Well, certanly not with that attitude

Yes, ai is a tool. And the person in the screenshot is criticizing a generative gpt-like and midjorney-like ai, which has a massive impact on the climate and almost no useful results.

In your examples, as I can see, they always train their own model (supernovae research, illegal fishing) or heavily customize it and use it in close conjunction with people (cancer screenings).

And so I think we talking about two different things, so I want to clarify:

ai as in neural-network algorithm that can digest massive amounts of data and give meaningful results - absolutely is useful and, I think, the more the time will pass (and more grifters move on to other fields) the more actual useful niches and cases would be solved with neural-nets.

But, ai as in we-gonna-shove-this-bot-down-your-throut gpt-like bots trained on all the data from all the internet (mostly reddit) that struggle with basic questions, hallucinate glue on pizza, generate 6-fingered hands and are close to useless in any use-case are absolutely abismal and not worth it to ruin our climate for.

:D

It's not about fixing the garage door, it's about friends we made along the way

Me when I look at the sun for 0.001 nanoseconds:

You alright?

He can have her if he lets me talk to a lil fire dude and then feed it bacon

Me drinking from my estus flask (whiskey bottle) when I'm in a bossfight (investor meeting) and rolling away butt naked (i made a light parry build)

"No u"

Yooo really?? I never knew, always interpreted it literally

People who think like this, miss two important points in my opinion:

1. If you have a dogshit diet it's not going to be a "happy life full of tasty food" it's going to be an absolytely miserable existence, filled to the brim with stomach problems, skin problems, awful sleep schedule, variety of diseases and feeling bad in general

2. You don't need a nutrient paste to eat healthy - you just need a balanced dier. That means that shouldn't eat absolute garbage and not "overconsume" anything. Eat veggies, dairy, treat yourself to meat once in a while and you golden. The only actually hard thing it requires is some work - you need to actively seek recipes, spend some time at the store to find good products or even spend some time to find a good local shop that actually sells food and some processed garbage from supermarket, and eat mostly cooked at home stuff.

But for me personally it is worth it. I would much rather eat some backed veggies with a glass of milk and tasty fruits for a dessert in the evening, than go to a dirty cramped place and eat shitty cardboard-like dog food that they serve at McDs