Ten years ago I was using AI to identify cats in mass batches of trail cam photos, and it’s still useful for that. Nothing changes.
First as tragedy, second as farce.
I am so happy in my Arch Linux, no AI, no “this pc”, almost everything under my control. Windows used to be great until the enshitification started to spread like plague everywhere. I still have a decades old bank intel laptop (19+ years old, literally acquired from a bank and they were about to throw it and many others away but I managed to take one with me, it is huge and makes my chest look small) with a working windows 7 I sometimes use to relieve nostalgia, not going to change anything on it plus it became a relic.
Kubuntu here! Got s proxmox server in the garage!
What are the actual chances he reads that?
The whole demo about this was so stupid. The user said “the text on this website is to small, I cannot read it”, and the ai points out how to click through the windows system setting to find the UI scale option which was at 150%. Then it suggest to set it to the current setting of 150% because there was a label “recommended” on it.
It’s a fail on so many levels. Why could it not just set it without telling the user to “click here” through 5 different dialogs and windows? Why set it to the same setting it already has? Why not set the browsers scale if the user said “this website is to small”?
They just want to stuff ai into everything with knowing what problem they need to solve.
As to why not just do it, problem is that the LLM will generate something to do even if it doesn’t know the correct answer. You don’t want agentic ai to go to town because it will screw up and be even harder or impossible to undo whatever it generated to do.
This specific demo worked, but it’s a crapshoot as to whether a scenario will work as an llm “failure” still generates output, and nothing knows that it is “wrong”.
Every other update in ANYTHING has this shit shoveled at us. My god it’s getting so annoying. I had to look up how to get my search bar to stop freaking asking me to ask Google AI about my search! Every goddamn search!
When OpenAI crashes, Microsoft just like gets it. They literally don’t care if there is a bubble, in fact they are at least partially incentivised to create the bubble and then let it burst.
Theres no downside for MS
My friend installed a local LLM copilot to his computer and asked it if he had any extra files that could be deleted. It just doesn’t seem smart to query a LLM when people have hard coded apps that will do the same. I have a space saving program that searches app directories and my files and lists unwanted files that I van delete to save space. Why are we remaking the wheel with half of the bloat LLMS is trash
Shit human pushing shit tech that makes people stupider, encourages them to kill themselves, worships fascism, and destroys the planet. Yeah, wow, go figure.
Always seems to be the people who understand computers the least that are tasked with selling these products or managing the companies they makes them. By these products I do of course mean AI and microsoft
1990s Dilbert comics, but in real life.
“Profoundly impressive”?
I find nothing profound about it at all. It’s a devastating resource hog, it’s wrong a lot of the time, it’s manipulated by its owners to deliver the messages they want or avoid inconveniencing them, it lends itself to the further stupidification of humans who are too lazy to fact check(that’s almost everyone), it’s used to make video lies in the face of objective truth and sexually humiliate women.
Honestly, fuck AI.
Why it couldn’t be strictly deployed as a backup to human skill such as looking for cancer, trying to formulate better drugs, etc. instead of the invasive garbage it is being used to get rid of humans.
Making sand output what feels like a real conversation is impressive. Making nuclear bombs is impressive. Bad things can be impressive.
I didn’t say the potential capabilities weren’t impressive. Creating interesting things from text prompts is impressive. I do not find it profound.
Ai is great. It can detect cancers earlier. It can optimize traffic lights to reduce travel times and accidents. It can calculate folds of proteins. It can find and summarize tiny details from huge sets of data.
Fuck cramming it into my operating system though. I don’t need an LLM to run a query on Lightroom and give me a summary of the application and suggest how I can download and install it when it is already installed on my system and I just want to filter my list of apps so I don’t need to scroll halfway down my programs list to open it.
The problem isn’t AI. The problem is the people selling it.
Why did you just say what I said while initially contradicting me yet ignore the valid ctiticisms?
The reply correctly highlighted the idea that AI is ‘impressive’. It wasn’t a denial of your critiques of AI.
If this was a verbal conversation you’d think that was a normal response instead of someone picking a fight.
I find nothing profound about it at all.
Honestly, fuck AI.
I was under the assumption that you were against AI all together, not just the data-scraping privacy-violating megacorp deployments of LLMs.
Koolaid comes in many flavors
The security and privacy are reversed. It’s additional privacy and potential security concerns.
