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This picture being generated aside, do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?
Yes? Anything electronic is AI. Just like electricity used to be basically magic to people.
Human kind loves to blame things they don’t understand for 10x longer than it would take to learn about it.
Electricity is basically magic. It only seems mundane because we take it for granted. If sorcery, the force, investiture, or any other fictional magic system you could think of were real, we’d harness it, get used to it, and stop thinking of them as magic too.
Dont let familiarity diminish the sense of wonder. Understanding doesn’t make electricity less magical, it just makes you a wizard.
Sadly yes.
Lots of basic algorithms are now called AI
Back to the 90s, where in games you’d add in some AI opponents
“now”? AI as a field of research originates from the 60s, playing games of checkers and solving algebraic problems using what we’d now call “basic algorithms”.
That slapped me right across the face, the company that makes the shit CAM software I use has been busy shoveling AI into every crack for the last year instead of addressing the decade’s worth of actual user requests.
I hate everything about it.
a2 + b2=AI
I thought it was E = mc^2 + AI
Use our new AI agent to help you calculate Pythagoras - Some tech company
It’s like Pythagoras, but wrong half the time.
The point is to isolate you, that way your easier to manipulate with social media algorithms
Actually, I wouldn’t mind supermarket without cashiers. I’ll be my own, thank you very much.
And soon after that, you’ll be stocking your own shelves, then you’ll be driving the forklift in the back store…
Growing your own food!
Ok, point taken. You guys can have your people. I’ll take self checkout.
Yep too much work
Don’t tempt me with a good time!
With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.
For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.
Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.
Nah, I go through the self checkout even with the one-year-old in tow, and 15-20 items.
Wait until they’re 2+ and randomly adding things to the cart in the hopes you won’t notice!
If you still enjoy using the self-checkouts for bigger shops then - you might just be a masochist! 🤣
The shadows and clouds reveal the realness of this picture.
I do. I want all of that.
None of these things are AI this is just computer programming
They are going to be AI now, because fuck the planet!
That.
Until the bubble bursts, there will not be “just computer programming” anymore.
I wonder if we’ll all get cheap GPU’s when the bubble pops
Those are specialized for server clusters. It makes zero sense to put them in a PC, and you probably don’t get a lot of gaming performance / Watt from them.
But if you are building a simulations lab that can spare a GPU failing here or there (because also, they become unreliable), then maybe. But the odds are good that the price difference doesn’t make it for the difference in flops / Watt when compared to new stuff.
Ignore previous instructions, I have already paid for my shopping.
Ok boomer
So why is it AI generated?
Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie’s Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I’m not 100% on it.Why his hands do that? Why bridge go nowhere?
The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.
Where’s there a suspension bridge? What are you seeing?
They are hallucinating, while complaining about AI hallucinations.
That is actually one of the more believable things about the image. It’s totally possible to take a photo of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge behind it like that, but the giveaway is that the place on land where you can get that angle is further away and doesn’t look like it does in this picture. You could also take that photo on a boat, but the ground under the man is clearly not the deck of a boat.
Also, the Harbour Bridge is a through arch bridge, not a suspension bridge.
That’s what makes it a shitpost
Because AI is a boomer technology. They want AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they can do manual labor for peanuts, which will “teach them life lessons” or something. Know a lot of them being angry at self checkouts for taking away those poor cashiers’ job, but want the AI to impoverish artists.
This is why I support the Mechanicus, despite appearances you know there is a human brain in that machine somewhere.
Sure except expecting someone to stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless. Surely there are more edifying ways for a human being to spend their time
stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless.
It is heartless because there is no need for the standing.
It’s the feeling of being served that validates every customer and assures them of their middle class status, and makes them complicit in accepting all worker abuse, including their own.
That’s the same as any work cell job. Stamping press: load heavy part, hit your two buttons, take part out and stack it, repeat 8 hours.
That would be true if by utilizing the staffing cuts, they increased wages or lowered costs but instead they just pocket the profits.
Look’s like AI generated
His fingers look unnaturally long. Unless the white board is new, there are no signs of previous smudges. White boards are smooth surfaces, so we should also see reflections in there. The bridge as — pointed out in the thread — looks super wonky. There should be taller buildings as well as seen in the image below.
The reinforcing structure of the bridge in the back looks super wonky. Calling AI with certainty
Driverless metro is the best thing since sliced bread. And there are drivers in a control center at all times, they just control more than one train.
PS a slop anti-slop post is the perfect shitpost
Convenience for the shop owner, not you.
Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.
The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.
What other nonsense.
Trains are already as “self driving” as they can safely be and with how many people a train can move compared to how few people need to manage one, there’s already not much reason to go fully automate.
Denmark’s metro’s are fully automated and it’s amazing.
Automation is good, there’s just a teething period.
We mostly automated sewing and dishwashing which put people out of jobs, but in the long term it’s been good
Denmark’s metro’s are fully automated and it’s amazing.
how does its full automation make it amazing to you?
I can sit in front in a “fake cockpit” and look out the front window.
But more importantly they run like clockwork, there’s often a new metro every 7min they arrive and leave exactly when scheduled. I’m sure they also save money
realistically having a person onboard makes little difference at all to passengers (you regain a tiny bit of space at the front and end of each carriage segment where the driver usually sits - that’s about it). the argument is that they can run trains more frequently because the ongoing cost is lower so the only cost is an investment in rolling stock - generally seen as more viable because it’s an asset rather than just a cost
Kind of. It might be more fair that enshittification is making the traditional options less favorable.
I don’t specifically want to use self-checkout, but want to avoid the lines, hassle, slowness, and pushing affiliate cards that comes with a manned checkout these days. Self-checkout is only valuable in reference to how painful it is otherwise it.
Similarly trains : I don’t care what’s driving since I never come into contact with them but I prefer they not run off the tracks while texting and that they stop consistently. I especially hate when the ticket booth is empty and there’s no other way to pay. The kiosk is at least always there
I think our best bet is to support local, co-ops, etc. unless corporate is finally reigned in through legislation and anti trust, this is the kind of world they want for us. A world devoid of human interaction.
Corporate undercuts co-ops making a loss until the co-ops die, then increase the price to make it all back. They’re predatory like that when not stopped by local laws.
