• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The AI bubble depends on this kind of brainwashing to stay inflated. But they can’t escape the truth, that AI is an answer looking for a question that isn’t necessarily being asked. Sure there are useful applications, but I don’t actually need it for anything I do.

    It seems to be a big deal to people who don’t know how to do a lot of stuff. I already know how to do a lot of things, and I know how to find info by reading when I need to learn something, so the most popular use cases for AI don’t apply to me and I just don’t use it.

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      2 months ago

      Sure there are useful applications, but I don’t actually need it for anything I do.

      I’ve seen applications that are very useful. YouTuber Berm Peak used ai to bypass the controller of the world’s worst ebike so it wouldn’t become e-waste and fix it’s worst flaws. Yes new firmware could have been written from scratch. But he fixes bikes. He’s not a software developer.

      It’s like you don’t need a ball point pen to write, you could use a quill and save the plastic waste. But quills are so slow you don’t even consider it.

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        2 months ago

        A dude DYI’ing his bike isn’t something to even take into account…

        Like saying screwdrivers are useful because I used one once to hammer in a nail because I didn’t have a hammer and I had no idea what I was doing… Doesn’t mean the screwdriver was useful in that instance, it just means I was too incompetent to use the right tool and knowledge for the job.

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          A dude DYI’ing his bike isn’t something to even take into account…

          I’m old enough to remember Hypercard. It was a revolution for regular people to create the one off app they needed to fix their own problems.

          Hypercard was a nightmare for professional development. But it didn’t matter. It was a tool for regular people.