Lee DunaFeb 26

Dear Samsung, I Don't Need AI to Handle Every Task for Me

https://lemmy.nz/post/34799401

Dear Samsung, I Don't Need AI to Handle Every Task for Me - Lemmy NZ

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Show threaddarkmarx

I don’t understand why they keep adding AI crap to everything. There can’t be a huge market of people who want it. It’s incredibly expensive to develop and run. Just from an economics point of view it doesn’t add up.

Is it just the corporate equivalent of FOMO? Wouldn’t it make more economic sense for them to release a base device that is capable of having AI apps/agents installed if and when the consumer wants it, rather than defaulting to it? Or are they so tightly bound in their own bubble that they don’t see the problem?

It’s like basic economic theory, has been thrown out the window; along with common sense.

Feb 26 at 6:59pmWeb
Show threadstarblursdFeb 26
I understand exactly why they keep adding it. They have put all of their eggs in the AI basket. Have seen that it is not profitable and the only way they can hope to make it look profitable and keep the bubble afloat is by forcing it on users to inflate usage metrics
Show thread4amFeb 26
Brother, it’s way more insidious than “we got egg on our face”
Show thread4amFeb 26
  • AI is sold to enterprise as a way to replace human labor with accurate robots. Middle management spooges all over every conference room. No more wages, no more dental plans, no more HR. They go all in, and a bubble is formed.
  • the bubble hype builds momentum, snowballing this effect. Investors are frothing for a piece. Money starts flowing in, the next big gold rush is here.
  • investment allows huge data centers to be built. Regulations are skirted, money is throws around like crazy.
  • computing commodities are captured. The world’s supply of RAM, SSDs, GPUs, and hard drives are gobbled up. Consumer prices shoot through the roof, brands that have sold to consumers and enterprises alive for 30 years pack it up instantly. all anyone can afford are little dumb tablets with no ram that are basically only good for being displays for cloud apps <— you are here
  • All communication starts to be done on cloud apps, all document saves to cloud drives, and all content created by humanity scanned for pattern-matched by AI. I’m not talking about out the mechanical Turk LLMs they trotted out to fool all the middle managers, I’m talking about purpose built models looking for context and meaning in written words (like a specialized LLM to detect biases), patterns in financial documents, engineering designs for things that haven’t been announced yet.
  • we now rent this privilege from the corporations and if they dislike what we are doing they cut us off, essentially making us digitally homeless.

    • You best start believing in techno-fascist dystopias; you’re in one