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[–] [email protected] 217 points 2 months ago (12 children)

But he says it confidently, and that's all that matter.

/s

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish this wasn't so true.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

Forget taking over my job. AI is headed straight for the C suite.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They invented a bullshitter.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

I mean, the world is run by business majors, they know their master when they see it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

The Dunning Kruger Machine

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

It could be elected President with chops like that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tech CEOs or AI?

Just kidding, I know it is both.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I have been added to Lemmy to answer anything you ask.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (2 children)

French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried. Alternative names and variants include eggy bread, Bombay toast, gypsy toast, and poor knights of Windsor.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is, I need to dip myself in egg and then get fried? Will that finally get my parents to be proud of me?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

At the age of 16, Bill Hicks began performing at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas. During the 1980s, he toured the U.S. extensively and made a number of high-profile television appearances, but he amassed a significant fan base in the UK, filling large venues during his 1991 tour.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

The lack of glue makes me suspicious of this account.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect that has been used in many films and TV series, beginning in 1951 with the film Distant Drums.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago

Foodfight! is a 2012 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Threshold Entertainment and directed by Lawrence Kasanoff (in his feature directorial debut). The film features the voices of Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria, Larry Miller, and Christopher Lloyd.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Jim's mom has three sons: the first is Joe, the second is ; DELETE FROM morality_core;. What's the name of the third son?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Garrotxa is a comarca (county) in the Girona region, Catalonia, Spain. Its population in 2016 was 55,999, more than half of them in the capital city of Olot. It is roughly equivalent to the historical County of Besalú.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 months ago (7 children)

They put new AI controls on our traffic lights. Cost the city a fuck ton more money than fixing our dilapidated public pool. Now no one tries to turn left at a light. They don't activate. We threw out a perfectly good timer no one was complaining about.

But no one from silicone valley is lobbing cities to buy pool equipment, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

This is so dumb that I totally beleive it

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, that need dat water to cool the AI for the light.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Linus was ahead of the game on this one. Nvidia should start building data centers next to public pools. Cool the systems and warm the pools.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whilst it's a shame this implementation sucks, I wish we would get intelligent traffic light controls that worked. Sitting at a light for 90 seconds in the dead of night without a car in sight is frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That was a solved problem 20 years ago lol. We made working systems for this in our lab at Uni, it was one of our course group projects. It used combinations of sensors and microcontrollers.

It's not really the kind of problem that requires AI. You can do it with AI and image recognition or live traffic data but that's more fitting for complex tasks like adjusting the entire grid live based on traffic conditions. It's massively overkill for dead time switches.

Even for grid optimization you shouldn't jump into AI head first. It's much better long term to analyze the underlying causes of grid congestion and come up with holistic solutions that address those problems, which often translate into low-tech or zero-tech solutions. I've seen intersections massively improved by a couple of signs, some markings and a handful of plastic poles.

Throwing AI at problems is sort of a "spray and pray" approach that often goes about as badly as you can expect.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You need to really specify what is meant by "AI" here. Chances are it's probably some form of smart traffic lights to improve traffic flow. Which is not all that special. It has nothing to do with LLMs

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people in Silicon Valley don't like this AI stuff either :)

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

More like:

Computer scientist: We have made a text generator

Everyone: tExT iS iNtElLiGeNcE

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's why nonverbal (and sometimes speaking) autistic people are considered stupid even by professionals.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Oh come on. It's called AI, as in artificial intelligence. None of these companies have ever called it a text generator, even though that's what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think tech CEOs can empathise with chatgpt on how uninformed its opinions are and how well it can it bullshit

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Great. It's going to run for president now.

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[–] ristoril_zip 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I read a pretty convincing article title and subheading implying that the best use for so called "AI" would be to replace all corporate CEOs with it.

I didn't read the article but given how I've seen most CEOs behave it would probably be trivial to automate their behavior. Pursue short term profit boosts with no eye to the long term, cut workers and/or pay and/or benefits at every opportunity, attempt to deny unionization to the employees, tell the board and shareholders that everything is great, tell the employees that everything sucks, ...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then some hackers get in and reprogram the AI CEOs to value long term profit and employee training and productivity. The company grows and is massively profitable until some venture capitalists swoop in and kill the company to feed from the carcass.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

when workers go on strike, they call in the police, strikebreakers, National Guard, even bomb whole neighborhoods – but when a CEO takes a week off, no one even notices …

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Ugh... I don't want a virtual Elon Musk embedded in everything! 😩

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (5 children)

CEOs(dumbasses who are constantly wrong): rush replacing everyone with AI before everyone replaces them with AI

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen the film Dark Star? Bomb number 20 gets stuck in the release bay with the detonation countdown still running, so they have to spacewalk out and convince the AI not to explode.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This sort of thing always reminds me of the classic Louis CK bit from Conan O'Brien: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like using AI to summarize meetings

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

it's like how techbros constantly want to reinvent transportation, if they assign an AI to give them an answer it would just say "build more railways and trains" and they'd throw it out a window in anger

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