Smell me this pen
Snnfff
It’s AI powered.
(I should make this)
I recently (under duress) bought my kid a talking electronic toy, and the box read “Does NOT Connect to Internet,” which at this point I would consider a major plus.
Agreed, that IS a major plus. A good old fashioned red wagon or as nice wooden sled (No AI) is better than 90% of this e-waste. I would latch into that “no ai” box advertisement ad well.
Frustratingly, even adult toys 🍆🍑 come with AI now. 🫤
I’ve said it before Ai has uses, about 5% of what it’s being shoved into.
For example I was working with a optical measurement system company. You basically took a bunch of photos of what you wanted measured, they would put it through a Ai system and determine the optimal light, contrast, tool, and etc settings to set and then you could use that to setup your system and measure thousands more devices.
Thats probably a system Ai is good at, and they had a chart like with “x photos expect y accuracy, with z photos expect a accuracy” with like 20 options. It was especially good if you could give as accurate of reading possoble, or optimally just “these are good, these are bad”.
For sure, one thing that is dumb is when I see companies being all “it’s AI powered now” with something that can EASILY be covered by some if/else statements lol. It’s not rocket science, it’s basic programming that we’ve had around for decades.
Yeah, that’s my point. I don’t think we have enough people of lemmy but on other sites post a definition of Ai (or generative Ai) and you will get 100 different answers and 500 people arguing that each is an incorrect definition.
Generative AI is just a slopnmachine but people do really cool shit with non generative AI.
Like a while back I watched a video where a dude made an AI to balance a double pendulum. Now is there a use case to the specific thing I mentioned? No, but it was cool. People love making AI to play games, there was that AI awhile back that played (I think) DOTA 2 really well. Also cool.
But ueah, AI that isn’t generative can be useful and/or cool. AI only can be actually good at the one thing it was trained to do.
Even generative Ai has minor uses… For example I’ve used before we had a database with multiple tables but one included the the device serial number, a test type, and a test guid. Another table actually had the details of each test keyed by that test guid.
My boss would commonly send me list of serial numbers(not formatted, just space separated) and a request the test details for each device. I would setup a query for 1 serial number that returned the requested information, go onto copilot/chatgpt and say something like “write a query like this but with with all these serial numbers”. Yes I could do it my self, copy the list in, erase the space, add a comma, add a new line, repeat for each serial number(largest request o got ever was 650). The Ai got it in seconds and I verified several serial numbers picked randomly. I don’t recall it ever not working as expected. That’s a small use case and I gave lots of context.
You could also have written a script to query the entries for you. Instead of asking chatgpt to do it very resource intensively for you, spend a minor amount of time writing the script and once its done you can just run it each time your boss sends you more serial numbers.
This is the thing with LLMs. Its not really solving anything. It’s wasteful to the point of absurdity to complete tasks that are already very easily completable in far simpler and less costly ways. Its like using a block chain to perform arithmetic. You could, you could do that, but why? Why would you waste all those resources to achieve the same thing you already can?
And thats all fine and well until you get a case where it trips up and gets something really important wrong. Then its a liability. And unlike if an individual makes a mistake, an LLM cant just be told to be more careful. Its not a person, it is static at the time it is built. It cannot learn, only rebuild which is also extremely resource intensive and costly. It cannot know anything either, it just generates outputs based on the static parameters defined and tuned when it was built.
You are right but I was using it mainly for formatting, not writing the script. Granted I could of written a single purpose script to strip space, add a comma and add a new line.
I wrote the script of how to pull the data, I was mostly using it to format the lists my boss sent me.
I didn’t just take the email, copy into Ai, copy result back to email and send. I wrote the script for 1 serial, asked Ai to modify it for the following 150 serials, run it in smms, then send results.
If you were my boss, would you want me to spend my time doing… Backspace, comma, enter, down arrow…150 times? Especially if you need results fast? Yeah I could but why? Unless it was just a lazy day and felt like drooling on the keyboard.
I need a pen…but I will not buy THAT pen.
Because it’s AI powered.
I was just thinking about this the other day. I was thinking how I could literally make solid wood blocks, like what babies play with, slap on an “AI Powered” label, and raise millions on Kickstarter in a matter of minutes after making some posts about it in genAI friendly spaces.
I want to be psyopped by underground UwUs!
Don’t give them ideas
why is there an ad in the bottom left corner? did my Ublock filters not update?
