guy 1: did you remember my birthday?
guy 2: whispers hey siri what’s this guys birthday
siri: it’s october 27th
guy 2: your birthday is october 27th
guy 1: wow you remembered!
*I AM a geeenius*
guy 1: did you remember my birthday?
guy 2: whispers hey siri what’s this guys birthday
siri: it’s october 27th
guy 2: your birthday is october 27th
guy 1: wow you remembered!
*I AM a geeenius*
They always seem to have bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch. One would have thought that'd be a step in the process but apparently not.
It can summarise your text messages!
Oh, yes, because that's an insurmountable amount of text to read, please hold my hand through this difficult time.
AI is getting billions in investment. Every single company out there is pushing employees to use it. Most brands have OKRs of shoving AI into their services.
And yet a chat box, removing objects in pictures or generating mediocre images is all they ever achieve.
Nobody goes beyond that. It's always the same as ChatGPT but with a modified system prompt. It's always image generation. Oh look we spent half of the quarter's budget but now our website displays an AI generated summary on top of the already easy to read information!
Which to me is irrefutable proof that AI is a useless money sink. Every company out there battling to grab your attention with AI, billions of dollars, market pressure and it's still useless?
Hey AI, I bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch, what do I do
AI: Sandwich
Wow
I recently saw an AI summary appear on a YouTube video. "This is a video about a man sitting in a room talking about technical stuff." Yeah, no shit, I knew that by seeing the thumbnail. A small list of the point he was making was too much for an AI. Useless toys.
My favorite is this combo of AI "benefits":
It's gonna be a milti trillion dollar industry.
Okay but what for.
Multi... Trillion... Just think about it.
But what does it do?
You wouldn't get it
The one where he's making gochujang pasta sauce and puts too much sugar in, and Gemini is like "let's turn it into cookies!"
OK but what is he going to have on his pasta? It solved the problem of wasting the ingredients but not, like, the main problem.
Woah there, you're talking like a guy who has never had pasta a la cookies
Wait... gochujang is Korean spicy red pepper paste. Gemini suggested turning it into cookies?
Sounds to me like it created more problems than it solved.
Apparently gochujang caramel cookies are a thing! I googled when I wrote my first comment because it did sound like it might have been a fever dream. 😄
The first public demo of Siri back when the iPhone 4S launched is more impressive than most AI commercials.
I still don't even get the stupid voice assist. All i ever did and still do is: set an alarm for 10 min. When i'm cooking. Just because it's slightly faster then doing it manually.
you may laugh but that is the end goal. we're already seeing this in people who are overreliant on AI: you get used to off-loading your brain activity so much that you need to consult AI for the most basic shit. like remembering to eat, or calculating 4+10.
@grok is this real?
@Grok: I don't know but here's a white supremacist conspiracy theory stated as fact, straight from Elon's ketamine brain
Good question! This reminds me somewhat of the great and excellent Adolf Hitler, who would distribute sandwiches to the masses. Let's clone him! Give your money to your local fascist cult!
can i get a hint on that last one
My daughter was doing math, basic second grade math, but the way they teach kids to solved math problems now is just not how we did it 30 years ago, and so when she has a problem, 9+8, and she's supposed to show her work, I have no idea the methods or anything that she's using and I am zero help to her.
Definitely not going to ask an AI though, that's silly.
That 9+8 thing holds true even when helping kindergarteners.
By "show your work" they mean "draw 9 blue pens and 8 red pens and then say you counted 17."
Teacher do it that way during class and wants everyone to do same but we don't have the context so us adults overthink it.
Yeah, this is some method of turning the 9 into 10, because it's easier to add 10 and 7 than it is 9 and 8, but I don't have enough info to help, because I just get told I'm doing it wrong by my kid. I was never into it either as a kid, but mental math would end up failing me later in life, so I'd like to help her, I just need more info!
