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midranger · Post #321 » by **midranger** » Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:17 pm

Are people really driving to the Smokies without going through Frankfort Kentucky to hit Buffalo trace on the way?

That’s half the attraction for dad.

MoreTrife · Post #322 » by **MoreTrife** » Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:23 pm

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/29/24115701/openai-voice-generation-ai-model

Maybe I'm a Luddite but **** a lot of scary tools are becoming available.

Mags FTW · Post #323 » by **Mags FTW** » Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:33 pm

MoreTrife wrote:https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/29/24115701/openai-voice-generation-ai-model

Maybe I'm a Luddite but **** a lot of scary tools are becoming available.

Nah, you're normal. Things like this are why I feel we have yet to hit the Great Filter.

TroyD92 · Post #324 » by **TroyD92** » Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:45 pm

I'm not sure what good is going to come out of AI. As someone who works at a large tech company that is all in on AI at the moment.

MoreTrife · Post #325 » by **MoreTrife** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 12:53 am

TroyD92 wrote:I'm not sure what good is going to come out of AI. As someone who works at a large tech company that is all in on AI at the moment.

Majorly has the feel of doing it to see if we can and figure out whether we should later.

MikeIsGood · Post #326 » by **MikeIsGood** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 1:07 am

I often feel irrationally doom-y about AI so I'm glad I'm not alone. Read this while watching a 60M piece about energy weapons which felt perfectly dystopian.

Post #327 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 1:13 am

I'll be honest, I just wanna use AI to make my job easier.

TroyD92 · Post #328 » by **TroyD92** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 2:18 am

Biggest issue is AI is trained on other people. If most people were perfect at their job it would probably work, but most people are not good at their jobs.

KidA24 · Post #329 » by **KidA24** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 1:53 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:I'll be honest, I just wanna use AI to make my job easier.

It'll make your job so easy you won't have one. That's the problem.

Post #330 » by **humanrefutation** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:01 pm

I went to a legal conference about six months ago where one of the speakers talked about using AI to do legal work for you.

There was a story around then of a lawyer who got caught using ChatGPT to draft his legal filings, unaware that all of the case citations were made up.

emunney · Post #331 » by **emunney** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:09 pm

MoreTrife wrote:
TroyD92 wrote:I'm not sure what good is going to come out of AI. As someone who works at a large tech company that is all in on AI at the moment.

Majorly has the feel of doing it to see if we can and figure out whether we should later.

Not sure what other way there is to create self-replicating machines that use all of our resources and colonize the stars without us oh wait

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #332 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:11 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:I often feel irrationally doom-y about AI so I'm glad I'm not alone. Read this while watching a 60M piece about energy weapons which felt perfectly dystopian.

My life is pretty good and I'm comfortable with it, but only 3 things really scare me: Chance of nuclear war, AI drastically changing our lives for the worst, and the heat in the first round.

BUCKnation · Post #333 » by **BUCKnation** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:12 pm

As someone in IT with a good amount of programming, I was in on ChatGPT pretty early. It's great to plug in a problem and have it do the coding grunt work. Obviously, I then have to go through it, make sure it's secure and tailor to what I'm doing, but it saves so much time on the upstart. People are just lazy and getting burned.

Post #334 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:25 pm

BUCKnation wrote:As someone in IT with a good amount of programming, I was in on ChatGPT pretty early. It's great to plug in a problem and have it do the coding grunt work. Obviously, I then have to go through it, make sure it's secure and tailor to what I'm doing, but it saves so much time on the upstart. People are just lazy and getting burned.

That's what I use it for. Also asking the hard questions on occasion.

Not bad, AI Overlords...not bad at all.

MoreTrife · Post #335 » by **MoreTrife** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:30 pm

When's the last time you saw an athlete's foot commercial? I feel like 10 years ago I saw them EVERY commercial break with the glowing red toes and then spraying something on. Now, never. Maybe it's been cured.

jschligs · Post #336 » by **jschligs** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 7:45 pm

I firmly believe parents should get an extra 10 days of PTO for sick kids. Pretty sure I’ve already used 6-8 for each kid already this year between Covid, flu, fevers, and other crap.

Mags FTW · Post #337 » by **Mags FTW** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 10:44 pm

emunney wrote:
MoreTrife wrote:
TroyD92 wrote:I'm not sure what good is going to come out of AI. As someone who works at a large tech company that is all in on AI at the moment.

Majorly has the feel of doing it to see if we can and figure out whether we should later.

Not sure what other way there is to create self-replicating machines that use all of our resources and colonize the stars without us oh wait

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_hypothesis

buckboy · Post #338 » by **buckboy** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 10:49 pm

midranger wrote:Are people really driving to the Smokies without going through Frankfort Kentucky to hit Buffalo trace on the way?

That’s half the attraction for dad.

My daughters are nuts for horses so we went through Lexington and stopped at Secretariat's farm. I actually enjoyed that quite a bit.

chonestown · Post #339 » by **chonestown** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 10:52 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:
BUCKnation wrote:As someone in IT with a good amount of programming, I was in on ChatGPT pretty early. It's great to plug in a problem and have it do the coding grunt work. Obviously, I then have to go through it, make sure it's secure and tailor to what I'm doing, but it saves so much time on the upstart. People are just lazy and getting burned.

That's what I use it for. Also asking the hard questions on occasion.

Not bad, AI Overlords...not bad at all.

Lot of words when I could have gotten to the crux merely by responding "De La Soul x Teenage Fanclub"

Brevity matters.imo

trwi7 · Post #340 » by **trwi7** » Mon Apr 1, 2024 10:56 pm

jschligs wrote:I firmly believe parents should get an extra 10 days of PTO for sick kids. Pretty sure I’ve already used 6-8 for each kid already this year between Covid, flu, fevers, and other crap.

Ehh, one parent needs to try to have a flexible schedule and you need a backup plan and you need a backup to the backup plan.

I had a new one today.

Twirlina: My tummy hurts.

Me: Ok, go try to poop.

Twirlina: I don't have to.

Me: Ok whatever.

Plays for a while, 30ish minutes later

Twirlina: My tummy hurts.

Me: Ok, we're going to go try this time.

*She pees, says she doesn't have to poop, fine, whatever.*

Ok now wipe and wash your hands and we can go play again.

Twirlina: I don't want to wipe.

Me: Girl, you don't like your hands being even a little bit wet after you wash them. Go wipe because if you can't stand your hands being wet, you sure as hell aren't going to enjoy your underwear being wet.

I may not be the smartest guy, but I'm sure as hell smarter than a 3 year old.