Dean Burnett (that brains guy)

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

Jan 23, 2025 at 8:03amWeb
Show threadDean Burnett (that brains guy)Sep 17, 2025

Sci-fi has long insisted that the arrival of AI would be a singular moment in human civilisation, one so significant it would immediately change everything forever, for better or worse

Instead it's been a steady, inexorable increase in having to say "Will you just FU*K OFF!" multiple times daily

Show threadアイアンハンドガンダムSep 17, 2025
@Garwboy They try to sell LLMs as AI. So sci-fi is probably still right, we just need to call it General AI or GAI because marketing ruined the term AI.
Show threadSeán FenianSep 17, 2025
@Garwboy Well remember that that's in part because we don't have AI. What we have is predictive type-ahead turned up to 13, glorified markov chains that we're told are intelligence. Hype, hype, hype, all the way down.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeSep 17, 2025
@Garwboy well perhaps that's because it hasn't arrived at all; we're just being told it has.
Show threadSimon BrookeSep 17, 2025
@Garwboy We aren't anywhere near the arrival of #AI. My best guess is we're still at least fifty years away from it.
Show threadJust Tom... 🐁Sep 17, 2025
@simon_brooke @Garwboy - a bit like commercial generation with nuclear fusion reactors then?
Show threadSimon BrookeSep 18, 2025

@tompearce49 @Garwboy No, I think #AI probably will eventually happen.

Commercially viable #NuclearEnergy reactors? No chance.

Show threadstaringatcloudsSep 17, 2025

@Garwboy I would suggest the reason for this increase is that what they're selling & telling us is AI, isn't

And they, the creators & owners of this "not AI", are desperate to make enough money from it before we realise, that they become unprosecutable like all the other billionaires

Show threadCaptain Jack SparrowSep 18, 2025

@Garwboy

Vivaldi Browser refuses to use #AI

Just saying...

Show threadLRJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy it's an added value proposition gone horribly wrong
Show threadRT WhitingJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy it is just the way "they" want it, whoever "they" are...
Show threadSteve D. BallantyneJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy The interesting thing about the AI boom is that we learned in the first week where and how it can be actually useful. And now we are trying 'everything else' for the sake of selling a brand or a product that nobody needs.
Show threadloStronzoRoccoJan 23, 2025
@SteveBallantyne @Garwboy At this point the forced feeding of AI in every industry that honestly _doesn't need it_ is ridiculous. It's like that adage throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what will stick.
Show threadCONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGHJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy Actually, you've been using AI all those years. Programs are just *full* of if-then-else statements.
Show threadAndreas GroisJan 23, 2025
@loadhigh @Garwboy That's the game developer's definition of AI... That's the AI that works. However, nowadays it isn't real AI, unless it doesn't work.
Show threadTravisJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy I wish “AI” had a higher barrier to entry like blockchain. Remember when companies were trying to shove blockchain into everything?
Show threadgreypilgrimJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy I feel this.
Show threadಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)Jan 23, 2025
@Garwboy Most FLOSS is shunning this trend, thankfully. Switch to FLOSS whenever you can :)
Show thread(roll m3tti)Jan 23, 2025
@Garwboy only usefull thing that this whole "revolution" gave me is to expand my bulletpoints i used to put into documentation into useless bullshit wall of text. And every business manager tells me how nice the docs are -.-.
Show threadXauri'EL ZwaanJan 24, 2025
@m3tti the primary use case of AI is impressing gullible fools
Show thread(roll m3tti)Jan 24, 2025
@XauriEL so true ... so true. And now every tool and phone and device has this crap technology -.-. Its only usefull for more survilance and content generation for these exect technologies. 100% they are taking your texts and train the models with it
Show threadHdunaganJul 17, 2025
@XauriEL @m3tti The secondary use case of AI is destroying natural resources to power AI.
Show threadDoughPayMeJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy I META see this as X.
Show threadLeefeller GuyJan 23, 2025
@Garwboy META is so obvious.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jan 23, 2025

@Garwboy We didn't ask for it, yet it's being shoved into our faces. How very 'rapey' of these Tech Bros....😡

'Consent' isn't a word in their dictionary.

#TechBros #SiliconValley

Show threadJWM (Joe No Se)Jan 23, 2025
@Garwboy In related news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKuIH-fNFCY
Companies adding AI to their products 🤣#ai #aitips #aitools #artificiaintelligence #machinelearning

YouTube
Show threadStrfnurfnJan 23, 2025

@Garwboy Teammate was showing off Chrome's AI dev tool just now. "You can even ask it how to make an element more accessible!" We watched it churn for 30 seconds or so before it announced that the item had a very good contrast ratio of 21:1.

You only need to click the font color in the non-AI side to see it's actually 8.45

Glad we're setting fire to the planet for this /s

Show threadXauri'EL ZwaanJan 24, 2025
@Garwboy Just today google offered to get gemini to "help" me with a work email. I am a published author of science fiction, I think I can write an email asking head office to order us garbage bags without assistance, please and thanks
Show threadHdunaganJul 17, 2025
@XauriEL @Garwboy Maybe you need that paperclip character to help you write a resume.
Show threadHdunaganJul 17, 2025
@Garwboy This image is perfect.
Show threadCowboy Who?Jul 17, 2025
@Garwboy