They’re going to keep doing this, because they essentially have a monopoly. Apple is the only real competitor, and they’re paying Google for AI now, so same-same.
I think Linux on desktop is at about 3%, but rising lately. That’s not enough to change their minds, but it is a good alternative. Linux Mint is where I’ve been for the past year and a half. As long as you don’t absolutely need Adobe or AutoCAD products, etc., it’s a stable, and useful alternative.
Valve is making good progress on pushing Linux. I think other companies could also follow suit. The only real reason Microsoft is so dominant is because windows comes preloaded.
“Profoundly impressive”?
I find nothing profound about it at all. It’s a devastating resource hog, it’s wrong a lot of the time, it’s manipulated by its owners to deliver the messages they want or avoid inconveniencing them, it lends itself to the further stupidification of humans who are too lazy to fact check(that’s almost everyone), it’s used to make video lies in the face of objective truth and sexually humiliate women.
Honestly, fuck AI.
Why it couldn’t be strictly deployed as a backup to human skill such as looking for cancer, trying to formulate better drugs, etc. instead of the invasive garbage it is being used to get rid of humans.
Ai is great. It can detect cancers earlier. It can optimize traffic lights to reduce travel times and accidents. It can calculate folds of proteins. It can find and summarize tiny details from huge sets of data.
Fuck cramming it into my operating system though. I don’t need an LLM to run a query on Lightroom and give me a summary of the application and suggest how I can download and install it when it is already installed on my system and I just want to filter my list of apps so I don’t need to scroll halfway down my programs list to open it.
The problem isn’t AI. The problem is the people selling it.
Why did you just say what I said while initially contradicting me yet ignore the valid ctiticisms?
I find nothing profound about it at all.
Honestly, fuck AI.
I was under the assumption that you were against AI all together, not just the data-scraping privacy-violating megacorp deployments of LLMs.
If this was a verbal conversation you’d think that was a normal response instead of someone picking a fight.
The reply correctly highlighted the idea that AI is ‘impressive’. It wasn’t a denial of your critiques of AI.
Making sand output what feels like a real conversation is impressive. Making nuclear bombs is impressive. Bad things can be impressive.
I didn’t say the potential capabilities weren’t impressive. Creating interesting things from text prompts is impressive. I do not find it profound.
My friend installed a local LLM copilot to his computer and asked it if he had any extra files that could be deleted. It just doesn’t seem smart to query a LLM when people have hard coded apps that will do the same. I have a space saving program that searches app directories and my files and lists unwanted files that I van delete to save space. Why are we remaking the wheel with half of the bloat LLMS is trash
Shit human pushing shit tech that makes people stupider, encourages them to kill themselves, worships fascism, and destroys the planet. Yeah, wow, go figure.
Any image or video? Can it generate a video of what I did with your mom last night?
He might read it, but he’s got a lot of money telling him not to listen.
I love the fact that the idiot reckons he can just bluster his way out of this. People are really upset about the decisions Microsoft are making, and it’s not as if they don’t have competition. His response to all of this is to quadruple down on his already brainless decision.
No company in history has ever deserved to lose as much as Microsoft has.
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LLMs ARE impressive! Impressive as hell! But the use case is limited and I do not want that shit jammed in my OS.
Tell ya what. We’re going to shove them in your OS. We’re going to put them in your tv. We’re going to put them in your toaster. We’re going to put them in hour bed. Yeah. We’re going to track when you sleep. We’re going to put it in your toilet. Then we’re going to report all that information to advertisers, who will sell you fiber suppliments, and white noise machines.
And we’ll make you get a digital ID. And track your every movement. Even your bowel movements! And then we’ll have microsoft clippy ask if you’d like to schedule a colonoscopy!
Welcome to the future! The future is dumb…
Being unable to get my computer to do what I want because I don’t know how it works is less frustrating than being unable to get my computer to do what I want because •it• doesn’t know how it works.
What’s worse is when your computer software manufacturer makes such a bad, unintuitive product that they have to invent an artificial super intelligence just to help you figure out how to use it.
Exactly why I’m switching to Linux!
Imagine if Nokia pushed Snake as hard as Microsoft is pushing AI.
Lots of tech and science is super cool. Time dilation and its compensation is incredible. I don’t want that to be the main focus of my phone or OS, but I’m glad we use it for GPS satellites. It’s not a multi trillion dollar industry that should take up a sizable chunk of energy usage, nor should it be a large percent of US GDP.
Always seems to be the people who understand computers the least that are tasked with selling these products or managing the companies they makes them. By these products I do of course mean AI and microsoft
1990s Dilbert comics, but in real life.
Brother, no matter how impressed you are/aren’t with “AI”, just make it optional! Remember when people flocked to a product because of how good it was, and how much it improved on things? Maybe your product isn’t so self-evidently great as you think it is.
The security and privacy are reversed. It’s additional privacy and potential security concerns.
Every other update in ANYTHING has this shit shoveled at us. My god it’s getting so annoying. I had to look up how to get my search bar to stop freaking asking me to ask Google AI about my search! Every goddamn search!
