• @[email protected]
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    810 months ago

    I had to talk to some company’s chatbot yesterday that was just if/else powered. That sure was cumbersome to do. It couldn’t even tell me the company’s mailing address.

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      I was forced to use bing while searching for some info on the internet, when I’d click on what looked like a useful result, I would instead get CoPilot slowly summarizing the info I needed back to me, and obscuring the source… Who the fuck though that was a good idea?

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      That’s when they don’t want you to bother them with shit you could’ve read on their website (or a more restricted FAQ), but also care about not telling you bullshit. So rather than going full AI with hallucinations and what not, they give you predetermined answers in a “friendly” AI-ish way.

    • borari
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      710 months ago

      This looks like this guy is being force fed a spoon full of mdma rocks and I want to be committed to this specific nursing home when I’m old.

  • Chemical Wonka
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    What a company calls “AI powered” in fact is stolen data and or underpaid workers on the periphery of capitalism

  • Flying SquidM
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    Hey, just four days ago their selling point was that it had a rainbow on it.

    Anything to make a buck.

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      There are pencils like the Uni Kuru Toga line which have a motor to create auto-rotating lead, and the Pentel Orenz Nero 0.2mm which constantly pushes out lead so you don’t have to keep clicking. So… close enough?

  • @[email protected]
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    710 months ago

    The AI arm race has done so much damage to the environment and is creating more ewaste also. It sucks.

    • Resol van Lemmy
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      910 months ago

      I’ve seen a DankPods video about an “AI powered” rice cooker, turns out it was a marketing tactic to sell more of them. It’s actually just an ordinary rice cooker.

  • SSTF
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    1510 months ago

    The answer to the original riddle is “Sure, can I have your phone to make a demonstration. Great. I’ll sell the phone and pen back as a package deal for $100.”

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      210 months ago

      I always thought a good one was to put the pen in your pocket and refuse to give it back. Make him name his price. Clearly it’s yours, not his. Otherwise how could you sell it to him?

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        110 months ago

        To a person like that a mere pen is basically worthless as a hostage.

          • SSTF
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            That’s why my proposed solution is to take the phone though. Much more valuable hostage.

  • @[email protected]
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    1010 months ago

    There was some LLM-powered pen in the makings, I haven’t heard about it since. Was part of the Rabbit/AI Pin style of AI junk.

  • @[email protected]
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    9510 months ago

    “It’s so great! It automatically writes the [wrong] answers to everything for you!”

    • Random_Character_A
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      So many things just needs something that looks right and is not too long or too short. Nobody will actually read it with some thought. It only matters that it exists.

      For bureaucratic bullshit like that AI is a godsend.

      • @[email protected]
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        810 months ago

        Only if you’re working with sycophants or morons.

        Unfortunately, there are a LOT of those in life…

        • Random_Character_A
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          In many things you need to be accredited by a third party according to some standards and they audit you periodically. They demand that you have shitload of plans, programs, reports, logs and other paperwork required by those standards.

          Auditors mostly only care that the paperwork exists and only focus on the contents on key aspects that are usually clear and short.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      It’s also powered by ChatGPT, and by powered I mean it’s literally chatGPT and a bunch of code I stole thanks to YouTube videos anyways GIVE ME MONEY.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s like the late ‘90s where they tried to connect every common activity to the internet, like bar codes in the newspaper for coupons online.

    They got it “right” when they stopped trying to make non-internet things direct you to the internet and just moved the non-internet things to the internet.

    Now they’re trying to cram AI into everything. What’s the next step…moving your brain into the AI?