• Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Yeah this is where I’m at. Actual movie level AI would be neat, but what we have right now is closer to a McDonald’s toy pretending to be AI than the real deal.

    I’d be overjoyed if we had decently functional AI that could be trusted to do the kind of jobs humans don’t want to do, but instead we have hyped up autocomplete that’s too stupid to reliably trust to run anything (see the shitshow of openclaw when they do).

    There are places where machine learning has and will continue to push real progress but this whole “AI is on the road to AGI and then we’ll never work again” bullshit is so destructive.

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      2 months ago

      What we have now is “neat.” It’s freaking amazing it can do what it does. However it is not the AI from science fiction.

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      2 months ago

      what we have right now is closer to a McDonald’s toy pretending to be AI than the real deal.

      This is so we’ll said.

      I’m stealing this.

      I’m going to use it to explain while I simultaneously have so much derision for modern AI, while I also enjoy it.

      I like McDonald’s toys. I just don’t use them for big person work.