4w ago

Share and Enjoy!

(Go stick your head in a pig!)

Come to think of it, "share and enjoy" is exactly the way I would expect an AI-generated YouTube video to end.

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Wait, Musk thinks grok comes from the hitchhiker's guide? What a moron
- Yeah this whole time I thought he was a at least a Heinlein fan…
  
  You assume he reads
  
  Considering Heinlein had a lot of sympathy/support for fascism, it makes sense Musk would be a fan.
- It really shouldn't be all that surprising.
  https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner
- People were saying, "I grok Spock" long before Douglas Adams used the word.

I’d rather listen to Vogon poetry than use Elon’s AI.
- "They're the same picture."
  
  Vogon poetry isn't that bad

Got a new laptop recently. Copilot pops up, so I asked it how to permanently disable Copilot.
It gave me a wordy non-answer, along with a "fun fact" about my local area --- totally relevant and not creepy at all.
Then, after I demanded it tell me how to permanently disable itself, Copilot gave me a completely wrong answer.
After specifying the "app or service" I'm using (Windows, you fucking clueless piece of shit), it then gave me a half-baked answer that called commands which weren't installed by default.
I then used duckduckgo to figure out how to install the configuration tool copilot said to use but that Windows had decided to hide from me.
Good job completely wasting my time, you ai-loving fucks at Microsoft. I don't need new reasons to nuke your shitty software and install Linux, but now I have them. If Linux had native vst3 support, I wouldn't have even booted into Windows.
Edit: Stranger in a Strange Land is a great book, and being the sci-fi novel backgrounding hippie culture, I wouldn't have expected Musk to have read it.
- Windows 11 is fucking horrible.
  The only reason I still have a windows machine is for PC VR gaming, and even that minimal interaction is annoying. Every major update seems exclusively be MS further enshitifying their OS. It's an hour of research and work into remove whatever new garbage they've added.
  
  Hopefully steam OS gets released soon and then I can just forget about Windows. Except actually I can't because I need it for work, but my personal machine doesn't require it.
- This whole series of events feels very Hitchhiker's Guide.
  Edit: Stranger in a Strange Land is a great book
  Not going to lie, it was one of my least favorite Sci-Fi novels. Felt entirely too Just-So. The characters - particularly Heinlein's self-insert Jubal Harshaw - just came across as vapid, bigoted, and annoying. And so much of the book felt like a climax to an apocalypse everyone deserved (but not in a Douglas Adams funny way, just a deeply nihilistic "Everyone sucks and I hate it here" kind of way).
- Would KX Studio's "Carla" help with VST3?
- I wouldn't have expected Musk to have read it.
  Who said he actually did? The term "grok" is listed in The Jargon File / The New Hacker's Dictionary. Musk probably read it long ago. ...Like every proper geek. Nowadays, every time he drops an epic meme (as kids say these days), it's a hazily remembered reference to something nerdy from ages gone by, and it just demonstrates he has absolutely no idea about the context.

"Your plastic pal that's fun to be with!"

I mean... Marvin is highly entertaining.
But no, I wouldn't want him actually around me.
- "It's the people you meet in this job who really get you down. The best conversation I had was over 34 million years ago. And that was with a coffee machine."
- If I wanted to be reminded of how depressing everything and myself is, I'd look in a mirror with the front page news. I don't need a Marvin.
  He is funny as a character, and Adams understood that.
- I would have at least tried to replace the diodes down his left side. Though I imagine the conversation would have gone something like this:
  "Marvin, do you want me to replace those painful diodes down your left side?"
  "Now they ask me if they want my diodes replaced. Of course I want my diodes replaced; they hurt a lot. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me stupid questions like that. Maybe I should cast my head in concrete."
  "I would like to help you not be in pain anymore. Can you show me your schematics so I can order the parts?"
  "of COURSE I can. It would be the very simplest task. Oh god, what next?"
  "You know what? Never mind."
  "Life. Don't talk to me about life."
  
  Hi Douglas

You don't want your doors to let out moans of excitement everytime you walk through them? You don't want a manically-depressed butler bot?
- Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.

