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captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

“AI” is certainly a turn-off for me, I would ask a salesman “do you have one that doesn’t have that?” and I will now enumerate why:

  1. LLMs are wrongness machines. They do have an almost miraculous ability to string words together to form coherent sentences but when they have no basis at all in truth it’s nothing but an extremely elaborate and expensive party trick. I don’t want actual services like web searches replaced with elaborate party tricks.
  2. In a lot of cases it’s being used as a buzzword to mean basically anything computer controlled or networked. Last time I looked up they were using the word “smart” to mean that. A clothes dryer that can sense the humidity of the exhaust air to know when the clothes are dry isn’t any more “AI” than my 90’s microwave that can sense the puff of steam from a bag of popcorn. This is the kind of outright dishonest marketing I’d like to see fail so spectacularly that people in the advertising business go missing over it.
  3. I already avoided “smart” appliances and will avoid “AI” appliances for the same reasons: The “smart” functionality doesn’t actually run locally, it has to connect to a server out on the internet to work, which means that while that server is still up and offering support to my device, I have a hole in my firewall. And then they’ll stop support ten minutes after the warranty expires and the device will no longer work. For many of these devices there’s no reason the “smart” functionality couldn’t run locally on some embedded ARM chip or talk to some application running on a PC that I own inside my firewall, other than “then we don’t get your data.”
  4. AI is apparently consuming more electricity than air conditioning. In fact, I’m not convinced that power consumption isn’t the selling point they’re pushing at board meetings. “It’ll keep our friends in the pollution industry in business.”
ATDA ,

To me AI helps me bang out small functions and classes for personal projects and act as a Google alternative for mundane stuff.

Other than that any product that uses it is no different than a digital assistant asking chat gpt to do things. Or at least that seems like the perception from a consumer level.

Besides it’s bad enough I probably use a homes energy trying to make failing programming demos much less ordering pizza from my watch or whatever.

cellardoor ,

No shit Sherlock

x00z ,
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

Well, maybe if they weren’t using AI as a hypeword and just called it adaptive or GPT.

absGeekNZ ,
@absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz avatar

I was at the optometrist recently and saw a poser for some lenses (transitions) that somehow had “AI”…I was like WTF how / why / do you need to carry a small supercomputer around with you as well.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I think there is potential for using AI as a knowledge base. If it saves me hours of having to scour the internet for answers on how to do certain things, I could see a lot of value in that.

The problem is that generative AI can’t determine fact from fiction, even though it has enough information to do so. For instance, I’ll ask Chat GPT how to do something and it will very confidently spit out a wrong answer 9/10 times. If I tell it that that approach didn’t work, it will respond with “Sorry about that. You can’t do [x] with [y] because [z] reasons.” The reasons are often correct but ChatGPT isn’t “intelligent” enough to ascertain that an approach will fail based on data that it already has before suggesting it.

It will then proceed to suggest a variation of the same failed approach several more times. Every once in a while it will eventually pivot towards a workable suggestion.

So basically, this generation of AI is just Cliff Clavin from Cheers. Able to to sting together coherent sentences of mostly bullshit.

verity_kindle ,

Cliffy didn’t hallucinate as much.

xinayder ,

Yet companies are manipulating survey results to justify the FOMO jump to AI bandwagon. I don’t know where companies get the info that people want AI (looking at you Proton).

Sibbo ,

So AMD’s “AI”-supporting CPUs are bound to flop now?

VinnyDaCat ,

Even if AI was absolutely impeccable it will always feel better to use products that involve real human beings.

pastermil ,

Glad to hear I’m not the only one!

TrickDacy ,

I don’t see any mention of any details about the study participants but I wouldn’t expect the general public to have this attitude.

x3x3 ,

My fridge has AI

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