Not all ai is bad, just most of it

We need to strike back with an AI customer which alerts us if we could finally talk or chat again with a human if all automatic solutions are discussed.

Do not use ai for plant identification if it actually matters what the plant is.

Just so ppl see this:

DO NOT EVER USE AI FOR PLANT IDENTIFICATION IN CASES WHERE THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES TO FAILURE.

For walking along and seeing what something is, that’s fine. No big deal if it tells you something’s a turkey oak when it’s actually a pin oak.

If you’re gonna eat it or think it might be toxic or poisonous to you, if you want to find out what your pet or livestock ate, if you in any way could suffer consequences from misidentification: do not rely on ai.

The blanket term "AI" has set us back quite a lot I think.

The plant thing and the deepfakes/search engines/chatbots are two entirely different types of machine learning algorithm. One focussed on distinguishing between things, the other focussed on generating stuff.

But "AI" is the marketable term, and the only one most people know. And so here we are.

Plants, maybe. Fungi, hell no.

AI + fungi = you die

I don't actually know if it's considered a deepfake when it's just a voice; but I've been using the hell out of Speechify, which basically deepfakes voices and pairs them with a text input.

...so... nursing school, we have an absolute fuck-ton of reading assignments. Staring at a page of text makes my brain melt, but thankfully nowadays everything's digital, so I can copy entire chapters at a time, and paste them into Speechify. Now suddenly I have Snoop-dogg giving me a lecture on how to manage a patient as they're coming out of general anesthesia. Gets me through the reading fucking fast, and it retains so, SO much better than just trying to cram a bunch of flavorless text.

The difference is that plant identification is a classification problem, not an LLM.

upscaling of old media is pretty cool too

I've learned that training a model to search your (companies) unmaintainable, unorganized, and continuously growing documentation storage is a godsend.

I am totally looking forward to AI customer support. The current model of a person reading a scripted response is painful and fucking awful and only rarely leads to a good resolution. I would LOVE an AI support where I could just describe the problem and it gives me answers and it only asks relevant follow up questions. I can't wait.

hmm guess which one also doesn't suck the energy equivalent of a sizeable town

I am a physicist. I am good at math, okay at programming, and not the best at using programming to accomplish the math. Using AI to help turn the math in my brain into functional code is a godsend in terms of speed, as it will usually save me a ton of time even if the code it returns isn't 100% correct on the first attempt. I can usually take it the rest of the way after the basis is created. It is also great when used to check spelling/punctuation/grammar (so using it like the glorified spellcheck it is) and formatting markup languages like LaTeX.

I just wish everyone would use it to make their lives easier, not make other people's lives harder, which seems to be the way it is heading.

"AI renaming image files for easier search"

You're cool, though, you can stay

I've had to literally perform a Google search to find a customer support phone number before. Because the website of the company just kept redirecting me in circles.

Their phone support was just as useless, though.

It was GameStop, by the way.

Using it for plant identification is fine as long as it's an AI designed/trained for plant ID (even then don't use it to decide if you can eat it). Just don't use an LLM for plant ID, or for anything else relating to actual reality. LLMs are only for generating plausible-sounding strings of text, not for facts or accurate info.

I got my first AI telemarketer, and that sucked.

I realized pretty quickly that it wasn't a real person, but my elderly neighbor didn't. She told me how bad she felt just hanging up on this "person," but she just couldn't get them off the line. (I told her I had the same experience, and I'll warn her about AI Robots at a different time- I didn't want to make her feel foolish.)

AI YouTube rankings

Funny seeing this around now.

Was looking into trying to find an AI to make stories from images, since I have to deal with the unfortunate reality that for a fandom I like, just about all the fanfic is unbelievably badly written to the point that an AI does a better job making interesting stories. I know they exist, just a question of where the ones that work are.

Simple ask you'd think wanting to find shit that generates stories from images. Search engines hardly helped, so it was like, fine, I'll ask an AI about AI. Surely it'll help me find the tool I need, right?

Somehow the results it gave me were worse than the search engine itself.

There is one good use for AI and we have found it on a forum I frequent.

That use is putting Godzilla in ridiculous situations.

Sign up with iNaturalist for plant and animal identification! Citizen science is good for you.

First time I've seen this meme template. Love it.

great use of this scene. I was just referencing it the other day and it sorta got lost

AI is what we make it. That being said, there has not been a proper filtering of input for AIs learning pool. Shotgun approach may be easiest and fastest but is not bestest

I appreciate hearing Plankton sing stuff, so that's cool.

AI search is great.

The more "searchey", and less "generativey", the better. What goes against the direction every provider is going, but it's still great.

Reinforcement learning gang?

mmm yes im sure this AI wont tell me that a poisonous plant is safe to eat. Surely nothing bad will come of this.

Not so sure what is so cool about "regularly wrong and dangerous".

I'm still hoping for good customer support AI. If I'm going to be connected to someone who barely speaks English and is required to follow a prewritten script, or worse plays prerecorded messages to fake being fluent, I might as well talk to an AI, especially if it means shorter hold times.

AI is a bad replacement for good customer service, but it could be an improvement over bad customer service.

Ai search is cool though

Mine’s really good at IDing Dicots…

For once, AI be useful and bring venomous snakes identification.

Still waiting for an AI NPC that I can have a real-time conversation with in VR while slaying a dragon on some shit

That plant is totally cool to eat. It doesn't matter that it is a mushroom.

It seems, by the comments, that everyone is quite enjoying all that ai has to offer right now. I think if we phrase the question in a good way, everyone is also quite excited to see the development in the future.

Why is it the hype right now to hate ai? Sure, the brands are pushing their half baked products everywhere, but I think this is a part of the journey. Good products can't happen without it.

I actually like AI search, because it cuts through all the SEO bullshit. Although yes, I do recognize that search engines cause SEO spam.

Regular chatgpt is perfectly serviceable and fine. It does what I need. And I've used Bings AI to make cassette tape art and memes of coworkers.

Maybe deepfakes could teach ppl to not upload faces on internet. I pray this day comes when it will ruin all the picture social media but the price could be too high

Generative AI: bad.

Other kinds of AI: mostly bad.

Don't want AI bots? Stop calling 911 from the drive-thru when your fucking burger doesn't have enough ketchup on it you goddamn mouth breathing idiots. That's why they can't get to the heart attack victim, so that's why you're going to get a bot.

The sooner you see this as a reaction to a stimulus you are the source of, the sooner it goes away.

Hey, deep fakes are awesome. They are a necessary step in the evolution of the technology that leads to holodecks.

I want holodecks, I bet you want holodecks, practically everyone wants holodecks, so we have to go through this stage of the tech to get there.