meta’s AI “Advisory Group” is all white tech bros with the same incentives as zucc,
https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1798579467608318197
I think he’s right. AI crap is going to be forced into every nook and cranny of our lives for absolutely no reason and it’s going to take a decade before people come to their senses. It’s just like crypto, it doesn’t matter if it actually does anything useful or not.
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Yeah, been noticing this too. Everything online and every app is having an “AI” element added that isn’t actually artificial intelligence and actively makes their product worse.
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I get a chuckle about work related AI stuff.
My extremely slow to adapt to change employer sent us an email awhile back saying something like “we have heard reports of use of AI also known as artificial intelligence, but have no idea what it is, so shut it down until we figure out what is going on”
Gonna be honest copilot is really good for day to day writing code. The auto complete is about 75% helpful and saves a ton of time, especially with types. I don’t ask it to do anything hard at all the real value is it knows and can take care of a ton of the time wasting boilerplate tedium.
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It’s unfortunate AI was developed with no concern for security at all. There is an interesting Mac app that will listen to all your meetings and all your typing and allow you to ask questions about what you where doing during the day that could be pretty interesting, but it has to send the data to the cloud to do it so we can’t use it.
thanks for the auto complete copilot
Fuck yeah, as a consumer I really want AI running my phone OS and looking at my emails and my relationship with my mom and whatnot.
This is where I struggle a little with the AI terminology? Like Google software has been running phone OS and “reading” Gmail since it started right? Is this software that much scarier than before they slapped AI onto its name
I kinda remember it being a news item when gmail kicked off and people parsed their ToS enough to figure out that their emails will be “read by google” for about 15 minutes and then it went on to be the world’s biggest email system so yeah.
This is a bit different though and could be explained with “gmail’s data collection stays internal to google, while an LLM learning from your data means that your data in some ways is public”.
https://x.com/fmaddennba/status/1800238218366890364?s=46&t=ECIc-ET7JxxiLXr8SgrQ7Q
Glad I missed it when this happened yesterday, but this is just another example of the super tech advancement being rush added to everything you use! What could go wrong?
Guy who started a coding bootcamp claiming incredible results & outcomes for its students turned out to be a garden variety fraudster, a retrospective:
A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money!
This slop no one wants is going to be jammed into every nook and cranny of our lives until humanity has boiled off the plant’s oceans.
the whole “with ads” thing is one reason I probably will never get a kindle (the lack of smell is the #1 reason of course). There was a brief window where I was traveling a lot, in-flight wifi wasn’t available consistently (and I was often in areas where wifi wasn’t consistently available), and I had a need to have access to a lot of technical books where I htought the kindle would be the answer but it passed pretty quickly.
Kindle has some problems/drawbacks, and paper books are cool and all, but I’ve gotten easy five figures of value out of mine over the course of thousands of books borrowed from the local library system.
P.S. I did bend over for the ad-free version. Didn’t like it but it only hurt once.
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