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It’s not April 1st. What’s going on here?

Should notepad complete your sentences too?

Maybe file explorer should just make new files for you!

Speaking of April 1st jokes... we're getting closer and closer to actually having CADIE[0], Google's 2009 April Fools joke.

Several things that CADIE was advertised to do are actually possible (if perhaps undesirable) now:

* Having an AI automatically synthesise responses to email on its own is possible, though a really bad idea for what are hopefully obvious reasons.

* A feature to automatically add red-eye could absolutely be built now. Face detection + automatic inpainting + img2img (to keep the look of the original eyes) would do the trick. Obviously not a useful feature, but it doesn't seem impossible.

As I recall, there were other things too, but these are the obvious matches.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/april-fools-...

You have to strike while the iron is hot! Even iTerm just released an update that adds an “AI concierge” to your terminal…

And no, it’s still not April 1st!

Chrome now offers to fill out all my forms I guess. And Facebook now offers to write all my comments for me.

The Internet doesn't need you any longer.

It sounds like a bit, but it's true. Outlook offers to write my e-mails. LinkedIn suggests how I should comment on posts I see. I assume this is all being done to give the impression of feature growth to investors, but the reality is that Dead Internet Theory is becoming more real every day.

Soon AI will post questions and then answer them itself on StackOverflow/StackExchange.

They'll then be automatically closed by an AI moderator as being "Created by AI". Or "Opinion based"

I approve.

As long as they are different models that learn from each other, it’s fine ?

Jira now makes your requirements for you. They all seem perfectly logical and not connected to anything your actual customers need.

So no difference to the real thing? ;)

I hope it can figure out story points for me, as I never understand what they mean and what value to put there.

I think AI will be better at story point estimation than me.

Well Edge browser does complete your sentences.

Sssh! Don't give them ideas...

> What’s going on here?

AI hype overload. Same shit with iterm2, solutions looking for problems

It’s helpful for people who are new to using things on the terminal. I use a similar version with the ctrl+l hotkey, you can do most things on the terminal just by typing english now.

That+fish is an amazing introduction to the shell. Totally new avenue for learning and being immersed quickly.

Totally new avenue to run unknown commands from unknown sources indeed, potentially as root, what could go wrong

AI is a solution in a desperate search of problems at this point. This, and all these companies employing full-time engineers while having had finished products for decades.

Honestly, I've gotten so used to copilot's autocomplete in vscode that I kind of wish it did. (As one commentor pointed out, it does do that in Edge, though it gets annoying and just deletes intentional newlines sometimes)

Installer should install programs without your input, and Settings should change your settings! Oh wait

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