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Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Feel like we've got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you've got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like "bro this is so scary how good we made this thing". Seems like bullshit.

I've seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don't think I'd just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cryptocurrencies didn't solve any problems

Well XMR solved one problem, but yeah the rest are just gambling with extra steps

[–] can 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What problem is that? Genuinely asking.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Traceability.

Regular financial transfers, be they credit card, direct debit, straight-up written cheques, Interac/E-transfer (I am Canadian, that's an us thing) are all inherently tracable.

XMR/Monero is not tracable, it's specifically designed not to be, unlike Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies.

Of course, shitheads consider that to be a problem, but fuck them, they're shitheads; it's a solution, to the problem they cause.

For context, I say all this as someone who is vehemently opposed to prohibition; as far as I'm concerned every person who works for the DEA should be imprisoned or shot

[–] can 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. That's quite the way to end a comment though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean it though.

The people working for the DEA now are no better than the people working to enforce alcohol prohibition in 1919. It'd be nice if humanity would learn, with a hundred years to think about it, but the ruling class at least haven't. They enforce poorly thought out puritanical laws, and the world would be better off without them.

If I lived in America rather than Canada, which thank god I don't, the DEA would happily kick down my door, shoot me, and then probably also shoot my wife, who doesn't even partake of anything beyond alcohol, but would obviously be upset about my being shot.

All cops are bastards, and should be torched with molotovs at any available opportunity. If they didn't want to be bastards, they shouldn't have signed up as cops; it's not like they're conscripts