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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 169 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the detail that she put "+ AI" on both sides of the equation so that it's still technically correct regardless of what the AI stands for.

[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 68 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sometimes it helps solve an equation by adding zero.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

This, this shit is why I would never have made a mathematician.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

You say that but every time you make a void function that takes no arguments all the mathmaticians in a 12 mile radius combust.

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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

my funding = 0
= -100M + 100M
= (the money I'll never made back to the investors) + (the shit I'll blow on AC and top gaming computers and stuff)

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 117 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

My company, while cutting back elsewhere, has dedicated a few million to AI projects over the next couple years. Not "projects to solve X business problem." Just projects that use AI.

So of course now, anything that is automated in any way is now being touted as AI. Taking data from one system and populating another? That's AI.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

Lol pretty much

[–] creamlike504@jlai.lu 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

For anyone who thought this wasn't real, I present to you: https://xnote.ai/

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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 31 points 3 weeks ago

Taking data from one system and populating another? That’s AI.

Well, it is. You just have to go back enough in time to find the context when people still called it so.

Gotta use those automatic computers full of electronic brains to do all those tasks that used to take years on rooms full of people with chemical brains hired as computers!

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 9 points 3 weeks ago

AI is such a loose term that calling anything with if-else statements “AI” wouldn’t be lying (I learned about decision trees in my university machine learning class and those are just giant nested if-else statements)

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AI: "I know you typed cp, but I'm sure you meant rm..."

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More like "cp? That's a violation of my ethical constraints and you have been reported to the authorities."

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Really though, about a quarter of my work related coding queries come back with "redacted to meet responsible AI guidelines".

It's an AI specifically for code. Apparently it thinks half the stuff I do is hacking.

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[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 70 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I’m old enough to have gone through a number of these technology bubbles, so much so that I haven’t paid much attention to them for a fair while. This AI bs feels a bit different, though. It seems to me that lots more people have completely lost their minds this time.

Like all bubbles, this too will end up in the same rubbish heap.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

That's because there's a non zero amount of actually functionality. Chatgpt does some useful stuff for normal people. It's accessible.

Contrast that to crypto, which was only accessible to tech folks and barely useful, or NFT which had no use at all.

Ok, I guess to be fair, the purpose of NFT was to separate chumps from their money, and it was quite good at that.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

There are pretty great applications in medicine. AI is an umbrella term that includes working with LLMs, image processing, pattern recognition and other stuff. There are fields where AI is a blessing. The problem is, as JohnSmith mentioned, it's the "solar battery" of the current day. At one point they had to make and/or advertise everything with solar batteries, even stuff that was better off with... batteries. Or the good ol' plug. Hopefully, it will settle down in a few year's time and they will focus on areas where it is more successful. They just need to find out which areas those are.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Possibly through ignorance or misunderstanding, btu I still think the tech behind NFTs may have some function, but it's certainly not the weird pictures of badly colored in monkeys speculation market that happened there.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

It seems to me that lots more people have completely lost their minds this time

That's not really an AI thing, that's just... everything.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because AI is mostly built for tech outsiders. They literally thought that digital art, composing music on the computer, programming, etc. was literally telling the computer what to do. I remember around 2015 someone asking where they can choose art-styles in Photoshop, and what to tell the PC to draw something. Even I as a child thought that you just had to type "please draw me a car" into the Commodore 64 to draw you a car, without all the pixel-art.

I tend to call these "normie tech". Tech that is built for non-enthusiasts, which have negative consequences to the others, and even fool the some enthusiasts into worshipping them. If only I foresaw the dangers of overtly centralized social media...

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

it's maybe because chatbots incorporate, accidentally or not, elements of what makes gambling addiction work on humans https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

the gist:

There’s a book on this — Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, from 2014. This is the how-to on getting people addicted to your mobile app. [Amazon UK, Amazon US]

Here’s Eyal’s “Hook Model”:

First, the trigger is what gets you in. e.g., you see a chatbot prompt and it suggests you type in a question. Second is the action — e.g., you do ask the bot a question. Third is the reward — and it’s got to be a variable reward. Sometimes the chatbot comes up with a mediocre answer — but sometimes you love the answer! Eyal says: “Feedback loops are all around us, but predictable ones don’t create desire.” Intermittent rewards are the key tool to create an addiction. Fourth is the investment — the user puts time, effort, or money into the process to get a better result next time. Skin in the game gives the user a sunk cost they’ve put in. Then the user loops back to the beginning. The user will be more likely to follow an external trigger — or they’ll come to your site themselves looking for the dopamine rush from that variable reward.

Eyal said he wrote Hooked to promote healthy habits, not addiction — but from the outside, you’ll be hard pressed to tell the difference. Because the model is, literally, how to design a poker machine. Keep the lab rats pulling the lever.

chatbots users also are attracted to their terminally sycophantic and agreeable responses, and also some users form parasocial relationships with motherfucking spicy autocomplete, and also chatbots were marketed to management types as a kind of futuristic status symbol that if you don't use it you'll fall behind and then you'll all see. people get mixed gambling addiction/fomo/parasocial relationship/being dupes of multibillion dollar advertising scheme and that's why they get so unserious about their chatbot use

and also separately core of openai and anthropic and probably some other companies are made from cultists that want to make machine god, but it's entirely different rabbit hole

like with any other bubble, money for it won't last forever. most recently disney sued midjourney for copyright infringement, and if they set legal precedent, they might take wipe out all of these drivel making machines for good

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

The internet did not end up in the trash heap after the dot com bubble burst. Ai too has real world uses that go beyond the current planet wrecking bubble.

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[–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago

This is exactly what my masters thesis feels like ATM, every attention is on all the AI crap also because the Uni gets grants ont the topic. Everything else just dies

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

seeking for

  1. looking for
  2. seeking

You need to pick a lane, my dude.

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] Uri@infosec.pub 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was equivalent from the start if we assume AI = 0

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 3 weeks ago
[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My company is like this. They literally have a feature in the roadmap called AI, and say we have to do something with it because our competitors do.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Really learning from the Arabs.

Al Project
Al Company
Al Product

[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Al gebra - ‘the reunion of broken parts’,

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The word "al" means "the" in Arabic - for example, "al jazeera" means "the island". And a lower case L looks like a capital i, so "AI" is visually indistinguishable from "Al". So the joke is that people who try to shoehorn Artificial Intelligence into everything look like they're speaking in Arabic.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Microwave now with AI

I work in actual ML research and even I think it's stupid

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[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of the insane LinkedIn post where a brilliant person was sharing their new equation which was essentially word + buzzword + AI.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AI in, AI out, simple math

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Money me, money me now
Me now money give

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