@researchbuzz@tjdraper@neurovagrant let's be fair, most of the posts on LinkedIn already read like they were AI generated, with all that hustle culture bullshit
@tjdraper I still have no idea what to use all this so-called "AI" for. I'm happy to use new things if they are useful. This mostly isn't.
Of course, Machine Learning has been around for quite a while and has a lot of use cases. I have used it successfully to enhance video. But the stuff they're pushing out now is 99% utterly useless and only exists to inflate stock prices because we're in a bubble.
@veronica@tjdraper I struggle to imagine a world where someone could invent a universal function approximator without a lot of people finding it very useful. The mind-boggling part is where someone thought "The next word that a sycophantic redittor would most likely type" might be a useful function to approximate.
@tjdraper Logitech pushing AI features you have no way to opt out from through the software that helps you set mouse sensitivity got me really pissed last week...
@tjdraper AI in most cases just means "better auto complete" and I think it's pretty useful as that. I use GitHub Copilot and it saves me some boring typing of lists etc.
The thing is, there's an effect where nontechnical people will start believing the ads after a time. So when @nextcloud has to compete with Microsoft/Google/etc for contracts from big companies/governments, at some point some idiot in a meeting will say "yeah but Google Docs 365 has the AI thing, we should take that one because it's super awesome", and then nextcloud needs something to point at so they can say "yeah no problem dude, we got that too" and not loose the contract.
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