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I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.

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Reminds me of the story of the ice tea company that changed their name to include "Blockchain" and saw their value shoot up a few years ago

Long Blockchain Corp, formerly Long Island Iced Tea Corp

I thought you were joking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.

Why on earth did I waste my life working of clearly the path to success is based on plastering buzzwords in irrelevant places.

I'm waiting for the day we get microwaves with an AI that turns them off once the timer reaches zero.

Mine have had that for as long as they've existed.

Does it send the zero-time notification to a cloud LLM endpoint that will send back a 10 kB JSON that instructs the oven to turn off? (Or not, how could we predict it?)

Actually it already exists. My microwave have a button labeled “AI” which suppose to run the microwave until it determines the food is ready.

We have had this function for dozens of years in Japan already

The world has had it, you just have to buy it.

If it has a humidity sensor it'll likely work, but doesn't need "AI"

Any logic where you could use an if condition will be marketed (probably already is) as "AI".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0 (it's Technology Connections about a really old microwave that does this well)

Every microwave turns off when the timer reaches zero. It'd be better to have AI that turns it off when the timer reaches one so that I don't have to quickly stop it before the bell goes off. Better yet, a mute function would do the same thing.

It feels like we are going to need a lot of volunteer effort to help remove all the AI garbage out of all these projects that insist on jamming AI into themselves.

Who can afford to volunteer as fork maintainer for a monolithic browser codebase, though?

This week the GZDoom project forked into UZDoom after a maintainer force-pushed AI-generated code into the repo. Thankfully, it failed to compile and other maintainers caught it before it made it out, but the decision to fork came down pretty quickly.

The creator was allegedly a massive asshole for years and him randomly reappearing after a year, only to force push shitty code that didn't work, was the last straw. It wasn't just because it was AI code.

What "HD craze" was there from 2015-2020?

HD GIFs, most likely.

"HD" as a marketing buzzterm for products where "High Definition" technically doesn't make sense. Like adding 2.0 everywhere.

The only example of that I can remember was "HD sunglasses" but I don't recall that ever being a widespread fad. I only saw people ever joke about that.

HD as far as I ever saw it used generally referred to 720p and soon after 1080p. Which is a pretty objective, non-marketing definition. And the timeframe of 2015-2020 seems way off. 1080p was pretty standard by like 2010. YouTube started streaming 4K in 2010.

> HD as far as I ever saw it used generally referred to 720p and soon after 1080p.

I remember stuff like "HD" whitening toothpaste, HD flashlights, and HD radio

The HD craze was more like 20 years ago, you're getting old :)

Before that was the prefixing everything with a lower-case i craze.

Agereed. Sadly, we're on the wrong planet, my friend. AI will be shoved into every available orifice and more. It's a great tool for "them" to gather even more info on you to sell to anyone with a handful of nickels.

The last thing any of these masters of the universe will do is leverage AI to make everyone's life better.

Bruh, I think everyone knows that already but ChatGPT records your camera and audio and sends them to the US.

I don't think switching planets will help much, either. Mars will get AI before it gets humans.

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