Anyone got a mirror for that image? Won’t load for me
Ya big sexy legend
what is even the use case? like for a normal user, instead of like clicking on a programm, they tell the ai to open the program?
like a shell that is just … worse?
or is it supposed to help fix you with having a problem with the operating system? which would be ironic
like only use case i can imagine is for like old people who just can not handle their pc. But the result will just be them sending all their money to a scammer
There’s a bunch of usecases.
For example, you can just tell Copilot to do a thing instead of spending however long it would take to google a solution. Will it gimp learning? Of course it will. But that’s technology advancement in a nutshell - making things more accessible, by making them easier, thus making some baseline levels of knowledge obsolete. We no longer learn Assembly to interact with our computers, future generations won’t know where Settings are, because an AI Agent will be doing it all for them.
Another example is people suffering from disabilities or even just temporary injuries. Imagine being able to fire up your PC and just tell it to play your favourite show, instead of having to use your feet or, I don’t know, a pencil in your mouth, to click through the windows.
The idea is excellent. The implementation is some 5 years too early. The AI systems available, in their current form, are just not there yet for this to work well. Microsoft even pulled an ad they made recently, because people noticed that Copilot made an error there. Or even multiple errors.
I think you have a point, but i also think it would cause a hemorrhage of skilled users. Especially because it would become a very easy tool for increased corpo control over your device. Suddenly your ripped TNG dvds that are indistinguishable from pirated ones are no longer accessible by you just going to your well labeled file location. Now you have a really convenient os that you can tell in plain English that you’d like you pull up some star trek and it says ok and tries to download a streaming service app. You tell it that you’d like to watch the DVD rips you have of it instead and it tells you that those files have been locked for possible copyright violations.
That’s just the scenario that came to mind immediately.
I think you have a point, but i also think it would cause a hemorrhage of skilled users
I agree. However, at the same time, I recognise that when the first OS with GUI was released, people were saying the exact same thing.
Especially because it would become a very easy tool for increased corpo control over your device
In its current form, the agent will be run locally (requiring a device with an NPU), so corpo won’t have any access or control to your device.
Suddenly your ripped TNG dvds that are indistinguishable from pirated ones are no longer accessible by you just going to your well labeled file location
It would be impossible for an AI agent to distinguish a ripped DVD from a home-made recording, so that’s not possible.
Also - it’s not replacing the GUI. You can still do everything manually if you prefer that.
Imagine being able to fire up your PC and just tell it to play your favourite show, instead of having to use your feet or, I don’t know, a pencil in your mouth,
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In its current form, the agent will be run locally (requiring a device with an NPU), so corpo won’t have any access or control to your device.
I’m imagining this so hard right now.
The end game is probably something like “Write me a report from x and y about z and send it to my phone” or somerhing. And it does that in Microsoft-approved software and sends the data to MS too.
Just so you can imagine yourself having a personal Jarvis instead of doing the thing yourself and get better with it.
what is even the use case? like for a normal user, instead of like clicking on a programm, they tell the ai to open the program?
Yeah, so they can feel like they’re in Star Trek. Except it’s shitty and nowhere near utopia.
We’re actually right right in line for World War 3 in 2026 per the official Star Trek timeline. That should last 27 years.
You know, I don’t remember them trying to talk to the Enterprise’s computer in any of the TOS films. They downplayed that a lot, I think for enhanced realism. It stayed canon that you could talk to computers, but they only did to set the self destruct sequence.
Either way, by TNG they were back at it, and they got in the habit of “Computer: create a holodeck program simulating the appearance and personality of the engineer who designed the Enterprise. Run it in Holodeck 2.” We’re getting pretty close to that capability now, minus the room full of VR.
The problem? LLMs will tell you to add elmer’s glue to pizza sauce to hold the cheese in place, because someone joked about that on Reddit once. They have no sense of reality.
In fact, it’s kind of amazing how well the writers of TNG did with that episode and it’s follow-up. The simulated Leah started showing romantic behavior, and Geordi formed a parasocial relationship with Leah Brahms…a married woman who didn’t know Geordi personally, and so there was this uncomfortable moment where Geordi was uncomfortably familiar with a complete stranger. The Enterprise’s computer hallucinated a Leah Brahms who was single and ready to mingle.
They’re working on making that problem into a consumer product.
It’s for people who are functionally illiterate. They think this opens up a whole new market for them to sell to.