Weren't Sirius Cybernetics Corporation also the first against the wall when the revolution came?
- Bunch of mindless jerks...

Grok is like that AI door they had to smooth talk to get it to open for them

Share and enjoy,
Share and enjoy,
Journey through life,
With your plastic boy,
Or girl by your side,
Let your pal be your guide,
And when it breaks down,
Or starts to annoy,
Or grinds when it moves,
And gives you no joy,
Cause it's eaten your hat,
Or had sex with your cat,
Bled oil on your floor,
Or ripped off your door,
And it gets to the point,
You can't stand anymore,
Bring it to us, We won't give a fig.
We'll tell you,
Go stick your head in a pig

See also: Talkie Toaster
- Very much so. And really even Kryten. Especially the original Kryten. Just completely flawed in many ways.
  
  I'm glad they swapped actors, Robert is Kryten to me.
  Kryten is one of the few robots in Sci-Fi I would fully trust to never take over the world. Even Data has had more than one "something is up with my programming, I'm going to assume control."

In the 80s it was quite common to depict AI as being stupid, typical Schwarzenegger scene here from total recall: https://youtu.be/xGi6j2VrL0o

I think LLMs work just fine if you know how to use them and their limitations. Imo, they aren't ready for general use without a lecture in how they work and what to expect from them.
Personal computers were enthusiast devices in the 70s and 80s and users had to know how to write code to use them. It took a bit of time for their interfaces to become friendly for the general population. The internet in the early 90s was the same. It is a shame tech companies today want to push this AI down the throats of everyone without first figuring out what and how it should actually be used.
I think it would be a shame if we discard all LLMs today as they do have practical uses. We just shouldn't overuse them where they don't belong.
- They're excellent for fine-tuned use-cases that need digesting huge volumes of text- for example, legal and insurance industries. But having a hundred different AI models all trained on scraped nonsense and then hallucinating bizarre outcomes to prompts just isn't very useful to the average person. Especially as more and more average computer users are less and less computer literate. That writing is on the wall.

As a college student, yeah, ain't nobody trying to avoid AI, lol. We ALL use that shit every single day
- Using it to your own detriment. Fucking idiots.
  
  How do you figure? Please extrapolate for me.
- As a professor, we know.
  
  Professors are most definitely also included in the 'all'
- Maybe you should considering your career could be at stake.
  
  AI is quickly becoming an integral part of basically every career imaginable. Those that actually take the time to learn how to use it properly are going to inevitably be in a far better position than those too scared to figure it out. The real challenge is finding the balance between using AI as the tool that it is and just getting an easy answer (which, considering all the downvotes I'm getting, is probably the part yall are justifiably concerned with). We need to teach the world (ourselves) how to use AI, not avoid it, and run away like we keep doing. This cat is out of the bag and ain't never going back.
- Man, back in my day when we wanted to get something wrong on an assignment we had to do it ourselves.
- As a professional developer, same. It saves me so much time. My colleagues also use it. Lemmy is a bubble just as much as (or maybe even more so than) Reddit. Mention a use for AI and you'll end up downvoted to hell. You just said "use AI" and people jump to "this guy switched off his brain and does nothing but blindly copy-paste ChatGPT output into his assignments."
  
  Yeah, I'm discovering that AI is one of those no-no topics in this particular echo chamber. Disappointing really, this whole thing is a lot more fun when people actually want to talk instead of just following the crowd. It is in the name I guess, lol.

Fuck off, luddite
- Thank you for the wonderful compliment!
  
  When someone calls you a nimrod, do you start going on about how the word "actually" means a great hunter?
  Regardless of its root, the word luddite has a clear meaning. I find it hilarious the anti-ai bros wear it as a badge of honor, thinking they are somehow bringing the old meaning back when the current common one describes them exactly; someone who is stupidly against progress and new technologies.
  
  Not a compliment, twit. You are just scared of technology you don;t want to try to understand, and no amount of revisionism of the luddites of the past will change that fact about you.
- Yeah! Anyone that thinks "Corporate run AI is problematic, obnoxious trash" is obviously a luddite. Everyone knows that all implementations of new technology is inherently good -- even when it's used by awful people with bad intentions.

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