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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

So there is a huge gap of perception of IA and LLM betweet tech people and other people.

You are correct that there are reasons tech people are more inclined to like these things, but it’s not really because AI is useful to them.

Actually, here’s a good video about its usefulness.

I think the reason tech people are so bought into it is a combination of

their careers depending on them liking the new tech thing,
a general sci-fi inspired enthusiasm for what can be accomplished,
a dash of everyone here being an introvert with no friends,
and the misconception that, because they can engineer something, they are smarter than the people around them.

That last bullet, I don’t know if you remember the contemptuous rivalry between stem majors and the arts or humanities, any major that was less “useful”—that’s the exact smug attitude I’m talking about. There are a lot of people who think they could just program away life’s many problems.

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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m a very techy person and am vastly more fascinated by tech from 1977 to around 2010 than anything today. Most stuff today is boring and serves only to surveil and destroy our lives bit by bit. Besides medical advancements.

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- petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah… :/
  
  I just like video games.
  
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  - bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Same. But I’m 1000% more impressed by devs getting Crash to run on ps1 than I am by ubisoft cranking out slop every year that requires accounts and data theft, and constant updates to a never finished game.
    
    I just want a game that is done. I hate this constant updates bull. It ruins replayability for games too and kills any nostalgia a young person may ever have because they keep changing it more and more and then eventually shut servers down for a game you paid for. Most things suk now.
    
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Poteau_Poutre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I like the top comment of the video you suggested. It sums up the current issue : “A computer can never be held responsible, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” - IBM training manual, 1979 Decisions cannot be automated. Many jobs require a lot of decision making and taking responsibility of these decisions.

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