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LLM based AI was a fun toy when it first broke. Everyone was curious and wanted to play with it, which made it seem super popular. Now that the novelty has worn off, most people are bored and unimpressed with it. The problem is that the tech bros invested so much money in it and they are unwilling to take the loss. They are trying to force it so that they can say they didn't waste their money.
I agree with this, my sentiments exactly as well. Getting AI pushed towards us from every direction & really never asked for it. Like to use it for certain things but go to it when needed. Don't want it in everything, at least personally.
Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.
If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.
Are you like 80?
No, 47. Believe it or not, the first PCs came out when I was a young whippersnapper.
Oh OK cause the article you sent mentioned ELIZA being developed between 1964-67 so I had to ask.
IBM 486 was my first PC as a kid. Throw in those floppys and game on DOS!
I have 6.22 and Win3.11 running in a VM for fun.
Mine was an Apple ][+.
(And yes, that's how you write it properly. I'm a pedant.)
When I was a kid my folks bought the TI 99/4A for some ridiculous reason. It's interesting to look back at the weird hardware that never made it, like the cartridges that thing used instead of 5¼" floppies that were also out at the time. Maybe it reminded them of inserting 8 tracks.
The TI99 had an (optional) external expansion box that allowed it to use floppy disks.
I think the 99/4A also had a cassette tape drive you could buy. I don't think they ever made a floppy drive for it though.
I would have it no other way. I am the same. 😂
Fuck yea man, Dr Sbaitso was the one for me. I loved that shit. It still fucks with people when I bust that out on Dosbox.
Doggdorzbaydzoh.
So you want to tell me they all spent billions and made huge data centres that suck more power than small country so we can all play with it say it was fun and then toss it away?
This is kinda insane if that’s how it will play out
Not the first time this has happened. Even recently. See NFTs. Venture capitalists hear "tech buzzword" and throw money at it because if they're lucky, it's the next Google. Or at least it gets an IPO and they can cash out.
Yeah but like we could be doing something worthwhile with all these finite resources it makes me a bit dizzy
We could, but they don't care about making the world a better place. They care about getting rich. And then if everything collapses, they can go to their private island or their doomsday vault or whatever and enjoy the apocalypse.
Honestly they're still impressive and useful it's just the hype train overload and trying to implement them in areas they either don't fit or don't work well enough yet.
Even in areas where they would fit it's really annoying how some companies are trying to push it down our throats.
It's always some obnoxious UI element, screaming at me their 3 example questions, and I always sigh and think, "I have to assume you can only answer these 3 particular questions, and why would I ask those questions, and when I ask UI questions I expect precise answers so would I want to use AI for that."
I have no doubt that LLM's have more uses than I can think of, but come on...
I'm happy for studies like this. People who are trying to smear their AI all over our faces need to calm, the f..k, down.
AI does a good job of generating character portraits for my TTRPG games. But, really, beyond that I haven't found a good use for it.
...also TTRPH, TTRPI, TTRPJ, TTRPK, TTRPL, TTRPM, TTRPN, TTRPO, TTRPP, TTRPQ, TTRPR, TTRPS, TTRPT, TTRPU, TTRPV, TTRPW, TTRPX, TTRPY and TTRPZ games.
But beyond that, no good use, no siree.
PS: spoiler
that was WAY harder to type than I expected.So far that's been the best use of AI for me too. I've also used it to help flesh out character backgrounds, and then I just go through and edit it.
Yeah exactly, as a tool that doesn't need to be perfect to give you a starting point it's excellent. But companies sort of forgot the "as a tool" part and are just implementing ai outright in places it's not ready yet like drive-thru windows or voice only interface devices...it's not ready for that shit currently (if it ever truly will be).
They are all completely half-baked products being rolled out before they're ready because none of these billion dollar tech companies will allow a product to not immediately generate revenue.
I'm really enjoying seeing the backlash of everyone unanimously being sick of having this unfinished tech shoved down our throats.
One place where I found AI usefull is in generating search queries in JIRA. Not having to deal with their query language every time I have to change a search filter, but being able to just use the built in AI to query in natural language has already saved me like two or three minutes in total in the last two months.