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Cake day: November 14th, 2023
  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Dress code misunderstanding
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    2 days ago

    Nobody gives a damn about me.

    This is just not true. I do, so I am proof of that.

    I don’t deserve to live.

    This is also incorrect, unless you’ve done something incredibly, incredibly horrendous, like murdering an entire orphanage or some shit.

    But you should definitely find help for these feelings that you have. Wanting to live is a great feeling, and I want that for you. It’s worth having for the sake of having it. Please tell me you’ll at least try to receive some help if you haven’t already. ❤️

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•We hate AI because it's everything we hateEnglish
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    3 days ago

    When you imply that I am a fear mongerer, and grouchy, that honestly turns me off of this conversation. I’m not interested in these passive-aggressive ad hominems. I don’t know if you realize your rudeness, but sir, please.

    Your wording also implies that you generalize me as/among “anti-AI ‘people’”. I’m not anti-AI. You lean heavily on the “old geezer against tech” argument, but that’s not what’s going on here and you won’t hear otherwise. I’m not even 40, bro.

    You’ve been borderline civil here, so you know.

    I know you’ve heard some of my arguments and I thank you for acknowledging those. I’ve heard yours as well, I hope you take my word for it. But this is where I’m done. I wish you luck in using AI, and have a good day. Peace.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•We hate AI because it's everything we hateEnglish
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    3 days ago

    We agree that AI has its uses and can be the correct tool for (many!) jobs.

    You don’t see potential dangers in trusting a machine with acceleration and breaking? Tesla is screaming that you should.

    I think there definitely are dangers, in the wrong hands. For my own personal experience, I use this technology, but I don’t trust it. That’s why I’m always vigilant, and I never fully let myself not pay attention to the road. Always keep my hands on the wheel and pedals if need be. The danger lies in people trusting these immature technologies (too much or at all).

    I don’t know what Tesla says, I don’t pay attention to them because I don’t drive Tesla.

    Anyway, one technology is touted as intelligent, and gives you answers. The other is marketed as a tool that can increase security, but with a huge disclaimer that the driver is always responsible for keeping an eye on the road and managing the breaks when necessary. (This is Volvo btw.)

    It is luddite though.

    Alright, call it whatever you want to call it. I don’t know if labelling makes any difference to our argumentation here. Both of our points still stand. All I was trying to say is that I’m not opposed AI for being afraid of the unknown or something, but because I know how it works and that’s what makes me hesitant to use it. AI makes mistakes, and teaches people bullshit with confidence. As well as all those other things you ignored.

    But if we find a way to take out the human part of its inputs, then AI can be a really strong tool. Then I might consider using it for more things. But I still like to stay analog for some things, because living a more analog life I think is better and healthier for people in general.

    If we rely on computers to make even basic day-to-day decisions for us, we are headed down a path that seems unhealthy. Like I said, it wouldn’t be conducive to independent thought.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•We hate AI because it's everything we hateEnglish
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    3 days ago

    My use of a calculator is not making me dumber, just faster. I can do the calculations, just not as fast. And I have to know what needs to be calculated in order to get the correct results. AI is more like “give me a budget that works for me”. I fear AI will allow us to bypass having to learn anything and prevent us from thinking at all. The leap is too great.

    It could/should definitely be used as a tool, but IMO not used to create whole solutions.

    Scaffolding = fine, I guess, but I think it can be a slippery slope if abused.

    I have an example of actual people using AI to generate a vacation itinerary for them, and they just printed it and followed it on their vacation. Could potentially be dangerous, first of all. And it’s literally following the will of a computer and experiencing its version of your vacation instead of doing a little bit of research into what you want to do and see and experience.

    I don’t know. I just have a bad gut feeling about it.

    It’s not Luddite either, I am usually one to adopt tech very quickly and be optimistic about new shit. I for example trust my car to keep pace after other cars and automatically break when the car in front slows down. This is new tech for me as of this year. But what I’m seeing right now with AI induces strong skepticism for me. I have actual people I know that have lost whole projects due to vibe coding.

    And the numerous examples of AI being blatantly yet confidently incorrect, racist, suicide coercion, all kinds of shit. Having its input be based on human output just doesn’t feel good. That’s not a good feedback loop. It’s not conducive to independent thought, at its very core.