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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 months ago

Onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI

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Onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 months ago
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at being a person, told reporters Thursday that he saw huge potential in AI. “While it’s still in its early phase, artificial…
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    alright well now we have the perfect response to half the people who pop in from lemmy.world

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      look i think u need 2 approach this ishew with NUANCE

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        brb engraving NUANCE on this baseball cluebat. what’s that, “why?”, oh… no reason…

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      Banned users could be auto-redirected to this article

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      I haven’t seen any issues from this instance. Actually, now we’re talking about it, I see very, very few AI and crypto bros on Lemmy.

      It’s actually very nice.

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        the banhammer is strong in our admins.

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      … There are people on lemmy who think “AI” has merit? Almost everything I see is how shit it is. Which I thought was, well… because it IS shit.

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        Honestly waiting for them to show up and post their absolutely rancid takes is about 20-40% of the fun of this place

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      :(

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    This headline works in a totally different direction as well.

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    I was thinking of this skeet “Giant self-help huckster Tony Robbins is getting in on the AI game. Perfect.”

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      Shilling AI has much fewer downsides that walking on coals I guess

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    Overall a bit too on the nose for my taste, but the final sentence brought it back, stellar landing.

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