Or even like modern wifi. I saw a vacuum with wifi capabilities. Do I really need to check my vacuum battery level from my phone?
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I saw a Bluetooth toothbrush that send reports to your phone on how good you brushed your teeth, like wtf?!
It also send reports to they corporate overlords. Most probably anyway.
Oh I'm sure your health insurance would love to know the condition of your teeth to increase your rates.
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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.
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This is so spot on. I use AI all the time, but the hype and "we should AI all the things" is ridiculous.
I blame it on bullshit jobs. Too many people have to come up with weekly nonsense busywork tasks just to justify themselves. Also the usual FOMO. "Guys, we can't fall behind the competition on this!"
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.
As a person with a useless boss who does almost nothing and (of course) gets paid more than me, I like this take! Let AI report on workers and watch productivity (and profits) soar!
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I work for a fairly big IT company. They're currently going nuts about how generative AI will change everything for us and have been for the last year or so. I'm yet to see it actually be used by anyone.
I imagine the new Microsoft Office copilot integration will be used only slightly more than Clippy was back in the day.
But hey, maybe I'm just an old man shouting at the AI powered cloud.
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.
problem is when the autocomplete just starts hallucinating things and you don't catch it
If you blindly accept autocompletion suggestions then you deserve what you get. AIs aren’t gods.
AI's aren't god's.
Probably will happen soon.
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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.
It saves a ton of time. I've worked with clients before and I'll put a lorem ipsum as a placeholder for text they're supposed to provide. Then the client will send me a note saying there's a mistake and the text needs to be in English. If the text is almost close enough to what the client wants, they might actually read it and send edits if you're lucky.
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So you are saying that AI today is like Bluetooth today
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.
That's very fair. I don't like how unpredictable Bluetooth is when you have multiple peripherals and multiple hosts paired to eachother and all within range of eachother.
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I remember seeing a DankPods video about a rice cooker with quote-unquote "AI rice" technology. Spoiler alert: there is no AI in there.
So... it's not even putting it in something where it's not useful, it's straight up false advertising.
They've been claiming things like rice cookers had AI for decades, so at least this isn't part of the current AI hype.
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This reminds me I'm into season 5 of Burn Notice and Sam said at one point, "I'm on Bluetooth if you need me". It was a weird reminder that once upon a time people were paid to advertise just... Bluetooth, because that's a brand name. These days it's just everywhere.
The product placements in that show are not exactly subtle. Excellent show though, I did not expect it to hold up so well.
So. You would have to be what 5 meters max to talk to him? What does that even mean?
Boomers learned what Bluetooth was because they started making AirPod-style single ear headsets for cell phones. Everyone called them “a Bluetooth”.
So if you said “I’m on Bluetooth” it means you’d have your big clunky EarPod on, ready to answer a call at a moments notice.
A former fucking spy wouldn’t be caught dead using early Bluetooth for sensitive conversations though (and probably not current BT either). Considering every other segment of that show is a “here’s a hack to show how fragile the house of cards of modern society is, and how spies just navigate through it with impunity”, it’s pretty funny they leaned into this one.
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Or like the blockchain 5 years ago
Or like VR 10 years ago
Or like 3D 15 years ago
It is the hot new thing that you have to use for the VCs to fund your company and for investors to buy your stocks, regardless of the actual utility. AI does seem to have at least more possibilities of usage than those technologies, but it also have an incredibly higher possibility of misuse that is being completely ignored by these companies
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.
VR is also around, it's possibly the most popular it's ever been. It's still a small niche compared to its initial promise.
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I strongly disagree. 3D, VR and blockchain have limited use. They were just extremely overhyped. It's the exact same now with AI. It has uses, yes, but you don't need it in your toothbrush.
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Like bluetooth. So, not particularly good even for the applications it's supposed to be used for
Makes me feel a little better. In 2024 I Can't get a "Windows ready" Bluetooth dongle to be recognized by my still supported Windows computer.
To be fair, we only know where Bluetooth is useful because we put it in a lot of places where it wasn't useful
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That scene in Better Call Saul with the investment guy permanently on his BT earpiece was such a wave of nostalgia for me, used to see those everywhere in the 2000s with a little blue light on them flashing.
is it just me who hasn't ever had any bluetooth problems?
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.
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