• @[email protected]
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    751 year ago

    Alternate take: this is the same sort of mark self-sorting that scam artists use.

    A reasonable person isn’t gonna reply to a typo-ridden email from a Nigerian prince. But those few who do are going to be easy to get everything from.

    Imagine you’re an executive at the company your dad founded. You’re an idiot. Everyone knows you’re an idiot. But you think you’re smart. This guy is willing to consult with you about how your company will use AI (for a modest fee, of course). You don’t understand AI, but you think you do, and you just need someone to help with the details. And everyone has to nod their heads and agree to pay him because they’re afraid of getting fired.

    You don’t have to fool everyone.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    You can suggest that. It shows the world that you’re an idiot, but you are technically allowed to suggest it.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    We the People Who Work In Tech, welcome you to the World of bullshit meisters making insane stuff up around your domain expertise area.

    We’ve been living in it since at least the late 90s.

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    As someone who studied CS at uni for 3 years I saw first hand how there’s plenty of idiots in this field. Two of my classmates identified as Nazis and thought that the holocaust didn’t happen, besides a significant chunk leaning to the right more generally.

    There’s plenty of really smart people working in the field of AI, but there’s also plenty of people who just think they’re smart.

    • @[email protected]
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      461 year ago

      I think this pretty much applies to all fields. Everything looks complicated and hard to outside people, but once you get into the field, you realize that most people are just average.

      • @[email protected]
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        331 year ago

        Plus with very specialized fields you get the effect of “really great at this one thing and absolutely nothing else”.

        If that One Thing ends up being worth a lot of money, these people often end up with a SUPER inflated sense of self importance…

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    321 year ago

    This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc2 in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

    The funny thing is that that’s literally all I remember about that talk. I don’t remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

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      Ted talks went from mildly interesting to Deepak Choprarian nonsense so insanely fast.

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        I just listened to the most recent Behind the Bastards on forensic ‘science’ used in court cases and Robert played a clip of one guy who had a Ted talk where he spoke about how he uses divining rods to find dead bodies buried in the ground.

        The worst part is this guy is still employed in the field, testifies as an expert witness to get people convicted of crimes, grifts families of missing persons claiming he can find them for a fee based on their body’s “unique frequency” (obtained from fingernail clippings), consults/instructs law enforcement on his techniques using taxpayer funds, and worked until recently at the famous body farm at the Univeristy of Tennessee.

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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        161 year ago

        Tedx is a service you pay to come and pretend you have words worth saying, like how you pay Guinness world records to come and hand you a fancy plaque

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      141 year ago

      Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing “crosses” in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they’re profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.

      • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]
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        81 year ago

        My favorite was the one who claimed to have converted to christianity after seeing 3 waterfalls and because he saw three of something one time that means the trinity is real.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          61 year ago

          Imagine what wild beliefs he’d be lurching into if that story were remotely true. Wild that people seem to be into it

  • flan [they/them]
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    111 year ago

    I have never met a real linkedin Poster before. They must be amazing in person.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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      221 year ago

      Yes, but that does not mean AI has 0 influence. Rather, AI is a circle, a shape with no beginning or end, suggesting that AI has endless and infinite potential. Now, let’s say you want to remove AI from the equation - imagining a world without AI. What happens when you divide by zero? You can’t, because dividing by zero is undefined. Thusly, a world (future or past) without AI is now an impossibility. This is simply the laws of mathematics.

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  • @[email protected]
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    491 year ago

    I can suggest an equation that has the potential to change the future…

    E = MC² + S

    S stands for sandwich…because I’m having one, for lunch…

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        I think that fact was overshadowed by the likely stupidity of the original prompt. (“Add AI to e=mc^2” or something)

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          LLMs are only capable of average stupidity unless they luck their way into hallucinating utter madness, it takes a real human to come up with something as condensed stupid as “e=mc² + AI”

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    521 year ago

    I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

    Acetyl-CoA + 3H2O + 3NAD+ + FAD + ADP + Pi → 2CO2 + 3NADH + 3H+ + FADH2 + CoA-SH + ATP + H2O + AI

    This combines the Krebs Cycle which relates to glucose metabolism with the addition of artificial intelligence (AI). By including AI in the equation, it symbolises my ability to wank myself to completion without touching my cock, simply by massaging my engorged ego.