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[–] [email protected] 130 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I'm often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about "turbo" as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy "turbo" sunglasses or "turbo" watches or "turbo" after-shave.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (2 children)

2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

HD and 3D.

marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Lever 2000 comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These days it's Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it's just a slightly better version of an enshittified product

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (7 children)

or "plus". still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago
[–] 5redie8 11 points 4 months ago

Walmart plus

hahahahapain

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower

turbon't

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there's no turbo in it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be "HD".

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

About a hundred years ago you could buy a "radio flyer". It's a red wagon. People don't change.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

We need turbo smart AI things.

Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And it's usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I'm talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can't recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Wait, are you trying to tell me the moon landing was real? It was clearly filmed in Siberia why else would the ground look so white, it's the Siberian snow obviously.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was fake but they hired Stanley Kubrick to film it and, being the perfectionist he was, he shot on location on the moon.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

They did it with AI. Look closely, one of the astronauts has six fingers.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Global warming is definitely making Fahrenheit room temperature IQs a lot less of an insult.

Our house has been in the mid 80s all week.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly what an AI would say...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly what a fellow human person would say...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Thoughts with anyone called Al at this difficult time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Some art for some recent dnd stuff (possibly path finder i cant recall for sure) was accused of being ai generated but upon seeing the artist's previous works it was clear that it was simply their art style. Really unfortunate bc they got a lot of hate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

They don't mind, as long as they can call you Betty.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hah my sneaky brain edited that right out, didn't even notice until you pointed it out

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

No, please, call everything AI.

Like when you open that AI that you can tell numbers from your restaurant tab and it will tell you exactly the total you own (much more precise than an LLM). Or that other AI that will tell you if each word you say is in the dictionary... Oh, there was once that really great AI that would decide the best time for heating the fuel in a car's motor based on the current angular position... too bad people decided to replace this one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah kinda tired of it. We don't even have AI yet, and here people are throwing around the term right and left and then accusing everything under the sun to be generated by it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ai isn't magic, we've had ai for a looong time. AGI that surpasses humans? not yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No we haven't. We have an appearance of a AI. Large language models and diffusion models are just machine learning. Algorithm statistic engines.

Nothing thinks, creates, cares, or knows the difference between something correct or wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

I know enough about how LLMs work to gauge how intelligent they are. The reason I have a different opinion than you is not because you or I lack understanding of how LLMs or diffusion models work, its simply that my definition of AI is more "lenient" than yours.

EDIT: Arguing about which definition is more correct is pointless because it's totally subjective. However I think that a more lenient definition of AI is more useful in this case, because with more strict definitions we probably never will have something that could be considered AI.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

AI is broader term then you think, it goes back to the beginnings of modern computing with Alan Turing. You seem to be thinking about the movie definition of AI, not the academic.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This movie is like a fever dream. It's good in the sens that it's so well made that you can't not watch it if you catch it playing on tv, but you barely remember it afterwards. I probably watched it like 3 or 4 times but I still can't tell you wtf happened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

All I remember is Haley Joel Osment's droopy face after eating spinach or whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Context? Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?

[–] zarkanian 5 points 4 months ago

Context?

It was under a YouTube video where it was just the song and a cover picture.

Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?

That's exactly my point.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I bet this post is AI

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