They always seem to have bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch. One would have thought that’d be a step in the process but apparently not.
It can summarise your text messages!
Oh, yes, because that’s an insurmountable amount of text to read, please hold my hand through this difficult time.My favorite is this combo of AI “benefits”:
- Create fully-written emails from a few simple bullet points!
- Summarize long emails into simple bullet points!
Imagine if we could just send bullet point emails, huh?
AI is getting billions in investment. Every single company out there is pushing employees to use it. Most brands have OKRs of shoving AI into their services.
And yet a chat box, removing objects in pictures or generating mediocre images is all they ever achieve.
Nobody goes beyond that. It’s always the same as ChatGPT but with a modified system prompt. It’s always image generation. Oh look we spent half of the quarter’s budget but now our website displays an AI generated summary on top of the already easy to read information!
Which to me is irrefutable proof that AI is a useless money sink. Every company out there battling to grab your attention with AI, billions of dollars, market pressure and it’s still useless?
It’s gonna be a milti trillion dollar industry.
Okay but what for.
Multi… Trillion… Just think about it.
But what does it do?
You wouldn’t get it
I recently saw an AI summary appear on a YouTube video. “This is a video about a man sitting in a room talking about technical stuff.” Yeah, no shit, I knew that by seeing the thumbnail. A small list of the point he was making was too much for an AI. Useless toys.
Hey AI, I bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch, what do I do
AI: Sandwich
Wow
I hate the ones where they have things made out of unexpected materials like jello keyboard. It they have marbles or whatever and they spread it on toast as is gets smashed like jam.
Like, how is that supposed to impress anyone?
they’re so common because someone is consuming them. there’s money to be made there somehow
Where are you guys seeing all these ads? Do you not have adblockers?
I’m so used to hard adblock everything, no ai google - that one time i opened adblockless browser and tried googling something instantly turned into that Joe Pesci meme - so many ads - KILL IT WITH FIRE
Live TV 😐
Watching live TV in this day and age is insane tbh. That’s just my opinion
They’re making it up. Just like how Republican memes make up situations about dangerous immigrant crimes happening in their city. AI bullshit on lemmy is the same shit as Republican immigration views on the right.
You wanna explain this stupid thing, then?
https://youtu.be/O_Q1hoEhfk4What’s wrong with it. How does it relate.
It is an imaginary friend for crazy people. And it’s only $99, if you want one.
You could say the same about your computer or phone. Sitting alone in your room ignoring everything around you staring into a screen yelling about useless shit with strangers.
Would you?
Yea
Some people aren’t terminally online. This includes watching TV or listening to the radio.
I am so used with uBlock origin and DNS level blocking that when i use someone else device i just get confused by the absurd amount of ads
What do you use for DNS level blocking on android? I used to have an app, but it changed for the worse. Do you just set adguard dns as private DNS in your phone settings?
I use NextDNS with some couple of lists:
Lightswitch05, Steven Black, notracking, Goodbye ads, 1host , NSAblocklist, Windows spy blocker, HaGeZi - multi ultimate, OISD
i use this same setup on windows too and i have a bunch of other settings too but i feel that it’s better if you change them by yourself the only thing i suggest is to disable logs or if you still want them then you should at least change their position in EU
Thank you!
Honestly, AI is a good tool for making dinner plans and digging out cooking recipes. Exactly the stuff that I don’t want to waste my own brain or time doing. It’s a waste of resources and disrespectful to the idea of it of being intelligent, but it’s actually helpful for those kind of tasks.
It’s also great for holiday planning. You can spend an entire week of free time to plan a three day holiday by browsing the internet yourself or you can ask AI to do it for you in minutes.
The internet has gone to shit. Your searches don’t find anything but ads and promoted clickbait content. The AI don’t mind that. It’ll gladly browse hundreds of pages and return an answer to you.
At least for now. Eventually it’ll be shittified too. More than it already is.
I’m going to be real honest here. I often need someone to tell me what to eat. The decision can be too much of an obstacle, especially when I’m hungry.
i understand that, but i highly recommend you not to rely on chatgpt for that. it is much easier to do so, but you are making it even harder for yourself in the future, by slowly training yourself to trust even less on yourself.
you could set some time aside when you are not hungry and get a list of easy meals that you can make when you are in hungry mode
but also, if you do it from time to time when you really need it, that is ok. just not always
What I actually do: lumber up to whoever happens to be in the house at the moment and say “WHAT SHOULD I EAT”.
whoever happens to be in the house at the moment
I know that this is probably about roommates or family members, but I like to imagine you leave your door open and yell these sorts of questions at whoever might wander in
“Probably”.
