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Ricki Yasha Tarr Sep 1

We really need to start pushing the truth about AI.

The easiest job for AI to replace would be Management.

Uses the most resources, while offering the least amount of actual productivity.

Reads something by some idiot on the internet, and bases their Management Style around it.

Makes decisions without context.

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tuban_muzuru Sep 1

@RickiTarr

I seem to be the only person on Mastodon who finds AI useful.

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eyrea 🇨🇦Sep 1

@tuban_muzuru @RickiTarr I find it useful, but not nearly as useful as it's hyped to be... which makes me wonder about its long-term viability. Also, whenever I try to discuss this, I get "but one day, it'll be able to do that!" as if it's inevitable.

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tuban_muzuru Sep 1

@eyrea @RickiTarr

My fucking rice maker has AI in it.

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David Mitchell

Sep 1

@tuban_muzuru @eyrea @RickiTarr

wtf? A rice maker is a wonderfully elegant, simple, reliable machine.

Operator closes circuit. Resistor creates heat. When temperature reaches 100C break circuit. Perfect rice ensues.

What possible need is there for more? What possible utility is there for “AI”? At which stage in that simple process do we benefit from inserting a probabilistic bullshit machine?

Yes, I recognize that there are a few applications that have some utility - I’m a Luddite not a tech hater - but we’re boiling off our rivers and aquifers to cool processing centres so we can stick “AI” into a *rice cooker*?

Fuck that.

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David Mitchell

Sep 1

@tuban_muzuru @eyrea @RickiTarr

OK, slight tangent, but I actually can think of one way to improve a rice cooker:

Somewhere on the bottom, behind a screwed shut panel, add an adjustment screw to change the shut-off temperature. Living at 2,200 ft (670m), the boiling point of water is more like 98C so our cooker always creates just a hint of a slightly browned skin at the bottom.

But this most emphatically does not require “AI”

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