If you don't pay your monthly vacuum fee, Hoover will turn it off remotely.

I saw a Bluetooth toothbrush that send reports to your phone on how good you brushed your teeth, like wtf?!

AI isn't a product for consumers, its a product for investors. If somewhere down the line a consumer benefits in some way, that's just a side effect.

Yep. I have middle management above me gleefully cheering the fact that ChatGPT can write their reports for them now. Well guess what, it can write those reports for me, the actual person doing the real work, and you are now redundant.

Copilot is often a brilliant autocomplete, that alone will save workers plenty of time if they learn to use it.

I know that as a programmer, I spend a large percentage of my time simply transcribing correct syntax of whatever’s in my brain to the editor, and Copilot speeds that process up dramatically.

A friend of mine works in marketing (think "websites for small companies"). They use an LLM to turn product descriptions into early draft advertising copy and then refine from there. Apparently that saves them some time.

I'm a developer with about 15 years of experience. I got into my company's copilot beta program.

Now maybe you are some magical programmer that knows everything and doesn't need stack overflow, but for me it's all but completely replaced it. Instead of hunting around for a general answer and then applying it to my code, I can ask very explicitly how to do that one thing in my code, and it will auto generate some code that is usually like 90% correct.

Same thing when I'm adding a class that follows a typical pattern elsewhere in my code...well it will auto generate the entire class, again with like 90% of it being correct. (What I don't understand is how often it makes up enum values, when it clearly has some context about the rest of my code) I'm often shocked as to how well it knew what I was about to do.

I have an exception thats not quite clear to me? Well just paste it into the copilot chat and it gives a very good plain English explanation of what happened and generally a decent idea of where to look.

And this is a technology in it's infancy. It's only been released for a little over a year, and it has definitely improved my productivity. Based on how I've found it useful, it will be especially good for junior devs.

I know it's in, especially on lemmy, to shit on AI, but I would highly recommend any dev get comfortable with it because it is going to change how things are done and it's, even in its current form, a pretty useful tool.

I use Bluetooth all the time for speakers and headsets, also the PlayStation 3 controller was Bluetooth, so would that not mean AI will be a top of the line tool in 2 years? I personally don't use it for anything at the moment, but in 2003 Plantronics released Bluetooth headsets for corporate environments (IP phones usually still used to this day).

Seems like more of a we aren't sure where this tool is most useful yet, but it will be used by many people around us.

a simple "if" "then" algorithm

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They've been claiming things like rice cookers had AI for decades, so at least this isn't part of the current AI hype.

So. You would have to be what 5 meters max to talk to him? What does that even mean?

It was always clear that VR, 3D, blockchain were fads. But AI is already useful as is. The hype may not be as high in the future but AI is here to stay.

Quite possibly. I don't think I've ever had any Bluetooth device work without hiccups. My old earbuds used to disconnect or lose pairing all the time. A couple of game controllers I have only worked intermittently for years. My phone is always losing connection in our car. I've ironed out some of the problems, but I've never had Bluetooth just work for me.