When I hear “AI”, I think of that thing that proofreads my emails and writes boilerplate code. Just a useful tool among a long list of others. Why would I spend emotional effort hating it? I think people who “hate” AI are just as annoying as the people pushing it as the solution to all our problems.
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago[deleted]
renzev@lemmy.world 3 months ago
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I don’t think anybody hates computers or spell check. It’s the grifters pushing phony “AI”.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Hi there GreenKnight23!
I don’t think it’s necessarily you personally they find a waste of time… it might be the layers of fluff that most business emails contain. They don’t know if you’re the sort of person who expects it.
Best Regards,
Explodicle<br> Internet Comment Writer<br> sh.itjust.works
Tja@programming.dev 3 months ago
If I just hand wave all the good things and call them bullshit, AI is nothing more than bad things!
- Lemmy
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What do you think AI has to do with crypto, other than that they are both technologies which have entered the mainstream recently and been pushed hard? Like, what do they actually have in common?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Current “AI’s” (LLMs) are only useful for art and non-fact based text. The two things people particularly do not need computers to do for them.
IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Llms fucking suck. But that’s the worst kind of ai. It’s just an autocorrect on steroids. But you know what a good ai is? The one that give an amino acid sequence predicts it’s 3d structure. It’s mind boggling. We can design personal protein robots with that kind of knowledge.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I agree, but the reason for all the AI hate is companies pushing LLMs, calling them AIs, and treating them like some miracle that is worth all the energy they consume. If we try to differentiate between LLMs and AI then the AI hate will go away.
yankaremonsters@leminal.space 3 months ago
hey bitch youre killed two people in your trolley problem. You suck bro. Why did you kill two people? You should be attached on the track bro, not gonna lie.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Frfr no cap
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
it’s not even impressive enough to make a positive world impact in the 2-3 years it’s been publicly available.
It literally just won people two Nobel prizes
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How does that help the rest of us?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It allows us to predict the structure of proteins before we make them. This can speed up research into protein-based medical treatments by astronomical amounts-- drugs which took years to develop through trial and error and/or thousands of hours of computational power can now be predicted beforehand in terms of their structure, which allows us to predict how they interact woth the proteins in our body. It’s an incredible breakthrough in the speed of medical research.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 months ago
with the compute power required for models like alphafold, my guess is it will be at the monopoly of some corporation which will charge exorbitant prices for any drugs it develops through AI. Not a fault of AI itself, just fucking parasitic shareholder pigs which we should have eaten long ago.
bignate31@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s hype like this that breaks the back of the public when “AI doesn’t change anything”. Don’t get me wrong: AlphaFold has done incredible things. We can now create computational models of proteins in a few hours instead of a decade. But the difference between a computational model and the actual thing is like the difference between a piece of cheese and yellow plastic: they both melt nicely but you’d never want one of them in your quesadilla.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I am talking about them winning the award
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Hooray for them. \s
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
If AI image generation is so bad why we have so many etsy and patreon artists complaining about it?
If no one would use it because it is so bad why would anyone care that it is trained on their products?
Do you know this joke about MAGA and the Schrodinger’s immigrant? They somehow believe that immigrants are both stealing people jobs and lazy and living on wellfare.
AntiAI bros are somehow similar. AI is at the same time stealing artists jobs and completely useless incapable of producing nothing that people would want.
Vigge93@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You are ignoring ALL of the of the positive applications of AI from several decades of development, and only focusing on the negative aspects of generative AI.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of some applications:
There have even been a lot of good applications of generative AI, e.g. in production, especially for construction, where a generative AI can the functionally same product but with less material, while still maintaining the strength. This reduces cost of manufacturing, and also the environmental impact due to the reduced material usage.
Does AI have its problems? Sure. Is generative AI being misused and abused? Definitely. But just because some applications are useless it doesn’t mean that the whole field is.
A hammer can be used to murder someone, that does not mean that all hammers are murder weapons.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 months ago
He’s already given you 5 examples of positive impact. You’re just moving the goalposts now.
I’m happy to bash morons who abuse generative AIs in bad applications and I can acknowledge that LLM-fuelled misinformation is a problem, but don’t lump “all AI” together and then deny the very obvious positive impact other applications have had (e.g. in healthcare).
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Who’s upvoting this? Is Lemmy really this scientifically illiterate?
IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
LLMs fucking suck. But there are things that don’t suck. AI chess engines have entirety changed the game, AI protein predictors have made designer drugs and nanobots come within our grasp.
It’s just that tech bros want to grab quick cash from us peasants and that somehow equates to integrating chat gpt into everything. The most moronic of AI has become their poster child. It’s like if we asked people what a US president is like in character and everybody showed Trump to them as an example.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Imaginary and unproven cases for non-existent “intelligence”.
mayo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
These are not imaginary uses cases. Are you generally critical of technology?