@djsumdog I think the people who understand the matter are aware that it's useless except for a few niche cases, and therefore, don't. And those who do not understand, as you say, see it as oracular.
One of my tired tropes is pointing out that the people who discuss "artificial intelligence" inevitably have no useful definition of "intelligence" to begin with, and tend to wax poetic along the lines of Vernor Vinge as a function of what is one of the new religions of the retarded.
The new paganism makes idols of politics, artificial intelligence, the (belief in the) perfectibility of man ("if everyone thought as i do, we would know perfection!"), the (belief in the) perfectibility of society ("we're communism, self driving cars, and a few more robots away from paradise!"), and the worship of self ("my identity matters! USE MY PRONOUNS! I'm dragonkin!", etc.)
AI, the "intelligence" birthed by man is seen as a miracle to justify their faith. "We are godlike, behold: ChatGPT. Or several hundred Indians. Whatever."
@noyoushutthefuckupdad i gave it a few basic tasks to see how it worked, and it manged to fuck up two out of seven of them.
You know how people that rely on GPS are eventually unable to navigate on their own? I realized that there was a future in not being AI-brained (brained by AI?) and stay clear of it.
At the end of the day, like search, it's more of a user observatory than anything else.
This includes anything: therapy confessions, financial planning, late-night breakdowns. All of it, stored.
The reason? Media companies like the New York Times are suing OpenAI for allegedly training ChatGPT on their copyrighted content. To build a case, they want everything saved..."
We can continue having interesting, engaging conversations about computers, politics, and school -- and just play a bit of whack-a-mole with retards, bots, whatever.
@vicious@gray@phnt@p@sendpaws@lanodan your lack of attention span and "gibs" attitude is pathetic. I'm pretty sure your use of "nigger" is pure projection.
@vicious@gray@phnt@p@sendpaws@lanodan if you can't be bothered to read, it's not that important to you. I'll try not to notice that your complaint is very similar to "I ain't got no time for that sheeit."
@vicious@gray@phnt@p@sendpaws@lanodan coming from someone who can barely read and asks others to do the work for him, I'm not sure you're in a position to call anyone retarded.
@sendpaws@gray@vicious@phnt@p@lanodan It also goes to show what a top-down situation it is -- all of this stuff erupted all at the same time, transnationally, going back to the part of this thread about schools being designed for top-down control and (if not stated explicitly) social engineering.
I was shocked when I went to vote and saw the lockers painted in pride colors at a public highschool.
Sending kids to a public school for the majority of their time (vs. time spent with family) is tantamount to child neglect.
There are also horrid things that happen at elite private schools, so perhaps all schooling without deep parental involvement and awareness is child neglect.
@sendpaws@gray@vicious@phnt@p@lanodan judging by the screeching, teachers, teachers' unions , and school corporations also hated it. They were offering flimsy excuses as why parents could not watch or review the curriculum -- often copyright! There are many Randi Weingarten clips from the covid era are... educational.
There has always been efforts to get commercial content into schools -- the "Crest test" of the 1950s (https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adviews/dmbb36813) to Weekly Reader and Scholastic catalogs disguised as "magazines."
At our school, they brought in vending machines (coca cola, etc) to raise funds for athletics (irony much?). In retaliation some people I might have been counted among taught the fine art of "dollaring" the machines by using packing tape to make a dollar that you could yank back out of the machine after it credited you for a drink, and then get an additional fifty cents (the change for the dollar you yanked) for your trouble. This was not simple theft, but intentionally meant to teach the athletics department a lesson by making it cost them money rather than raising money (it worked.)
In the 90s, there all kinds of bizarre deals that branded the schools with various products (often soda) in exclusive arrangements in exchange for donations -- if the student consumption met sales quotas (this was parodied/presented in an episode of the Daria cartoon on MTV -- further irony.)