"The more useful something is, the more complexity people will endure to use it. GPT-4o is a reaction to the inverse. The less useful something is, the less complexity people will endure to use it." https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/112455302690682167
"After launching a feature that adds more AI junk than ever to search results, Google is experimenting with a radical new feature that lets users see only the results they were looking for, in the form of normal text links."
(Original title: Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under 'More' Tab Shows Links to Web Pages)
"By attaching the new product to a popular speculation, especially one with built-in dramatic tension, the founders can elevate a buggy, unproven, or partially conceived technology into the cultural firmament, even if only briefly. It’s a cheat code, a way of getting us to relate to a future that’s already been culturally prototyped, and it can be quite successful."
(Original title: For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point)
"Given these constraints, it seems just as likely to me that generative A.I. could end up like the Roomba, the mediocre vacuum robot that does a passable job when you are home alone but not if you are expecting guests."
Juli Zeh, mittelmäßige Autorin und ehrenamtliche Verfassungsrichterin in Brandenburg, findet das mit den Attacken auf Politiker*innen nicht so schlimm. Ist halt Frustabbau.
I am looking for some visual programming environment that allows not only small processing nodes (like NodeRED) but that also includes objects with state. Think NodeRED but with a another dimension that contains objects that the flows interact with.
@ben I am playing around with that currently just hoped that there would be a more out of the box solution to the way I want to misuse NodeRED as a simulator of sorts ;)
"I am mad that vital human institutions and practices are being threatened, contorted, disrupted, killed off, that hundreds or thousands of people doing this kind of work are unemployed, are fighting for their right to earn a living, because a handful of tech companies have seen fit to profit at their expense, no matter the human cost."
(Original title: For artists, writers, humans, big tech's mission has been clarified: "Crush!")
@tante But you do not say "AI", who many believe is the end-all of future technologies. I personally disagree with this belief. AI is just another fad. Do you support AI?
@Teop_Versant I just shared a link to an article by @brianmerchant but one of Germany's most influential papers called me Germany's most precise AI critic so no I am not an AI guy.
You can spin the whole "people leave if you ask them to go back to office" thing as "stupid companies" but given how they are currently all trying to juice their stock value with layoffs doing that work for them doesn't sound like them being dumb, it saves on severance and shit.
Dating apps creators selling a "your AI assistant will talk to someone else('s AI assistant)" sounds like someone really not understanding what the app one builds is for. Especially given how crappy AI assistants are...
Like I never really dated but I don't think that getting a half-assed summary of a chat with a person really helps one to determine if someone's a match.