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Are the AI apologists… AIs? 🤪

Better yet: bash. If you can read the code, then someone didn’t do their job properly!

C-suite response:

I truly hope that there is nothing irreplaceable on that machine, bc you might be about to FAAFO.

I think it makes them feel important, like they are somehow contributing something (which justifies their salary)?😁

Bonus points if the browser has loaded a webpage, preferably one showing graphs that automagically update?

That must be the part where the giantess comes in? 😜

E-p-s-t-e-i-n?

Um, actually, that looks more like a tank than a cannon?

Oh my genitals / giantess! 😳

“Why do I have to take 5 extra steps to just quickly save a file onto my computer, without needing literally everything on the cloud, especially if I am on a laptop on a device currently in airplane mode, most likely in a literal airplane in an area without reliable Internet connectivity?”

Also consider that there are places - third world nations, and so very MANY areas within supposedly “first-world” ones - that do not have reliable Internet, even today. The KISS principle still applies now, as it did back then too. Your argument screams privileged access, without acknowledging those basic precepts, including perpetual access to subscription services, which must always be maintained, e.g. even after someone retires.

And I disagree in that arguments of the form “LLMs currently do not perform better than my own human effort, in my inexperienced hands at least” will be outdated a decade from now. If LLMs get better, then they will become the musings of people who struggled with early tech before it was fully ready, which does not somehow invalidate their veracity especially in the historical sense.

People have been trying to call things “AI” for at least the last half century (with varying degrees of success). They were chomping at the bit for this before most of us here were even alive.

We are at end-stage capitalism and things other than scientific discoveries and technological engineering marvels are driving the show now. Money is made regardless of reality, and cultural shifts follow the money. Case in point: we too here are calling this “AI”.

Yes but counterpoint: give me your money.

… or else something bad might happen to you? Sadly this seems the intellectual level that the discussion is at right now, and corporate structure being authoritarian, leans towards listening to those highest up in the hierarchy, such as Donald J. Trump.

“Logic” has little to do with any of this. The elites have spoken, so get to marching, NOW.

It was the set-up to a joke. Nobody asked who’s there so they did not get to finish.:-(

Ew emacs, yuck 🤢🤮. Try Vim and you’ll never go back.

/s btw (I use Linux, please don’t kill me)

Fine, Hannah Montana it is then.

Tbf, here it is (mostly?) often a joke, whereas… 🤪😳🙃🙄😞😤

The difference is: the demon wants to be summoned.

Consent should matter, you know!

Good point and agreed! I’m a little new to posting so I thought it was polite to include the source where I found it.

It absolutely is, and welcome! 😁