At least copilot only does shit when you click on it, even if it is useless.
Unlike Google, which wastes tons of electric and water every single search without the users consent. That is a lot more damaging to society than whatever Microsoft does.
I’m blown away that they actually named it copilot. I would have thought they’d name it something stupid like "my computer* or “xbox” or “me”.
Functional programmers when the content of their PC’s memory change (no longer safe, and no longer upholds functional programming paradigms):
System76 2k PC
Love the person in the background getting up, looking over and just sitting back down again like Greg sledgehammering his monitor to pieces is nothing extraordinary
It will collapse due to the AI slop(e)
I love how accurate this image is. As they hammer more the structure becomes more and more unstable.
I’ve noticed the AI search suggestions from Bing and Google are just becoming more and more inaccurate as they feed off themselves. I can’t even imagine what it’s doing to systems we can’t see.
noai.duckduckgo my beloved, glad that’s the best free option rn (although I think Kagi is getting popular too, but that’s paid).
Glad to know that option is available, I’ve been using DDG for years and use the AI assist like once a week when I have a really specific search about a movie or scene or actor or event happening 14 years ago going off memory. After about the 3rd search I actually get useful information from the AI assist.
Most recently I searched for “movie scene with slow motion cannonballs flying around while ship explodes” because I could remember that gif but not the movie. No search results were helpful, nor images or videos but the AI assist said it was a scene from the 3rd pirates of the Caribbean.
Kagi pays yandex for image search ewww. Use a searxng instance and thank me later. Seriously give it a try
Also it’s building on top of existing fragility (the thin pillar below), and only making it worse
Everything is fine. It will become god and fix all our problems any second now, and if you say that’s mathematically impossible you’re just a hater.
i mean, we have the solutions to a lot of problems already
traffic? public trains
hunger? just like, feed people
global warming? reduce fossil fuel usage and stop poisoning the oceans
homeless? literally so many empty homes, put people in them???
and we’ve had many smart people create step by step plans for all of these!
the thing is… i guess rich people want a solution that doesn’t involve them paying for something that’s good not just for them but for others? so all those plans fail at step 1 - have empathy
I mean, nitpick, but if you blamed mathematics you actually would be. The observation that AI/LLMs are highly unreliable and don’t appear to be getting any better is purely empirical, since we don’t actually know how they work.
We ha e known since the 50s. The math was done.
Hmm. I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Do you have a link?
No but Turing was involved, and the guy who wrote ELIZA
The tech isn’t new. That’s all the effort I’m willing to put in for this trash.
And that paper’s name? Albert Einstein. I can’t find anything on Weizenbaum and Turing authoring together. Weizenbaum seems to have written mostly prose and code, even - he’s not really thought of for his mathematical innovations, although obviously math was his original field.
Back in the 50’s people thought conventional algorithms, like everybody here knows, were going to reach human intellegence. They could play chess, and chess is smart guy stuff, so obviously recognising a bird should be easy, right? Well, they figured out that wasn’t right, and so began the first AI winter.
The tech of deep neural nets is in fact fairly new. Like, arguably it didn’t become a thing until the Cold War was ending, although there were a lot of precursors, and it kind of arrived gradually.
‘Deep neural nets’ that’s not a thing, dude. If it was, it was out on ice for this trash.
“We will create God then ask him for money.”
TIL Catholics invented AI
“It doesn’t matter that we are burning 1 trillion dollars with no pat to revenue, because we will create God and it will make money meaningless.”
"Also, it will cure cancer and solve Global Warming. I know dumb people like you that can’t even get a trillion dollars to burn care about those things.
Exactly!
Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.
DNS?
MS can’t force that one to use AI on development. But they can force almost everybody up.
could it be the foss and publicly fund research and training I wonder
Speaking of being needlessly destructive with stupid bots, these duplicates of other user’s posts don’t even register as cross-posts anymore (due to image proxying).
Lol what bots? This is all manual hence why some posts get through with the dumb proxy URL that I typically manually edit
They are putting it into washing machines these days.
“Oh good catch! How astute of you! Of course I should have added detergent before running the cycle!”
“…but I ignored your specific instructions and instead ran the washing machine for 15 hours. That was very wasteful of me, and you’re right that was not what I was instructed to do, but I did it anyways.”
User: Add enough detergent for this weight of clothes.
Washing machine AI: OK, I have added the correct amount for you, ready to start the wash.
User: You only added fabric softener, I need you to add detergent. Please weigh the clothes and add the detergent based on that weight.
Washing machine AI: Ah, I see what you mean. I have now weighed the clothes and added the needed amount of detergent.
User: you just added more fabric softener. Do not add any more of that, I only need detergent. Please, add detergent.
Washing machine AI: I’m sorry, I misunderstood you before. I have now made sure to add detergent.
User: you added more fabric softener…
See, the solution is just to not use softener. Haven’t used it in a decade, haven’t missed it either.
Though the AI might come up with a different fuckup.
Sorry, I cannot add any detergent because my detergent sensor is telling me the tray is empty.
There we go. Thanks for being more creative than me.
More like doing a big sloppy crap of AI on top of everything.
Not just MS though, right?
MS is especially egregious about it.
They’re planning the next iteration of Windows to be primarily AI-driven - as in, the AI runs things for you.
AI ruins things for you
FTFY
well Microsoft saaaaaays that, but they also said in the same video that they’d achieve “Computing in the realm of Quantum” so I predict multiple shitty interface updates and a few new pop-ups.
Most developers in general.
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More like C Level people that force devs to make this crap
As a developer this has not been my experience, we all hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
My former boss fucking loved it though, but he was a PM not a dev.
There are job applications that not only actively encourage it as part of the job description but ask that you be enthusiastic about it
