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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI... but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

It's like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we've been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

"But we sell balloons"

"Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

My work place is doing a hackathon where projects must use AI in some way

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What does Hagrid have to do with it?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don’t blaspheme against PC Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's clear I'm in the minority as I don't have any idea who that Counting Crows lookin' motherfucker is.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's Steve from gamers nexus. They do consumer/prosumer computer hardware reviews, but also deep dives into industry practices, often exposing shady or illegal behavior.

He is lovingly referred to as gamer jesus due his scruffy look, generally affable nature, and habit of trying to right wrongs in the industry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain. He sounds like a great guy. I'll check him out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

One of us! One of us! One of us!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

At some point it starts sounding like an amateur mumble rap cover of the Pillar Men theme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

LMAO🤣
So true!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I swear to God search is purposely getting worse in order to force LLMs on us.

Not to mention image searches are just spammed with garbage AI art. Gotta add "before:2022" to all my images searches.

[–] sudo 9 points 3 weeks ago

Websearches were getting worse long before AI because of SEO slop. AI has accelerated the worsening searches by making it easier to generate SEO slop.

[–] SteveTech 14 points 3 weeks ago

Before other people start commenting 'yeah obviously', it's their April Fools video, it's pretty funny.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Always has been. The moment anyone understands "AI" is the moment they realize it isn't intelligent at all. It's just good at finding the right words or patterns.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Canadian: "That's crazy, eh?" Scotsman: "Aye."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah, it's more like a shriek than a buzz.

"Aaaaiiiii!"

[–] autokludge 3 points 3 weeks ago

Pronounced like the KEKW laugh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

To quote my favourite comment ive read about AI:

Person1) AI is just a fad. It will pass like NFTs. Peraon2) Nah, AI just started making good porn now. It will be here forever.

[–] thecomeback 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yes it definitely is. ML engineer here (not exclusively I'm more of a systems developer but I have ML certifications and have done ML projects), the current definition of "AI" is just marketing for LLMs which isn't the same as AI. It was redefined by OpenAI when they released ChatGPT back in 2022 to help drive momentum for their product. Before 2022 AI meant something along the lines of artificial sentience

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Almost makes me wish they still had steve ballmer doing his thing. Would've been some good spice for the video.