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I hated it when everything became 'smart'.
Now everything has 'AI'.
Nothing was smart. And that's not AI.
Everything costs more, everything has a stupid app that gets abandoned, IoT backend that's on life support the moment it was turned on. Subscriptions everywhere! Everything is built with lower quality, lower standards.
Get into self hosting.
Smart everything without subscriptions. And with you in control.
My home is already plenty dumb enough without me exerting that level of control.
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.
That's so fucking weird wtf. Do you work for Elon Musk or something lmao
they don't care. you're not the audience. the tech industry lives on hype. now it's ai because before that they did it with nft and that failed. and crypto failed. tech needs a grift going to keep investors investing. when the bubble bursts again they'll come up with some other bullshit grift because making useful things is hard work.
Yup, you can see it in talks on annual tech conferences. Last year it was APIs, this year it’s all AI. They’ll just move on to the next trendy thing next year.
To be fair, APIs have been around since the 70s,and are not trendy, they're just required to have a common interface for applications to request and perform actions with each other.
But yeah, AI is mostly trendy bullshit
I was ok with crypto and nft because it was up to me to decide if I want to get involved in it or not.
AI does seem to have impact at jobs, at least employers are trying to use it and see if it actually will allow them to hire less staff, I see that for SWE. I don't think AI will do much there though.
It's the fucking touch screens again.
Do you remember the original touch screens? They were pressure based and suuuuuuuuucked.
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
I kind of like AI, sorry.
But it should all be freely available & completely open sourced since they were all built with our collective knowledge. The crass commercialization/hoarding is what's gross.
I like what we could be doing with AI.
For example there's one AI that I read about awhile back that was given data sets on all the known human diseases and the medications that are used to treat them.
Then it was given data sets of all the known chemical compounds(or something like that, can't remember the exact wording)
Then it was used to find new potential treatments for diseases. Like new antibiotics. Basically it gives medical researchers leads to follow.
That's fucking cool and beneficial to everyone. It's a wonderful application of the tech. Do more of that please.
What you are talking about is machine learning which is called AI. What the post is talking about is LLMs which are also called AI.
AI by definition means anything that exhibits intelligent behavior and it is not natural in nature.
So when you use GMaps to find the shortest path between 2 points that's also AI (specifically called local search).
It is pointless to argue/discuss AI if nobody even know which type they are specifically talking about.
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.
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.
The problem isn't AI. The problem is greedy, clueless management pushing half baked products of dubious value on consumers.
Containerize everything!
Crypto everything!
NFT everything!
Metaverse everything!
This too shall pass.
But then we wouldn't have to pay real artists for real art anymore, and we could finally just let them starve to death!
In film school (25 years ago), there was a lot of discussion around whether or not commerce was antithetical to art. I think it’s pretty clear now that it is. As commercial media leans more on AI, I hope the silver lining will be a modern Renaissance of art as (meaningful but unprofitable) creative expression.
If your motives are profit, you can draw furry porn or get a real job.
Was shopping for a laundry machine for my parents and LG, I shit you not, has an AI laundry machine now. I just can't even
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!"🥹
Upvote my post because it challenges conventional thinking and sparks a necessary debate about the pervasive role of AI in our lives! A downvote silences a crucial perspective, but an upvote gives this question the visibility it deserves to inspire meaningful discussion. Please, help ensure this idea gets the attention it needs—don’t let it fade away! 🙏
edit ok i'll stop. chatgpt getting creepy now
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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.
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.
At this point, I'm full on ready to make "though shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" global international law and a religious commandment. At least that way, we can burn all AI grifters as witches!
But the poor shareholders!
I think we're running out of advancements that make life better, now all technology does is make production cheaper/increase shareholder value.
But, but, but they want to sell as much of it as they can before the bubble bursts.
It's worse. The industry needs to entrench LLM and other AI so that after the bubble bursts it's so grafted info everything can't easily be removed, so afterwards everybody still needs to go past them and pay a buck.
Basically it's like a tick that needs to dig in deep now so you can't get rid of it later.
Am I the only one who hates the way there's text that follows a circle but there's two of them and they don't follow the same circle?