It's funny because when I was in school I use to get lectured for not showing my work the way it was taught, but I didn't like the way it was taught so I came up with my own method. Turns out my method is now what they teach in school (basically, and obviously completely a coincidence).
If you'd like more research and context, the term to search for is "common core math".
Based on your other comments though, you've mostly got it down already though, but for the exact steps you'll be able to find pretty easily.
Rough example (don't quote me on it though, not a teacher): 12 x 7 isn't as "intuitive" as 10 x 7 or 12 x 5. So you do (10 x 7) + (2 x 7) = 70 + 14 = 84. You find the "common" "core" to make it easier, kind of like how we handled multipling fractions. The over all objective is to make it easier to do math quickly in your head, but since they are teaching it to kids, you have to prove you understand the thought process, which makes it seem like it's just over complicating things.
Either way though, kudos to you for trying to learn the new way and helping your kid with their homework in general. No matter what your kid will turn out great with a parent who shows they care like you do.
Oh I've seen that described years ago in reddit. It surprised me back then but when I think about it, all my adult life I'll do that, by now, instinctively.
I think I also saw to break down e.g. 7+8 into 5+2+5+3.
another option would be to prove it from first principles using Peano arithmetic. the teacher would probably love that.
It's the same as 10+4
At a gas station i saw a sandwich that said "inspired by AI" we're getting dumber every day
To be fair, the users they target really are bumbling idiots who need this.
The most tech literate of the bunch probably brag about being able to do the initial setup for their iPhones/iPads without having to take it to the Genius bar.
I see a frightening amount of women on hinge that answer the promt: who do you to to when you need help (or something) with chatgpt. Or chat gpt wrote my bio or chatgpt things i'm really smart
Okay, but with Sora 2, consider that you can...

Make SpongeBob cosplay as Hitler and create a video of Pikachu shoplifting pokeballs.
Think about how much value that ads.
Me: What should I have for lunch?
AI: Have you ever tried pinecone jam and barbequed hammers?
Pinecone jam sounds like a mountaintop bluegrass festival. Also an apt name for pesto.
Pinecone jam actually exists, but in defense of your joke, it has a very particular taste. You have to really love licorice to enjoy it.
Where are you guys seeing all these ads? Do you not have adblockers?
What do you use for DNS level blocking on android? I used to have an app, but it changed for the worse. Do you just set adguard dns as private DNS in your phone settings?
I'm so used to hard adblock everything, no ai google - that one time i opened adblockless browser and tried googling something instantly turned into that Joe Pesci meme - so many ads - KILL IT WITH FIRE
Live TV 😐
They're making it up. Just like how Republican memes make up situations about dangerous immigrant crimes happening in their city. AI bullshit on lemmy is the same shit as Republican immigration views on the right.
You wanna explain this stupid thing, then?
https://youtu.be/O_Q1hoEhfk4
What's wrong with it. How does it relate.
It is an imaginary friend for crazy people. And it's only $99, if you want one.
You could say the same about your computer or phone. Sitting alone in your room ignoring everything around you staring into a screen yelling about useless shit with strangers.
Would you?
Some people aren't terminally online. This includes watching TV or listening to the radio.
Huh, I've lived without ads of any kind other than what I see at the tramstop or going past stores that I never thought about AI ads being a thing. It's not surprising at all, both their existence and people falling for it, but it's just such a weird realisation.
The often used idea, in all kinds of media, of someone living in a weird dystopia and not really being aware of it but slowly getting hints and seeing stuff that makes them go "huh, this is some weird shit that's apparently daily life for a lot of people" is something I feel more and more.
And this isn't some "I'm smarter than them/everyone else" thing, it's just that my brain is wired in a way where I often get these moments of difference, and I know many people feel the same, especially here.
Never used or had interest in AI for anything other than a few minutes of "let's try this AI image generation thing to make weird shit".
Oh no I put too much sugar in my sauce. Time to make some dogshit passata cookies instead
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