The AI being hyped right now is not AI at all. It’s really important that we all acknowledge this, that the world is selling itself a multi-billion-dollar lemon: predictive text engines that have nothing intelligent about them. They’re giant sorting machines, which is why they’re so good at identifying patterns in scientific research, and could genuinely advance medicine in wonderful ways. But what they cannot do is think, and as such, it’s a collective mass-delusion that these systems have any use in our day-to-day lives beyond plagiarism.
Goddamn, a gaming outlet saying what the serious grown-up press should have been saying from the start!
I’m an old fart - I got my degree in CS in 1985, and I’ve been paying attention to the predictions and advancements in AI for a very long time. I have at least as much issue with the way people think and talk about it as the author, but probably less of an issue with it being called AI. Remember that for decades, the informal working definition of AI was “A computer doing anything that usually requires a human.” So for ages, they said we’d have AI if a computer could read a page of printed text out loud in English. That seemed almost unattainable when it was first talked about, but now it’s so trivial that no one would consider it AI.
People have tried to make definitions that are crisper than that, but few if any of those definitions requires anything we’d call “thinking.” The frustrating thing is that the general public talks all the time about AI as if it’s conscious . Even when we’re talking about its flaws, we use words like “hallucinating,” which is something only thinking beings can do.
To me, LLMs are the worst things because to so many people they seem like the are (or could be) thinking entities. They respond to questions in a lifelike manner and can construct (extrapolate?) somewhat novel responses. But they’re also the least useful to us as a society. I’m much more interested in the Machine Learning applications for distilling gobs of data to develop new medicines or identify critical items in images that humans don’t have the mental bandwidth for. But LLMs get all the press.
No arguments to what you wrote.
I’d add that llms are increasingly the only way I can find useful technical information on anything anymore.
Of course this is solving a problem that shouldn’t fucking exist in the first place, and I still need to take that information back to a search engine to verify it and do actual research, which may be the point.
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Search is so. Fucking. Broken.
I honestly never look at the AI results because they’re so flawed so often. I don’t have an awful lot of problems finding answers to things with a standard search and then scrolling past any sources that are often crap. Worth noting, by the way, that search results, especially Google’s, were way more accurate several years ago, before there were so many sponsored results and they had agendas to push. So technologically, it’s a fixable situation, it’s just the enshitificaiton problem.
Not that I’m taking a dig, but what are you looking for that only Ai can find it?
It’s less about only being able to find it with ai but more about being able nail down definitions and understand the relationships between concepts well enough to know what to actually search for online.
This applies to anything remotely technical. Search results produce hot fucking garbage and the only way to find what you’re looking for these days is to know exactly what you’re looking for before you search. And even then it’s a crapshoot whether you’ll surface anything useful.
Ahh I see what you mean. Yes, I run into that as well. Usually my first try is to search technical forums directly as opposed to google but AI can do the job as well.
“Yeah, let’s try it. [Korean-style steak sauce is] not something I’ve made before,” says Mancuso, remembering his script, “so I could definitely use the help.”
Then at the end of the article they embed an Instagram video from 2023 of Mancuso making a Korean-style steak sauce. *chef’s kiss*
Try not to imagine what the money he’s blown on AI could have been spent on that would actually benefit mankind.
Don’t forget about “the Metaverse”. You know, the thing he spent tens of billions of dollars on, renamed the company after, then promptly abandoned to chase AI grifting.
Attention span of a Golden Retriever puppy, but none of the cuteness.
OMG thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed such a public fucking catastrophe.
I kinda respect them for actually attempting a live demo but I also can’t believe they were stupid enough to try it a live demo.
Then they try to use WiFi as a copout 🤣
Who doesn’t had an instance where the WiFi messed up a chatbot making it to ignore the instructions.
ChatGPT is a unstable connection away to become full Skynet, that’s why I only use it with the PC wired to the router.
Enjoyed this? Also watch Mark trying and failing to answer a video call on the thing.
All in all, it’s a shame.
The ‘texting’ demo they did with Mark writing a text message via “pen motions” was pretty neat.
It feels like Google’s “GLASS” vision finally coming to fruition, problem is, we’re not in 2013 anymore.
A product like this demands high trust in the company behind it to work and Google, Facebook, etc, have evaporated any trust I had in them.
It’s a sad state of affairs, a product like this felt like the future back then. It used to be so exciting, nowadays I can’t be excited for this stuff anymore… 👎Honestly I don’t get excited about any new tech outside of FOSS spaces. Tech used to be made to make your life better and now it’s almost exclusively used to exploit you.
Why they clapping, and laughing. Fuck Zuck doesn’t test these things before hand? All those billionaires of dollars and it makes a fool of himself. What fucking moron. Well like Ron White said, Can’t fix stupid.
How the fuck this dumbass get so rich?
That seems like something that could be fixed pretty easily, as opposed to the AI stuff that’s fundamentally flawed. You could even see it register the input, it just failed to actually pick up the call.
The neural wristband they demonstrated was actually extremely impressive and I can see a lot of different practical usecases for such a device.
Hey guys! Want a way to do everything you can do on your cell phone but 100 times worse and more expensive? Well check out this piece of shit!
lol, this reminded me of the MS surface parody. “Instead of using one of today’s more popular compact devices to get directions to where you’re going, why not use a device the size of a small car to do the same job?”
It always seems weird to me that they didn’t market it for its true potential, as a D&D and board game medium.
I built one myself with diffusive plastic, a short throw projector, and a PS3 camera, and it ruled.
Direct link, it’s great https://bsky.app/profile/shacknews.com/post/3lz344mxmb22a
Do these guys even know how to do a rigged demo?
Also, in case you’d rather just see:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7ffxkcsq2xwt3t2mbk52puc/post/3lz344mxmb22a
I’ve had my share of botched tech demos, so I can empathize. Steve Jobs, during an early iPhone demo legitimately blamed the Moscone Center wifi (I was there).
But this was just bad demo planning at every level. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop laughing.
Wow, that’s a terribly written article, or whatever type of text this is pretending to be.
Blame the wifi
/s
I feel like I’m going to end up overusing the joke of blaming the WiFi for increasingly absurd things, because this is hilarious
Don’t you have some meat to smoke, Zuck?
Your are right, it’s better to get drunk and go into weird adolescent hyperbole about stuff we don’t understand and one up each other until we pass out.
His demo got demoed?
