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Raid: Shadow Legends
Couldn’t block that one, could ya bub?
there’s sponsorblock for youtube, so I don’t see most of those either.
Just because you don’t see something online, doesn’t mean something online can’t see you. That’s a major worry, or at least it should be, unless you’re using today’s sponsor, Incogni…
They’re also targeting students with the ads, which tells me that it’s encouraging them to cheat.
I use uBlock Origin btw. I only see ads when my someone is watching TV or if I go to random websites in the Tor browser.
My girlfriends child is learning in school how to use chatgpt. They are heavily encouraged to use it to control their own text and whatever. She’s 8. She’s leqrning to use a tool ahe will never ever be allowed to in the future.
That is not good, especially at that age where the brain would be developing rapidly. This is the time where she really needs to use her brain to process information.
watching TV
You guys watch TV?
Yeah, it’s what you hook up your stuff too.
Oh, do you mean actual broadcast?
Mostly just older people I see watch TV.
I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.
One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn’t continue to use it.
Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest “sandwich”. You buy water from the water company because you wouldn’t have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell “intelligence”
I used Claude terminal and it immediately identified that i had a service that constantly sent small packets to my headset and since all packets have to use the smallest ones it was crackling sometimes due to latency
Fized that and set the minimum to a reasonable amount
It had its uses
It might be they’re not trying anymore.
All the common AI tasks that by end-users and small businesses can be done better by local software rather than through compute on a hyperscale platform. The only reason to need big AI is for large-scale projects. They’re still selling compute at a huge loss, and their profits are dwarfed by their expenses.
(Some argue the expenses are due to the massive buildout, which is reaching a capability point of diminishing returns. But even the running expenses outweigh the profits, even with government contracts.)
You know, like controlling armies of killer drones, or processing mass surveillance data to find dissidents that are an actual threat. Or doing cyber-ops on a rival nation.
I think that is why the stock market is still investing in big AI, not because we want better slop, but because they want garrison large populations and wreck rival societies.
Only a fool would think AI data centers are to help Timmy with an essay, Gertrude decide on a gift for her grandkids or Cameron the moron write a professional response at work that doesn’t sound like it was written by 6th grader…
…it’s all about mass surveillance. Always has been.
That and control. It used to be done by keeping the common folk illiterate. Now they’re crippling our ability to think entirely. Much easier that way to control the complacent, ignorant masses
Meanwhile I ask Gemini “Hey Gemini, can this Google product do X?”
It responds "Here is a list of features for Google’s Product:
… Does W! Does X! Does Y! …Me: clicks source for listed feature X… gets sent to post on Product’s support forum: “Can Product do X?” “No, it can’t do X.”
Thanks Gemini!
Like in the early 2000s when certain websites would copy paste a half a dictionary onto the site description so google would put them in every search result despite not being relevant.
Today’s children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone. Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.
I could live without a cellphone. But since AI got popular, it isn’t as easy to keep up at some subjects as it was before (since everybody at our highschool cheated with AI - at least I did most of the non-annoying stuff myself), which means I had to do more work.
Factually, using AI in your education means you get less value out of that education. In every math class ever, you’ve probably heard some version of,
“I don’t care that you got the right answer. I already know that 2x^2 - 5x -3 factors into (2x + 1)(x - 3) and I already know that this information is freely available. What I care about is making sure that you can figure that out without anyone helping you.”
If you use AI to do a problem, you’re training your ability to do something that everyone else on the planet can do. If you force yourself to do it, you’re training your ability to actually think.
You actually WON’T have to do more work in the long run. Think of it as an investment. If you spend the time learning it now, properly, so that you actually understand it, then every test that your study for, for the rest of your life, will be easier, and you’ll get higher grades. Measurably.
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
Keep it up.
That work is way more valuable than an empty grade. You are going to have very useful advantages over the ones using chatbots to cheat.
speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it’s really convenient because when you just don’t know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don’t even know where to start.
There was some AI ad where someone pointed their camera to their messy shelf and were like “Hey, how do I clean up my shelf?” and the AI was like “try rearranging the smaller items first” and about a billion people went “no shit”.
