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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."
When I heard that line I was like "Yeah, sure. We'll never have AI in my lifespan" and you know what? I was right.
What I wasn't expecting was for a bunch of tech bros to create an advanced chatbot and announce "Behold! We have created AI, let's have it do all of our thinking for us!" while the chatbot spits out buggy code and suggests mixing glue into your pizza sauce.
I work in the gaming industry and every week I receive emails about how AI is gonna revolutionize my job and get sent to time wasting training about how to use Figma AI or other shit like that because it's the best thing ever according to HR... and it never is obviously.
At best, it's gonna make middle managing jobs easier but for devs like me, as long as the "AI" stays out of our engines and stays into the equivalent of cooperative vision boards, it does nothing for me. Not once have I tried to use it for it to turn actually useful. It's mediocre at best and I can't believe there are game devs that actually try to code with it, can't wait to see these hot garbage products come on the market.
Gawd, me too. They've started scraping my LinkedIn recommenders to try bait me in.
For context, I work at a university. The subject was something like "xxxxxx recommends you for a company like us" implying my contact had actually been behind it, but obviously they didn't.
Hi saltesc,
Saw on LinkedIn that xxxxxx highlighted your industry expertise and dedication to client success—sounds like you're pivotal in driving both xxxxxx and solid outcomes for your clients!
By the way, any chance you'd be interested in using AI to get total visibility of all your data?
Our AI data analytics solution specializes in helping companies in the higher education industry do exactly that.
With Knowi, you can effortlessly get answers to questions like:
What is the percentage increase in graduate employment rates from diverse student demographics over the past three years, including international learners?
How many new educational offerings have been developed annually at xxxxxx to enhance skills development within the community, including international students?
It's like ChatGPT, but for your data!
Open to learning more?
All the best, xxxxxx xxxxxx Business Growth
And obviously it reads like it was written by one of the GPTs.
Had they seen our profiles, they'd actually know what it is we do and how ridiculous recommending a chat AI is. That's sooooo beneath our knowledge and expertise. Like a random suggesting Ivermectin to Dr Faucci.
From their example, seems like all they’ve “innovated” is a new, less reliable way to write database queries !
AI is an umbrella term that covers many things we've already had for a long time, including things like machine learning. This is not a new definition of AI, it's always been this definition.
You're confusing AI and AGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
AGI is what people mean, when they say "AI doesn't exist": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
While AI is a program that can do a task associated with human intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
AI is not supposed to be an artificial human being. AI just does a task that people associated with humans (before they readjusted the definition of intelligence after it being created).
A bot that plays chess is an AI.
It used to be that AI was AI and then when AI was coopted by the stupid they had to come up qith AGI
You won't have general purpose true AI until it can actually think and reason, llm will never do that. At most they would be a way of interaction with an AI.
So much horseshit happened around 2000 that forever split our timeline...
W Stealing the election
Bin Laden attacking and making the entire world forever lose their mind and hope
Never ending wars and climate destruction because no-one cared anymore about collaboration
That 4 year period altered the world's trajectory for the worse on so many levels.
W lies and propaganda led to Putin and Trump and it set the stage for all of the anti queer and anti immigrant rhetoric
unless you're queer. queerphobia was much more rampant back then.
Interestingly enough though, the directors of the matrix are two trans women
But while yes, queerphobia was worse in some ways, it was also not as bad in others. For example, trans people didn't have the massive organized targeted attack back then. In many ways, things have gotten worse in this aspect too
We had passed the peak. Limp Bizkit was already popular. Every dude I know that loved that band is now a middle aged incel.
God,
thought they were cool.
haven't heard of them in decades, not until the new Devil May Cry in netflix. enjoyed the nostalgia.
now I'm afraid I've become a middle aged incel.
someone put me down before it gets worse, why am I suddenly interested in starting a podcast?
Checks out. I lived through those times and see the same trend. Fuck that band was intolerable.
The US is not all of civilization.
The rise of authoritarianism and nationalism is happening in multiple countries like Hungary, Russia, China, and the U.S. Parties like AfD have grown in strength in the last 20 years, thanks in part to the ability of social media companies to prioritize "engagement" to enable them to make more money over societal health.
I was more talking about how this says "peak" when the 90's were decidedly not peak for a lot of the world.
I think China and Russia are pretty far gone
Other countries we can still help save
I think there's still hope for them. In the last 20 years China and Russia have become a lot more like us, too. There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.
Prince made this statement way before Matrix did