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oh boy this one is gonna be controversial. first off to be transparent I am a huge nerd and train models for a living. that being said, I was a huge ai hater for a long time and never used it in anything I did. Then, I started using it a bit for coding, then for research (tool use ftw), then for a whole bunch of simple tasks I wanted to automate but couldn’t w pure code (either due to needing unpredictable input or needing buttons pushed). Is it super useful, not yet. Should we replace people with it, obviously not. But like dude. You can TALK to your computer in ENGLISH (or french, arabic, japanese, etc.) and it will understand you and respond. I think the like crazy shift in human - computer interaction here is kinda slept on ngl, I fw this heavy now.

@joos

Feb 24, 2025

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@soft

In my life I have absolutely no use for it but I imagine it would be so exciting if I did so I understand you! Also I feel like this is ultimately what we’ve always dreamed of computers being and now it’s here everyone’s being such a baby about it. Like ok don’t use it but don’t pretend it isn’t sick as hell that we have the option lol

Feb 25, 2025

@joos

soft yes this exactly! like a keyboard an mouse and a badly designed app is not the way the internet should be experienced, I want to talk to it and for it to understand what I mean even when I don’t

Feb 25, 2025

@winton

i think there are two discussions, the usefulness of ai and the Philosophical Debate of are we letting the computers get away with too much (your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should, etc) that being said! it is very useful for coding, instead of having to read a buncha stack overflow mumbo jumbo it's like there is a little person in your computer who speaks normally and can teach u to code but idk if the usefulness of it outweights the "well if we're just gonna automate everything and let the computers live our lives why are we even here on god's green earth" What A Time To Be Alive

Feb 24, 2025

@soft

winton You can still swim in rivers, make love, eat cherry pies, have dreams and visions. The computers aren’t taking away anything you actually enjoy doing it’s ok.

Feb 25, 2025

@joos

Ok to clarify a bit, I think people hate the corporateness of AI, not AI itself. There is a lot of cool things you can do with AI and I think it also sucks in a lot of places, but I do think the absolute disdain for it is a little misplaced (this is solely related to text, I don’t have opinions on image AI)

Feb 24, 2025

@worldonfire

🗣️ HELL NAH

Feb 24, 2025

@andresfranco

boo boooo tomato !!! 🍅🍅🍅 (no but actually, i don’t think any amount of talking to AI could ever come close to a meaningful conversation with a real life person, especially w/ someone you’ve just met) maybe it’s bc i’m not a computer person but i don’t see it ever serving me any purpose. what good could talking to a computer ever bring? (again, no disrespect)

Feb 24, 2025

@joos

andresfranco i mean this more in a sense of, we use computers every day to do tons of things. ai lets you do all those things through your language instead of having to know how to code/using some shitty website that doesn’t work.

Feb 24, 2025

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