• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    I feel like the AI industry did this to themselves by absolutely shoving it down our throats at every possible chance they had.

    AI in general isn’t a bad technology, it just has very limited use cases where it’s actually good at things. Most things it’s used for are things it’s bad at. Kind of like using a steam locomotive to clean the bottom of your pool.

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        3 hours ago

        I’ve used it as a sort of find and replace in the past, but by feeding it the output from Ripgrep to skip the “find” part. The “replace” was just unwrapping unnecessarily confusing “try” blocks and allowing errors to propagate to the appropriate handlers. This would have required a syntax-aware replacement tool (and some exist but I didn’t really feel like learning one for a one-off).

        As a simple “find this text and replace with this other text” it makes no sense.

      • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 hours ago

        I can count on one hand the number of jobs or functions I’ve seen people try to get AI to do that isn’t already done better by a hard-coded program or an Excel spreadsheet.

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      8 hours ago

      Kind of like using a steam locomotive to clean the bottom of your pool.

      I’m surprised that wasn’t tried on the reflecting pool in D.C. “We love the old-timey trains, don’t we, folks? And now were going to use one in the most amazing way the world has ever seen!”

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        3 hours ago

        Powered by “clean coal” of course, right? It’d have been more effective than dumping a couple bottles of hydrogen peroxide into the pool at least since the emissions would prevent future algae growth more effectively.

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          3 hours ago

          Oh, they did dump some H202 along the edges, giving a dark blue hue surrounding the algae bloom. Apparently, a comprehensive distribution either didn’t come to mind or was nixed. Alternatively, clearing it up immediately would negate Trump’s claim that the green hue was the result of vandalism and thus, well …

    • what@beehaw.org
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      8 hours ago

      There are lists of technology which will work for AI such as programmer. which require analytics of AI and work with that frame of mind.

      We were shown the list in my school 15 years ago and told “some day soon AI will take these jobs, so choose wisely” with a rough percentage for each job.

      Okay, let AI take my job then, that would happen anyway. Jobs have been gouged ever since society has mutated apart from its basic building blocks. I at least want peace of mind!