It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
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It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies’ generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that […]

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Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Lemmy is propaganda against AI at this point. Not sure what paid for it but it has all the markers. Feels like being in the comment section of ny post articles.

    Same energy as talking online about immigrants, nuclear energy or marvel

    It’s using a community to post toxic and dystopian articles over and over again. Lemmy technology communitys are extremely vile. Not sure why it happened but it’s turned toxic

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 days ago

      There isn’t propaganda against AI, it’s totally grassroots because companies are overselling it.

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        No it isn’t. There is 100% propaganda and media targeting communities to spread it.

        The Gap between peoples opinion towards AI in everyday life vs people on Lemmy is massive and a good indicator that Lemmy is astroturfed to be toxic towards it. People who are influenced cannot see it, outsiders can though. It’s like seeing right wingers talk about immigrants. They’ll never be able to see how their news and media influence them. That is their truth and it’s as true to them as hate towards AI is towards lemmings in places like c/technology

        Look at the articles posted, the headlines, the appeals used, the comments. It has all the markers of an Astro turf campaign.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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          4 days ago

          The Gap between peoples opinion towards AI in everyday life vs people on Lemmy is massive and a good indicator that Lemmy is astroturfed

          By who? Your conspiracy theory makes no sense. Why would anyone want to do that.

          • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 days ago

            You really can’t imagine why corporations and political groups who spend billions paying people to manufacture narratives and flood feeds might hate the idea of ordinary people suddenly having their own free, on-demand content factory, fact-checker, and megaphone?

            That’s on both sides of the political spectrum. These AI tools are not just Google chat. You can build with them rapidly. Is it some revolutionary thing? No

            But can it be a game changer in some areas? Absolutely.

            They moved rapidly with the media on this. Compare headlines for AI to any other yellow journalistic topic. They’re identical