adafruit"Apple Predicted Your AI Assistant in 1987. They Were Off by 18 Days" Looks like there are enough tools, services, and open-source versions of various apps to make this "real" we'll see what is possible soon, Mastodon dudes, if you do not like the content we publish, you don't need to read it, block, move on - for everyone else, stop back later. siri was october 2011
Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲@adafruit You realise you are talking to and insulting your customers, right?
Tom BortelsThey are talking to everyone. This is Mastodon - if you don't like a poster, don't follow, or block and move on.
Background for the confused: some folks at Adafruit have found utility in using AI for circuit board layouts. This isn't unreasonable - verifiable technical tasks evade some of the flaws in current AI output. Some other folks are offended by this. They should shop elsewhere if it's that important to them. What they shouldn't do is try to drag *anyone* for it, especially on Mastodon. On mastodon, you only see content of people you follow or that people you follow boosted. If you don't like that content - block or unfollow, please. Evangelists of any stripe will have a hard time here by design. We block early and often.
Yes, AI has some ugly baggage. But like almost everything in this world, it is not wholly evil or pure - it's just tech, and the moral value comes from how it's created and used, it isn't inherent. My personal take is that the technology is far less an issue than the reality of how it was trained and how the businesses selling it are affecting the economy, but doing that justice is a rant that also probably doesn't belong here.
If this upsets anyone, block me. Please.
Mark Struberg@tbortels @nik @adafruit I also don't get the discussion. They have been using AI to create the sym and footprint libs for EagleCAD based on the datasheet. So what? That's a perfectly fine and reasonable use case for AI. Ofc you have to verify the result before you use it, but that's exactly expected.
Indeed - the case where (1) the training material is published with the intent of sharing/teaching, and (2) the result is fairly easily tested for correctness is the one real, compelling use-case for current AI.
A hallucinated circuit should quickly be identified by the blue smoke and flame.