Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

that's another Onion pull

A relevant LinkedIn post I saw earlier today https://t.co/8INVFAOWT5 pic.twitter.com/dQXnlzqucL

— Ryan Bloom (@BlazeHedgehog) May 24, 2024

i guess everybody on Facebook for the message about now being raw material for their ai. you can opt out but they want an essay with reasons why and even then might ignore you anyway

for / saw

ffs, they should improve autocorrect first

facebook obvs will do whatever they want as they always have, your data is their data

i just hope instagram doesn't take a peek at all of this

https://thebaseballlifestyle.com/why-does-the-baseball-player-wear-pearls/

Pearls are a timeless accessory and have been worn by baseball players for many years. They are seen as a symbol of good luck, team spirit, and fashion. They can also help the player feel more confident and give them a sense of power and strength.

In regard to Scott Jensen's reference to a 'blind panic' among the high tech giants, it's worthwhile to remember that what is causing that panic is the specter of their stock options losing some fraction of their value, so they become marginally less obscenely wealthy.

i will pray for them

I go to Instagram and it prompts me to “ask meta AI anything”. What the FUCK would I want an AI to help me with on Instagram? What iota of value could we squeeze out of this thoroughly unnecessary and unasked-for “enhancement”?

Also, if I ever click on a post about, let’s say lettuce, for even a second, all I get in my feed forever is lettuce videos. Do you think I’m going to voluntarily sign up for the rest of my online life for whatever bullshit my mind serves up in the moment when I decide to “ask Meta AI” something?

Ask Meta, "would you please shrivel up and go away forever?"

Great, now my feed is guys walking into cold water, what the hell

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/05/microsoft-ai-recall-feature-records-everything-secures-far-less

very funny to see microsofts ceo pitching that all "it records every single thing you do and remembers it forever" tech guys are something else

we've had that for a while it's called spyware

pretty sure that microsoft recall feature is copying this startup https://www.rewind.ai/

which used to be a startup about simply recording everything that has ever happened on your computer - but now has pivoted towards record + AI

hell yeah brother

https://i.imgur.com/Is48NTC.png

All new fashion idea: what if we made baseball hats that you don't wear when playing baseball?!

what about a tactical baseball hat with space for my bullets and usb drives

a baseball cap that doesnt fly off your head when youre playing baseball

Prediction: AI will displace social drinking within 5 years

Just as alcohol is a social disinhibitor, like the Steve Martin movie Roxanne, people will use AI powered earbuds to help them socialize. At first we'll view it as creepy, but it will quickly become superior to alcohol

— Jonathan Ross (@JonathanRoss321) May 29, 2024

my first thought was "has this person ever drank" but now I'm wondering if he's actually ever been in a social situation before

I mean you probably get a good sitcom plot outta this, you know the ones where a lady tries to flirt with a guy by pretending to know about sports or whatever, having to run out of the room every 2 minutes to get new bits of trivia from her friends, only to be foiled when she blurts out something about how Vince Wilfork used to eat 3 rocks a day

cyrano de bergerac.ai

Apparently Jonathon Ross has never heard of Cyrano, only Steve Martin.

..does this saddo really think people are incapable of having conversations with other human beings unless they are drunk? Thats really fucking sad.

Apparently he also thinks people drink alcohol so they can talk to other people. What about the people who drink as a way of avoiding human contact? Huh? What about them?

if ai earbuds can get me buzzed i may have to rethink my stance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fLn4FYWH0

theres noting that lubricates social interactions like waiting for a computer to feed you lines

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— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) May 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM

^more of a 'supposed' AI has a long way to go but still kinda interesting

https://www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

I have never been able to read more than like three paragraphs of an Ed Zitron piece, and I find it fascinating actually - I have tried to analyse why and I always come up empty. He writes in a punchy way. He sets out his thesis. I dunno what it is. Just slides off the brain.

He’s completely unreadable

That was very readable lol

But most of it is stuff that has been discussed and written about elsewhere but I enjoyed how lots of it was put together in one place.

sure was a lot in one place

So many links, so much to enjoy

I thought it was good, gets at this sense I've been having the last few years that technology is evolving faster than humans can keep up with and it's producing a bunch of junk that people don't really want

when Facebook turned into "Meta" and started doing all this VR stuff it did worry me somewhat, I mean I know everyone was dunking on it and calling it stupid but I wasn't convinced a company would just throw away a bunch of money like that if they didn't think there was something there, glad to be right on that one

i like ziltron im glad hes out there writing in an olde school blog style, and to his credit amongst the millions of opinion havers he does do some reporting like his piece on the people who ruined google hadnt really been reported like that and i think he turned up some new stuff from sources, or at least some digging like in the most recent one where he went into the declining traffic to the new sites he turns up some interesting stuff that youre not just seeing everywhere

xp actually technology has NOT been evolving. "AI" is just autocomplete that people think is God.

auto complete could be god you dont know

autocomplete couldn't really write coherent sentences though, ChatGPT can. it can do things that weren't really possible before. the degree to which the technology 'works' is debatable but I dunno it does feel like a pretty big leap to me

its just auto complete in the sense of thats how it works, its def better huge wow factor for sure, but is it good*, no, will it ever be good, idk

*mildly useful for c0ding, maybe harmful

ed zitron has some of that jon oliver energy which makes it a bit shouty and hard to read inside my head, but i support what he's doing

hes kinda like that when irl talking on pods too