You need fuck it foods. Also, make a list of stuff you like based on effort you can put in and assign it to numbers on a die.
I often need someone to tell me what to eat.
Computer is thinking
Computer is calculating an answer
Computer is incorporating your personal preferences
Computer is polling the audience
Computer is building a heuristic with over 9000 data points in order to triangulate the perfect meal for you in this given moment
Computer is producing a response
🥪
Reticulating splines
We technically solved this problem years ago:
They should make this but with actual food instead of answers. Shake up the Magic Ate Ball and it says a meal. I’d buy that.
I had to look it up to be sure that’s not real. How is it not fkn real? What a great idea!
“Hey magic 8 ball, what should I eat for dinner?”
“Yes”
Asi seeit yes? Is that an Indian dish? None of my local places seem to have it on their menu.
How about 1-2 egg omelette on top of a crispy bagel? Don’t cook the omelette all the way, then cut it into triangles or strips, then place onto bagel in a circular pattern. The idea is the bagel absorbs the cheese/butter/egg mix.
I am the eggman. I have a whole egg preparation routine that I can run through before I’ve even had coffee. Doesn’t even have to be exactly the same every time.
My issues generally occur at lunchtime, more often when that time has been pushed back from “regular noon lunch” to 2p or 3p. In a pinch, if there’s nobody around to demand instruction from, I can dip into the snack bucket and unwrap something and eat it, which might give me the mental space to figure out what I actually should eat. Kind of like how a fission bomb is used as a detonator for a fusion bomb.
Oh just pack the same lunch every day. Is it enjoyable? No. Did I prefer a peanut butter on whole wheat with an apple to actually having to decide what to eat or dealing with inconvenience in preparing lunch? You cannot understand how much of a game changer this was. No struggle to pack a lunch. If I was busy the night before then I’d just pack an extra in advance (and keep emergency food in my desk).
I’m WFH, no packing required.
I solve this by eating the same thing for lunch every day and a rotating set of dinners that I pick based on which ingredients will go bad the fastest.
This admittedly only works if you can eat the same thing for lunch every day without going mad, but lucky for me I really like burritos.
There used to be a tool called WheelOfLunch that would grab nearby restaurants and put them on a giant Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel and let you spin it. Used it to break many “where should we go” logjams in the office. It was nice
This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It’s like… 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can’t write it yourself.
Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.
But I would rather pollute the air that poor people breathe!
You can make a list of 20 options and roll a d20 dice.
Roll a d20, search “food”, then select the option according to the roll.
I’m unclear on how that’s a smaller obstacle.
Because you can do it in advance
Oh do it in advance? Just do it in advance?? Why don’t I strap on my Advance Helmet and squeeze down into an Advance Cannon and fire off into AdvanceLand, where Advances grow on Advancies??!
Okay, 6 items and a d6?
Why not 1 item and a D1? Zero items and a D0? π items and a Dπ?
So you ask the thing with no taste buds?
It doesn’t need to be a good answer. It just needs to be an answer.
It’s funny because it’s the same ads from the first wave of voice assistants. This AI stuff sure is revolutionary eh
I still don’t even get the stupid voice assist. All i ever did and still do is: set an alarm for 10 min. When i’m cooking. Just because it’s slightly faster then doing it manually.
The first public demo of Siri back when the iPhone 4S launched is more impressive than most AI commercials.
Okay, but with Sora 2, consider that you can…
Make SpongeBob cosplay as Hitler and create a video of Pikachu shoplifting pokeballs.
Think about how much value that ads.
SpongeBob Hitler doesn’t even have the moustache. So disappointed.
I use AI heavily but only in the form of my terrible finetuned Discord bot that goes off on random, unrelated schizophrenic rants or does things like (unprompteddly) come up with business ideas such as “tinder for toddlers”
you may laugh but that is the end goal. we’re already seeing this in people who are overreliant on AI: you get used to off-loading your brain activity so much that you need to consult AI for the most basic shit. like remembering to eat, or calculating 4+10.
