they say it is, right?
Machine Learning and other "formerly known as" artificial intelligence functions may or may not be getting huge upgrades - none that I've seen so far, but even if there were, it'd be limited to STEM fields and such. I take this art to be referencing the ChatGPT and CoPilot type "looks like you're typing as letter want me to help with that, by spewing paragraphs of reasonably calculated probable words" sort of Clippy-type stuff.
So, I would agree some people seem excited about it still, but I would note they are also the people who haven't been extremely disappointed with it yet either. Once they've had their fill (usually about 10 minutes) it will become annoying, as it is to everyone else. Only because Microsoft has sunk so many billions into it - it will never ever go away. And the carnage will roll on unabated, hobbling the sciences and liberal arts for decades.
My perception is that people are tacitly accepting it. When directly questioned about the pros and cons of AI tools, they will admit on principle that it's generally not a good idea to rely on them. But then they use them anyway, seemingly without a second thought.
It's like calling cars into question in an area that's built around cars. People will admit that cars kinda suck and that a car-dependent society isn't great, but they won't do anything to change it.
I agree in the sense that there are always people who will see “Now with X!” and interpret that as a selling point even if they have no idea what X is or what it does for the product. I would wager there are more people out there that couldn’t describe what part of the product is the “AI” than there are people who are genuinely enthused by what the AI is doing.
You see that it's a bubble, because open source still doesn't do it.
Edit: i meant the "packing AI in everything" part, dedicated tools are fine.
Im not forcing AI into fucking anything. If it wants to fuck something though Im not going to discourage it.
It's not going anywhere. No matter the outcome, shits bout to get really interesting.
The only thing I want AI to do for me is to make digital voice assistants not terrible. So far, that has not happened and literally everything else is worse instead.
Ah, yes. I installed Gemini, asked it the time, and it gave me a time. It was off by 4 hours and like 5 minutes, but it did give me a time.
I quit using it right after that.
This will be the litmus test for me too. Open an AI chat when I have an issue I need to solve and have the bot actually....help me do it, even just a little.
ChatGPT voice has been good. Hallucinates out the ass, but is okay. Can seamlessly swap between Arabic and English is the main thing.
So what you're saying is, never mind what it's producing is bullshit as long as it's saying it convincingly? 🙂
No, I'm saying that it is hands down the best at comprehending and translating Arabic, down to dialects.
Right, thanks. Couldn't help the snark but I'm glad you cleared it up.
But if I can't have a conversation with my toilet in the morning, what will I do in there?
"Alexa, please flush my toilet" "Ok, Here's some information about toilets" "No, Alexa, please flush my toilet! There's no flush lever on it" "Ordering 40 packs of toilet paper"
"Playing 'The Toilet Song' by The Wiggles."
You live out of fantasies whispering to yourself like the rest of us!
Don’t even act like this isn’t exactly what you do when you’re on the toilet. Come here.
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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