AppleTea

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI being hyped right now is not AI at all. It’s really important that we all acknowledge this, that the world is selling itself a multi-billion-dollar lemon: predictive text engines that have nothing intelligent about them. They’re giant sorting machines, which is why they’re so good at identifying patterns in scientific research, and could genuinely advance medicine in wonderful ways. But what they cannot do is think, and as such, it’s a collective mass-delusion that these systems have any use in our day-to-day lives beyond plagiarism.

  Goddamn, a gaming outlet saying what the serious grown-up press should have been saying from the start!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta had its biggest lobbying quarter ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, benefit of the doubt, you get a free meal and an idea of what not to do just based on what they want you to do.

  But yeah, should be not allowed. Just talk listen and ask your damn constituents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  dumb luck, mostly

  you either work for a living or you own money for a living. You can get more nuanced, but that’s about the long and short of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half”

  becomes much more funny when you’re dealing with numbers like ∞