Every AI bubble pump slop article is like
Say: “i’m alive“
AI: “I’m alive”
😱😱😱😱😱
Or
Hack this company plz
technically hacks that company after setting $17.8 million on fire
😱😱😱😱😱
The best are when they have the sweet old grandmas asking it how to cook.
Yeah, sweet old grandmas already know how to cook, they don’t need AIs.
One day, I need to recreate a dish my late grandma did. Probably simple, but very nostalgic at personal level. I don’t think AIs are much help here.
Or the ones where the knitting grandmas are asking it for advice. Are you kidding me? First off Gemini is the most shit thing I’ve ever seen when it comes to knitting/crocheting. Second, at that age, either you’re a repository for the craft already or you are looking for community and will be knitting aside these walking yarn encyclopedias in a knitting circle.
Some of these ads actually makes me think that artificial intelligence is for the naturally dumb.
stupid is growing faster than ever
It’s a push-pull kind of thing. They want to rope in all the people who can’t think of a sandwich, and because getting people to offload effort is a great way to capture customers long term, it’s a demonstration of how the want to mentally neuter the public.
My favorite ads are the ones that can easily be solved with minimal human interaction. Apple released an ad for their “rewind” feature where the Apple Watch records everyone’s audio and transcribes it. Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.
So, now the waitress can bring a pre-recorded presentation, play it a 10 times the speed, and the customer can read it from their watch. Saves everybody some time.
Or… They could open the menu card. Also on their watch if they insist.
This is the tech we get when the people developing it are socially awkward.
Ironically. When I was in the Nordics many moons ago and rang up the hostel with my beginner English to ask a question, the receptionist rattled off the answer at 300 words per minute, of which I understood about none. Upon me asking her to repeat, she did in fact repeat, at the same speed and with the same result. I thanked her, hung up the phone and to this day have no idea what she said.
You know what people with hearing problems do actively use when they can, especially in their non-native languages? Subtitles.
If my 70% deaf parents had this, they wouldn’t use it (much like their hearing aids)
Reminds me of my favorite; Sam Altman suggested using Open AI to create a podcast based on your kids’ interests to listen to on the way to school. The top comment was “Just talk to your kids.”
I mean, it could definitely be useful to listen to a podcast together with your kids, as a way of bonding. But… why not listen to a podcast made by humans? There are sooo many!
But yes, talk with your kids! the kids will talk nonstop if they see you’re actually listening :)
They key is to actually focus your attention on your kids instead of playing with “ai” instead of your kids.
Yup! Listen to them, talk to them! Treat them as people!
“Just talk to your kids.”
I am reminded of the scene in Parks and Rec where the schools need to be closed for a day and parents are freaking out. One asks, “you’re saying I should keep my kids at home? Where I live?”
This was some parents during Covid though. People were so mad they had to spend time with their families 😭😂
Many years ago I worked for a small research company that was trying to find applications for voice assistant technology. This was before LLMs mind you, so even more useless than today. One of their projects was “make an ai that will talk to your grandparents and transcribe their stories”.
I told them that if my kids did that to me I’d just never speak to them again.
They tried anyway, and surprise — it went nowhere.
Iirc someone on the selhosted com recently built this exact thing. An AI tool that asks family members questions about their lives and transcribes it into a digital scrapbook thing.
Literally made me sick.
“Use OpenAI to maintain an ongoing conversation with your elders so you don’t have to” would be more honest.
Honestly, if it was more of an assistant that just sat alongside you and just did the recording, that would be dope as fuck.
I’m still sad that I don’t have a lot of memories of my grandparents, partially just age, but somewhat because I was an ungrateful little shit. I sat and listened to them talk a lot when I was a kid, and what memories I still have are gold. A tool like that could have helped keep what I had rather than being left with what time and CTE haven’t taken.
Couldn’t one just use a laptop or phone to record a conversation with The Elders and then manually transcribe it later?
One could, but I know my ADHD ass would never get around to transcribing them. The videos would be nice either way, tho.
Hey surveillance device that I but no one else around me opted into, what was that list of specials that the waiter had memorized and just told me? I dont want to simply ask him to repeat it.
That would require talking to a human, that’s free, so is to be discouraged when possible.
Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.
No, that’s too stupid, that can’t possibly be real.
