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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

"We have to find a compelling use case so we can keep tragedying the commons!"

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It’s getting more and more absurd.

“We can’t think of a good use for this parasite outside of our industry.”

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Play with algorithms and datasets if you want, but make it efficient. We don't need thousands of data centers guzzling water and electricity and disturbing the peace just to generate wrong answers and slop. Work on the algorithms, don't just scale up the slop.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Microsoft angle is that they can run their AI on your documents and files (it’s all on OneDrive now remember?) and “know” about you and the world as a whole collectively at all times. The panopticon wet dream of advertisers and governments alike. Plus hardware will be too expensive for plebs and we’ll all have scaled back dumb terminal tablets that connect to Microsoft Azure Copilot Windows for $49.99/month

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

CEOs aren't people. That's why they lobbied to have companies recognized as people. Stop giving them a stage.

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Brother, AI has proven multiple times to make you stupider. It's not a cognitive amplifier.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah, cause its totally not end-stage capitalism to invest a trillion dollars into something and THEN figure out what its for.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Must do something useful? You're the one selling the damn thing. You can't build a Pinto and then tell people "we have to stop burning to death or we'll lose permission to keep production faulty cars."

There is something inherently wrong with your product, and you can't even fix it because you're too busy shoving it down everyone's throats.

It's like you're trying to bake cookies using pieces of every plagiarized baking recipe, whether or not they're related. Then, before you've actually tasted the cookies, you're telling everyone to reach into the oven and try using this "basic" cookie to modify and make their own cookies.

Except the cookies haven't even baked yet. And before you've ever tasted a single fully baked cookie, you're announcing modifications to your cookie dough recipe based on feedback from your previously undercooked, improperly made cookies.

Go back to small scale. Let people bake their own cookies at home, and report what they've discovered. Try upscaling those recipes, and see if you can make any parts more efficient.

And quit telling people to eat your tainted cookies that are poisoning everyone, and then telling them that if they don't start enjoying your cookies soon, then you're gonna have to shut down your factory.

Your cookie/Pinto/AI venture deserves to be shut down. Take the L, learn from it, and try again after you figure out how to get it right. Bake a better cookie instead of trying to make better consumers.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

For the vast majority of use-cases we've been presented with, the most useful thing you can do with AI is abandon it.

[–] flock_of_nazguls@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only thing I use AI for is a fancy choose your own adventure book.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do they do different dialogue styles well? I could see using it for NPC chatter

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah there are plenty of sites that have pretrained characters chatbots, or you can instruct a generic LLM to talk like someone.

But that doesn't fix the problems of companies abusing resources to create and run these systems.

I have a use for it. Put it in the recycle bin.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe they should look into selling AI CP since it seems to be great at generating that shit

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But only to protect the children™ of course

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[–] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe we could start making more slop memes, to outbalance the possible usefulness of AI ?

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