Much more reasonable than that other larger AI scenario piece that has been going around recently

Mfw I have been gooning for free all these years

People who think you need to have optimist outlook of the future to be able to somehow manifest that into being are fucking idiots. I can enjoy my life, while being pretty hopeless about the future for human race, while still trying to do whatever I can to try to make things better.

If you can’t do whatever you believe is right, because you are “pessimistic” about it working the way you want, then in my opinion you have fundamentally flawed view of the life as a whole, and probably don’t know how to deal with negative emotions in a healthy way.

“We act because we have values, not because we know that our actions will definitely succeed”

-Jem Bendell.

And on topic of resiting tech, I work in IT and have more versatile tech skills than most people I know. Show me something that works and is useful, and I won’t resist it just because it is new. But if you keep trying to sell me bullshit disguised as progress, than I will always tell you to fuck off.

If your AI product doesn’t get mass adoption because of my negativity, then it is a shit product.

Comparisons in the article are also stupid. Sure I don’t like coal used over nuclear, but nuclear is also kinda overhyped tech, that has been given so much benefit of doubt, but failed to deliver. Sure there has been some people who are irrationally afraid of it.

“Countries such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Thailand have run from vapes – outlawing them, while permitting traditional tobacco cigarettes for 1.8 billion of their citizens. Better unsafe than sorry.”

Not a cigarette fan, but harder to ban those at this point, but with vapes it is still doable, and if not to protect peoples health, then maybe to avoid e-waste from disposable vapes.

“In the US, Robert F Kennedy Jr runs from vaccines towards natural herd immunity – although he might be having second thoughts now that the risks have become less abstract.” Sure use antivaxxer idiot as an example of a tech critic, instead of anyone credible.

Same with 5G, sure there are conspiracy theories about it, but how about just asking wtf we need that fast internet for everywhere? For my phone use past 50 megabytes it doens’t really make any difference if it gets faster.

“Stories that don’t make us forget that brain chips can liberate paraplegics, robot dogs can protect us from landmines, AI can prevent super bugs and VR can connect us rather than cut us off from reality – even if their vibes are “a bit Black Mirror”.”

This last sentence really revealed the author as a tech bro. -Superbug thing is overhyped, they had used same AI for previous similar study, giving AI extra context that made it easier to solve that. Still impressive, but not representative of AI as a whole.

-VR is the rich kid of tech, always given money and second chance and always fails to deliver anything useful.

-Robot dogs and landmines, really? How about police using robot dogs to target protestors? Much more likely scenario for most people, and we already have used robots to defuse bombs for a long while now.

-Brain chips might liberate paraplegics and then company goes bust or stops supporting the product, re disabling that person. Has already happened with other tech meant to help disabled people. If I had to choose between neuralink (or anything from Musk) and being wheelchair bound for rest of my life, I would still take the latter.

I always consider both good and bad sides of tech, but most of the tech we are hyping now seems to come more down than upsides tbh.

/rant but this article really annoyed me.

Yeah same, I don’t want to dismiss it as useless, just don’t vibe well with the hype people either. So I’m quite critical on what I consider good use case.

I mostly hate AI but constantly try to find actual usecases for it past the hype.

I have made a VST audio effect plugin where I used AI as coding assistant, set up different local AI things, like fabric to get summaries from youtube videos, autogen where I have been testing AI agents, LM studio/Ollama local server etc.

I also use local AI to make instrumentals out of songs for singing practice (UVR).

These things said I’m still bit unimpressed with gen AI. Like sure as tech savvy person I find uses but don’t think any of those are particularly revolutionary as is claimed.

Why I’m on this community, like any other AI community is to follow any developments as I continue this search for actually good use cases. With many things I just don’t find AI reliable enough, or if it’s something I’m good at, I rather use my old non AI workflows.

For what it’s worth, I buy this. We had tech bubbles before but this is so big, while also one of the few sources of growth anymore, while real economy is stagnating.

Fair but I wouldn’t ever work for weapons manufacturing. Also sabotage in that context would have heavy punishment, and at worst could cause collateral damage.

Similar cases with my old company. In my case people who would had suffered the most direct consequences would had been my colleagues who I respect.

But I could totally cause trouble without any backdoor access.

Lol everyone probably fantasizes about such thing sometimes, but even if you weren’t caught, it’s not worth it to personally be bitter like that.

Just got laid off and could had done the same. Except I don’t have to. Internal systems are so bad and undocumented and I was like only IT specialist there who could use linux, and so many things related to core businesses were just basically behind me.

The kill switch has made it self. Funny how I would have written more documentation if I ever was given the time.

Reminder for everyone not to give your period data to sketchy apps, as it can be used to detect pregnancy and used to detect someone having abortion. Sadly this is realistic threat in our day and age.

Well maybe, micro work is really dehumanizing and cognitively rough. I hear some US inmates do work at McDonalds and if I had to choose between that and microwork, and if time I spent working was the same with both options, I would take the fastfood job any day. At least have done that before irl so I know what to expect.

I’m ADHD in IT job, and my mind would explode if work I did with computer was just unskilled datasorting job.

But I do know US inmates have basically slave conditions. But I read a book about microwork and it sounds like psychological torture to me. Like what they do in Severance.

(Work without worker is the book)

I hear they do micro work for mechanical turk in some Finnish prisons. It is optional, but surely won’t teach you anything at all about tech.

I fear he is now in position to force goverment to buy his shit cars. Cybertrucks for cops etc.

Exactly. I know someone who is really smart and works in machine learning and when I listen to him in isolation, AI sounds like actually useful thing. Most people just are not smart like that, and most applications for AI are not very useful.

One of the things I often think is that AI makes it possible to do things that shouldn’t be done very easily and fast, that would had previously been too much effort or craft for some people, like now they can easily make website for whatever grift they are pushing.

This is not by default bad thing, if it is something you only use when you decide to do so, when you don’t have other subtitles available tbh. I hate AI slop too but people just go to monkey brain rage mode when they read AI and stop processing any further information.

I’d still always prefer human translated subtitles if possible. However, right now I’m looking into translating entire book via LLM cause it would be only way to read that book, as it is not published in any language I speak. I speak English well enough, so I don’t really need subtitles, just like to have them on so I won’t miss anything.

For English language movies, I’d probably just watch them without subtitles if those were AI, as I don’t really need them, more like nice to have in case I miss something. For languages I don’t understand, it might be good, although I wager it will be quite bad for less common languages.

TBH I felt this was bit superficial. No concrete examples, I don’t really think adoption curve outside tech people will be that fast to agents, doesn’t really go into how using agents to manipulate people would significantly differ from using non agent chatbot for same end.

I’m still worried how AI agents could be used to do evil, just that I don’t feel any better informed after reading this.

Curious to hear any thoughts on this.

Same, but apparently android app is no longer supported since google play was too annoying for the developer. So wondering how long I can keep it up.

Only just downloaded previous alpha to decide it will become my daily driver once it’s more finished.

I make an exception for one of the best tech outlets

I don’t really like idea, I can’t see how it could be done in anyway that doesn’t lead to already rich people insider trading it.