For me AI has become the new 3D movie. People generally don’t want it but they just won’t stop pushing it. Exhausting.
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.
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.
Personally I prefer those 5D movies
Remember the good old days when we just bitched about adding bluetooth or internet connectivity to everything?
We’re still complaining about that when it’s in stupid shit. Because it was mainly for spyware purposes. AI is an extension of that same problem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only things I want AI to do for me is stuff that would be achieved more efficiently by just writing a script to pull the info I need out of the files I’m working on… Oh, will you look at that, that’s exactly what we’ve been working with for years now! Now if my boss could accept that instead of trying to shove AI down our throats it would be great!
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.
I opened Notepad on my work computer today and saw a new button in the upper right…
I liked the addition of tabs but I worried it implied there would be more changes to the most perfect Windows application in existence. I was crushed to find out I was right.
Good news there. Linux is all Notepad.
Even if AutoCAD ran natively, I don’t think the head office would like me installing Linux on their computer lol
Ach. That’s a proverbial drag. Sorry.
FrreCAD is now in 1.0
mspaint? calculator?
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.”