@grok is this real?
@Grok: I don’t know but here’s a white supremacist conspiracy theory stated as fact, straight from Elon’s ketamine brain
Good question! This reminds me somewhat of the great and excellent Adolf Hitler, who would distribute sandwiches to the masses. Let’s clone him! Give your money to your local fascist cult!
can i get a hint on that last one
My daughter was doing math, basic second grade math, but the way they teach kids to solved math problems now is just not how we did it 30 years ago, and so when she has a problem, 9+8, and she’s supposed to show her work, I have no idea the methods or anything that she’s using and I am zero help to her.
Definitely not going to ask an AI though, that’s silly.
That 9+8 thing holds true even when helping kindergarteners.
By “show your work” they mean “draw 9 blue pens and 8 red pens and then say you counted 17.”
Teacher do it that way during class and wants everyone to do same but we don’t have the context so us adults overthink it.
Yeah, this is some method of turning the 9 into 10, because it’s easier to add 10 and 7 than it is 9 and 8, but I don’t have enough info to help, because I just get told I’m doing it wrong by my kid. I was never into it either as a kid, but mental math would end up failing me later in life, so I’d like to help her, I just need more info!
Oh I’ve seen that described years ago in reddit. It surprised me back then but when I think about it, all my adult life I’ll do that, by now, instinctively.
I think I also saw to break down e.g. 7+8 into 5+2+5+3.
It’s funny because when I was in school I use to get lectured for not showing my work the way it was taught, but I didn’t like the way it was taught so I came up with my own method. Turns out my method is now what they teach in school (basically, and obviously completely a coincidence).
If you’d like more research and context, the term to search for is “common core math”.
Based on your other comments though, you’ve mostly got it down already though, but for the exact steps you’ll be able to find pretty easily.
Rough example (don’t quote me on it though, not a teacher): 12 x 7 isn’t as “intuitive” as 10 x 7 or 12 x 5. So you do (10 x 7) + (2 x 7) = 70 + 14 = 84. You find the “common” “core” to make it easier, kind of like how we handled multipling fractions. The over all objective is to make it easier to do math quickly in your head, but since they are teaching it to kids, you have to prove you understand the thought process, which makes it seem like it’s just over complicating things.
Either way though, kudos to you for trying to learn the new way and helping your kid with their homework in general. No matter what your kid will turn out great with a parent who shows they care like you do.
another option would be to prove it from first principles using Peano arithmetic. the teacher would probably love that.
It’s the same as 10+4
“Incorrect. 10+4 is equal to 14. However, 4+10 is equal to 14. So yes, 10+4 is the same as 4+10.”
Huh, I’ve lived without ads of any kind other than what I see at the tramstop or going past stores that I never thought about AI ads being a thing. It’s not surprising at all, both their existence and people falling for it, but it’s just such a weird realisation.
The often used idea, in all kinds of media, of someone living in a weird dystopia and not really being aware of it but slowly getting hints and seeing stuff that makes them go “huh, this is some weird shit that’s apparently daily life for a lot of people” is something I feel more and more. And this isn’t some “I’m smarter than them/everyone else” thing, it’s just that my brain is wired in a way where I often get these moments of difference, and I know many people feel the same, especially here. Never used or had interest in AI for anything other than a few minutes of “let’s try this AI image generation thing to make weird shit”.Astrid has like 3/10 music but 10/10 tweets. I love her so much
Sure thing, you want to make a sandwich. What a fun idea to put a twist on a longstanding lunch tradition! I like the way you think! Would you like me to help pull together an organized list of ideas for some delicious breaded creations?
At a gas station i saw a sandwich that said “inspired by AI” we’re getting dumber every day
What was in it
Talkie Toaster created. Red Dwarf timeline confirmed.
To be fair, the users they target really are bumbling idiots who need this.
The most tech literate of the bunch probably brag about being able to do the initial setup for their iPhones/iPads without having to take it to the Genius bar.
I see a frightening amount of women on hinge that answer the promt: who do you to to when you need help (or something) with chatgpt. Or chat gpt wrote my bio or chatgpt things i’m really smart
Oh no I put too much sugar in my sauce. Time to make some dogshit passata cookies instead
