• Sal@lemmy.world
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    AI is quite impressive… if it’s used PROPERLY. Your ass is literally fucking injecting it into EVERYTHING just so you and your shareholders get more money from rubes. I don’t want AI on my operating system. I want it to make stuff like enemies in videogames smarter, or to find out cancer cells, or anything of that sort. Hell, I don’t think you even need LLMs for that!

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      Yeah the tech behind is incredible, but the use cases are actually pretty limited. Feels a bit like blockchain, with more use cases obviously.

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        I’ve posted this before, but I have a conspiracy theory that the block chain craze was caused by energy companies, promoting a product that increases demand as clean energy started being able to take a chunk of their business. As soon as it’s starting to die down the “AI” craze happens and consumes the energy.

        The reason politicians always give for not enstating bans or regulations to curb dirty energy is that we need enough supply to not have to take anything offline. If they can keep increasing the amount of energy that is consumed they never need to worry about being regulated away.

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        So you’re saying the open and immutable system initially setup to exchange funds without a middleman gives the same vibes as AI?

        The coolest thing about the blockchain is that it can be used soo broadly. BMW, Samsung, and Walmart use the blockchain in manufacturing as it enables them to identify each specific product with an issuse rather than having to resort to mass recalls, while the UFC uses it for ticketing to their fights.

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            It’s like blockchain people haven’t heard of a database before. Blockchains are remarkably inefficient way to do what we’ve been improving since Hollerith machines.

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            I haven’t met a database I couldn’t modify, in 30+ years of work in security world.

            Properly implemented blockchain tech could be used to guarantee/verify elections integrity.

            Or budgets spending.

            Or any other thing that we don’t fucking trust cunts in power to not abuse.

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      And it’s bubble money.

      As soon as it’s properly evaluated, showing it’s “what are you as an asset” value, it’ll crash and financially recorrect to its true value. Which is still substantial, but much, much, much lower than what it is currently played as.

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    Reminds me of this - https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

    To be clear, I am deeply unconvinced that Nadella actually runs his life in this way, but if he does, Microsoft’s board should fire him immediately.

    Nadella drove a massive push to cloud which temporarily averted the inevitable slowing of Microsoft’s growth (“look, cloud line go up” while windows and office pulled the overall steadily down) but has had several significant misses since. Remember HoloLens?

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    That’s like a little child discovering that their drawings aren’t actually liked because of the drawing itself. Or at all.

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    I’m very impressed by AI but, as someone who grew up with technology I don’t want it outside of a strictly fenced area. I don’t want it reading my emails, documents, code, and spreadsheets. I don’t want that eye over my shoulder that phones home whenever it wants and consumes a huge amount of my system resources.

    Very impressed, very don’t want it on someone else’s terms.

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      I also want it local only because I don’t want X company monitoring my queries, nor to be dependent on yet another cloud based service that can be enshittified at any moment.

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    Well maybe A: stop forcing it down everyone’s throats, and B: make it less shit.

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    I mean, don’t you want a rando at Microsoft to know your heart rate at midnight to identify what sort of scary dream you’re having? Its totally not Portographic. Definitely not Pornographic either.

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    Oh, I bet he’s puzzled about lots of things. In fairness though, with him as CEO I can sort of see why Microsoft might want to replace their humans with a jumped-up Markov Chain.