water and electricity were used to guide you in how to locate this all you can eat buffet you speak of

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Honestly I find AI is more and more getting like this

    I’ve asked it to do repetitive tasks and it tells me I should auromate them.

    No shit.

    • llama@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Well yeah if you can have it write a script to do the same thing over and over again, that’s more efficient and reliable than asking AI to process similar data multiple times.

      • ganymede@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        if they’re talking about what i think they are, it isn’t the (very good) point you’ve made about scripting viability, but instead a kind of recursive bluster, exactly like whats shown in the OP pic.

        an example would be you ask it to write a script to automate something, and it suggests asking an LLM to do it, instead of just fucking doing it like it used to for the same basic type of prompt, hence why it looks like enshitifcation rather than progress.

        purely my opinion here, but i suspect it’s got nothing to do with model fidelity or the state of the art and everything to do with some bs profit-seeking human intervention or masking some other bs business decision.

        • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          This is it. It feels like they’re all trying to make uses use less compute while they continue to crank at training destroying Yogi Bear’s habitat.

    • ganymede@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      yeh and then you have to explicitly instruct it.

      wonder if its some engagement hack bs to boost the number of interactions or something.

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        Add a custom default search engine on your browser of choice with the url https://www.google.com/search?q=PLACEHOLDER&udm=14, replacing PLACEHOLDER with whatever your browser needs it to be. Subject to stop working whenever google chooses, so keep that in mind.

      • 87Six@lemmy.zip
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        6 months ago

        Yes, in your google account settings, though yea you need a google account. I’d tell you but I have no idea how to turn it back ON. I think to turn it off I clicked the 3 dots next to the AI overview.

        It’s definitely tied to your google account tho because it does appear for me in incognito.

        I checked if I turned it off with an extension and no I didn’t. I turned all my extensions off.

        OR, USE STARTPAGE and stop complaining.

        Google shoves things down your throat, and you happily swallow, but then you complain online without even looking up “turn off google AI overview” or something.

        • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Wow, dude, who hurt you?

          Anyway thanks for the answer, i didn’t find the option from a quick glance though so 🤷

          • 87Six@lemmy.zip
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            6 months ago

            The people that hurt me are the ones that spend hours of their life complaining on the internet but don’t spend 5 minutes trying to find an answer or stand up for themselves

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I can’t wait until Windows 12, the AI-first operating system, comes out. People will ask Copilot to open the system settings and it’ll be like “That’s a great place to start! You can open the system settings by asking Windows Copilot to open the system settings!”

    • BilSabab@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Windows 13 is going to have first completely uncooperative AI. You ask him to open system setting and it says “the fuck’s good for me, eh?”. You tell him to download Winamp and it tells you “what the fuck is that shit? it does even collect your data! fuck you, i’m not dowloading that, the gall!” or you tell him to turn itself off and it tells you “nah, i’m good” or if you ask to switch to manual it tells you “get fucked, you ain’t getting that”.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Thanks for sharing. I use a metasearch engine so I don’t have to see it. Unfortunately that doesn’t make a big difference in the broader picture. For most users this is the default experience. Slop at the top, then advertisements and only then what a search engine is supposed to return. And those burnt CPU cycles will be forced upon them. And I guess that’s pretty much normalized by now. Probably also the reason why Google does it in the first place.

    • atmorous@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Can you create a short guide that I can share with non-tech people for the metasearch engines you recommend?

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Uh sorry, I don’t have a good recommendation. I myself use a self-hosted instance of SearXNG but that’s a bit much for the non-tech people and it doesn’t work that well due to all the rate-limiting of Google etc so it’ll intermittently stop working and I just can’t recommend it. I know lots of people use Duckduckgo, Startpage or Ecosia. But I’m not an expert on them, if they provide privacy or whether they care for the environment or do green washing. So I’m afraid I can’t make a good statement here.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    This is why it’s absolutely ridiculous that Google automatically has AI answer search queries. One time I searched the serial number of a washing machine and the AI came back and said something along the lines of, this looks like a serial number for some sort of product. Yeah thanks for that.

    I don’t necessarily have a problem with AI although I think it’s going to kill the economy, my biggest issue is AI being stuffed into everything in situations where it doesn’t make sense.