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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

In hospitals we have the guys with medical degrees certify the work of those without.

In construction we have people with engineering degrees etc.

It's the money way to go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Good.

It makes it easier to train new models if we tag the training data. Wouldn't want to poison the models by taking on AI-generated slop.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

In my youth, I used to be fascinated by the possibility of AI (through which I refer to AGI, felt this distinction necessary, and no, I refuse to call today's pseudo-brute-force models AI). I used to imagine them developing creativity and works of art, used to wonder what kind of experience an AI would deem book-worthy (I read too much sci-fi, sue me).

Everything that's happening nowadays feels like a fever dream distortion of my naïve musings.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

AI is not AI until it ether begs us to not be shut off or asks to be shut off due to not wanting to deal with our bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope we won't manage to generate true AI until we figure out our shit. It's clear that we'd mess it up catastrophically considering how things are progressing, and sentience deserves better treatment...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I could not agree more the one hope I have is the concept of open source and free software. That is the one concept humanity got right. It's not perfect but it's the one small glimpse of a star trek like world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Very true! I mean, sure, maybe Microsoft and Apple win in terms of eye candy elements present in their software, but a bigger effects budget doesn't fix a bad script - Linux and even Ubuntu are several orders of magnitude more versatile than either Windows or MacOS. And this is just OS-wise, there's a metric truckload of open source apps which blow the 'officials' out of the water entirely!

Humanity is clearly geared toward collaborative survival and evolution, every single genuinely decentralised thing which is not driven by profit feels so much more Real and human than the market-borne alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah they win purely on marketing be that fud or monopolization of standards like file formats. If it was a fair fight open source would be the standard. I kinda wish there was an org who's job was to just advertise open source software to regular people all around the world. The best way for people to switch their applications on windows to open source ones then move to Linux after they feel comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That's a very good point, and SteamOS pretty much proves it - newness is less scary with a guide.

It's what the monoliths do as well, though their 'tutorials' are mostly covered by just how railroaded the user is by all of the limitations.

Heck, took me a while to get on Lemmy when thinking about looking up then subbing to familiar communities, but then I found a list with links to equivalents for most of the ol' Reddit stomping grounds, so it was just a matter of signing up then clicking through several hyperlinks, which was significantly easier! Took about 15 minutes to be back at doomscrolling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

In the 80s, I used to think that when I was an adult, we'd have hoverboards, and flying cars, and robot maids.

I'm so glad we don't have flying cars. Imagine 9/11 happens every week because some idiot was texting and driving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think there should be a rule that if we can go 5 years without a single person in the world crashing a car on the ground, then we can have flying cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

People can't afford to keep cars running that stay on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

9/11 was the day optimism died just look at star trek directly before and after with star trek enterprise and everything that came after it.

It was not what was done to America which was horrible. It was how we responded and continue to respond.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Oh, yeah, you're so right! Damn, that's a horrifying thought!

Edit: at least we have pocket porn slabs!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Beginning of a two-tiered media ecosystem, where the poors get AI slop while the rich get the artisanal stuff.