DaleGribble88
@DaleGribble88@programming.dev
College Prof in the US, focus areas are Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 5 days ago:
I mean, if you use the AI incompetentlyvand lazily sure? I think if you use anything incompetently and lazily you’ll get that result. The trick is to not be an absolute dumbass and then you’ll be fine. Know what can and cannot do well, then use it where appropriate to take advantage of the 80/20 rule.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 5 days ago:
Oh brother, you have no idea, do you?
This shit is a cancer that has spread all through b2b processes. If you’ve bought gasoline over the last 6 months, all of that was coordinated via AI. Everything from order placement, rights trading & selling, distribution route planning, etc. it’s also worth noting how many phone support jobs have shifted to AI.
Pretty much all fraud monitoring for banks are run by AI now. Both checking transactions and if you call and report a fraudulent charge directly.
Further, you are using Lemmy right now. It is almost certainly running in a docker container, which a tool developed with AI contributions and an integrated AI feature set, and inside of that docker container is almost certainly a Linux distribution, which was developed with AI integrations.
It all ties back to my point that if someone was going to completely shun all things powered by AI, they would basically have to disengage with any system that has been actively developed, updated, or almost even just maintained over the last few years. It isn’t ubiquitous yet, but it is fast approaching that point.
Isn’t this, like, explicitly because of AI
I mean, more or less, yes? That is essentially the point that I was making. The old ways aren’t as effective anymore because they have been replaced with AI. And just not effective as in effective when compared to using AI, but not effective because the infrastructure, systems, and communities that made the old ways possible have been uprooted.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 6 days ago:
On the contrary, it does a great job with responding to work Emails! I paste in the chain and prompt it “How can I tell this person to fuck off in corporate speak?” And I haven’t been fired yet! ;)
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 6 days ago:
Same energy as this Simpsons clip.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 6 days ago:
Something a friend and I were discussing today was that you can’t really avoid AI and remain productive right now. (We both teach university Computer Science.)
Ignoring how so much of modern society is running on it, you’d have to complete isolate to avoid it and it’s reach entirely.
Additionally, the tooling and infrastructure to support how things were done just a few years ago has all been stripped away. Online search is ass on every major engine right now, most of the forums are dead, documentation and discussion lives inside of private Discord channels. It feels like there just isn’t a back to go back to anymore.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 6 days ago:
Probably speaking to the choir here, but I do feel it is worth pointing out that those same algorithms were considered AI until like 3-5 years ago when the zeitgeist shifted to AI=Transformers/LLMs
- Comment on business is business 2 weeks ago:
In my experience, items are only worth what someone is actually willing to pay. Because if it is priced so high that no one in your target demographic is actually willing to pay that much, it is just unrealized gains. And for most people, an unrealized gain is equivalent to 0.
I see this a lot in the MTG community. People will say a card is worth $200 because that is what they list for on eBay. I ask if they’ve ever had an offer for that much - and the answer is almost exclusively no. I tell them that the ones listed on eBay are the ones that aren’t selling. The real value is less because no one actually buying them for $200, that is the cutoff where people stopped buying the card and so the listings stay up.
- Comment on Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company 4 weeks ago:
So… Why aren’t all these AI companies getting charged with multiple cybercrimes?
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 5 weeks ago:
Lateral numbers is my preferred term
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
In some sense yeah, I’ve heard from some of my more affluent friends buying multiple copies for different platforms. For example, I know someone with at least 4 different copies of GTA-V
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 1 month ago:
Personally, I’d be very against medical records. Some folks have diseases and disorders which are grossly misunderstood by the public at large, and even civil servants deserve to return to a normal life after they leave office.
- Comment on foil 2 months ago:
You are thinking of y’all, which is a southern American slang contraction of “you all.” However, this person put “ya’ll,” so it’s a contraction of “ya will.”
Either way, neither really fits on the context of the sentence. I wish they had just said poor addicts if that’s who they meant to imply. Shame on me for projecting if I’m misinterpreting.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 2 months ago:
He also complained about steel and concrete being expensive factors in their production. Doesn’t every major construction project use a lot of steel and concrete? Including traditional power plants that run on fossil fuels?
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 2 months ago:
Just because a random Internet stranger doesn’t know a better solution off the top of their head, doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem to be clearly seen.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 2 months ago:
Oh they call me the fireman, cause baby that’s my name…
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 2 months ago:
Fair enough! I personally try to stick to preferred names and pronouns, but to err is human and I do make mistakes pretty often.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 2 months ago:
I’ve had a good number of trans people in my classes over the years. I’ve frankly been shocked by the number of people who do not care if you guess their gender correctly. Obviously it isn’t the norm, but they are out there.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 2 months ago:
Por que no los dos?
- Comment on wth 3 months ago:
In my experience, good boobs are appreciated by everyone across the gender and sexuality spectrum
- Comment on This place is a prison 3 months ago:
Did you know that 1 in 5 car crashes involve a drunk driver? That means that in 4 out of 5 crashes, everyone is completely sober! It is way safer to drive while intoxicated! Pour yourself another cup, it’s the only way to be responsible.
- Comment on This place is a prison 3 months ago:
I mean, no one is going to do calculus sober
- Comment on heater 3 months ago:
It means that your fuse is still working for at least a couple more minutes
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 3 months ago:
Forget Brent Spinner as data, give me that independence day drip
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 3 months ago:
It also pulls double duty by making math look hard, ambiguous, and untrustworthy. Anti education, poor reasoning skills, and an implicit distrust of mathematical models and statistics.
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 3 months ago:
That’s actually what the dots represent, values in a ratio when written in a sensible notation
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 4 months ago:
The fact that it launched and didn’t have a shopping cart for 3 years is all it takes to know that it was never intended to be a serious competitor. A simple shopping cart is trivial to implement with modern programming tools, and even if it wasn’t, it should be part of the minimum viable product for any digital store front.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 4 months ago:
You’d make that bet, but I wouldn’t. And only one of us is guaranteed to have money walking out of the casino
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 4 months ago:
Monopoly is definitely the word, but they also don’t appear to be overly abusive about their market position.
- Comment on Womp, womp. 5 months ago:
Wait, shouldn’t the number go up since the job became available?
- Comment on Fun game 5 months ago:
True, but that doesn’t affect the win conditions of the game. All this really means is that the game cannot end in a draw and that players can effectively skip their turn at any point.
