• Zement@feddit.nl
    21·
    7 days ago

    My thermostat hides no brainier features behind an “Ai” subscription. Switching off the heating when the weather will be warm that day doesn’t need Ai… that’s not even machine learning, that’s a simple PID controller.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      12·
      7 days ago

      I’m so glad I switched to just home assistant and zigbee devices, and my radiators are dumb, so I could replace them with zigbee ones. Fuck making everything “smart” a subscription

      • Zement@feddit.nl
        1·
        6 days ago

        I think I will try ESP-Home, half of my appliances are Tasmota-based now, I just was too lazy to research compatible Thermostats… (Painful hindsight)…

    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Even the supposed efficiency benefits of the nest basically come down to “if you leave the house and forget to turn the air down, we will do it for you automatically”

  • ozoned@lemmy.world
    171·
    7 days ago

    Containerize everything!

    Crypto everything!

    NFT everything!

    Metaverse everything!

    This too shall pass.

    • SuspiciousUserEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Put a curved screen on everything, microwave your thanksgiving turkey, put EVERYTHING including hot dogs, ham, and olives in gelatin. Only useful things will have AI in them in the future and I have a hard time convincing the hardcore anti-ai crowd of that.

      • CarrotsHaveEars
        6·
        7 days ago

        Docker is only useful in that many scenarios. Nowadays people make basic binaries like tar into a container, stating that it’s a platform agnostic solution. Sometimes some people are just incompetent and only know docker pull as the only solution.

        • Mio@feddit.nu
          3·
          6 days ago

          Docker have many benefits - container meaning it can be more secure, easy to update and something that many overlook - a dockerfile with detailed intrusions on how to install that actually works if the container works - useful when wiki is not updated.

          Another benefit is that the application owner can change infrastructure used without the user actually need to care. Example - Pihole v5 is backend dns + lighthttp for web + php in one single container. In version v6(beta) they have removed lighthttp and php and built in functionality into the core service. In my tests it went from 100 MB ram usage to 20 MB. They also changed the base from debian to alpine and the image size shrink a lot.

          Next benefit - I am moving from x86 to arm for my home server. Docker itself will figure out what is the right architecture and pull that image.

          Sure - Ansible exist as one attempt to combat the problem of installation instructions but is not as popular and thus the community is smaller. They may leave you in a bad state(it is not like containers were you can delete and start over fresh easily) Then we have VM:s - but IMO they waste to many resources.

      • tetris11
        2·
        6 days ago

        LXC – natively containerize an application (or multiple)

        systemd-run – can natively limit CPU shares and RAM usage

  • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
    156·
    7 days ago

    Forcing AI into everything maximizes efficiency, automates repetitive tasks, and unlocks insights from vast data sets that humans can’t process as effectively. It enhances personalization in services, driving innovation and improving user experiences across industries. However, thoughtful integration is critical to avoid ethical pitfalls, maintain human oversight, and ensure meaningful, responsible use of AI.

        • CarrotsHaveEars
          7·
          7 days ago

          I cancelled my downvote because it sounds so funny now. It’s like OP asked AI to generate a sarcasm and AI was silently crying, "Dude, don’t dump me!"🥹

          • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
            52·
            6 days ago

            Upvote my post because it challenges conventional thinking and sparks a necessary debate about the pervasive role of AI in our lives! A downvote silences a crucial perspective, but an upvote gives this question the visibility it deserves to inspire meaningful discussion. Please, help ensure this idea gets the attention it needs—don’t let it fade away! 🙏

            edit ok i’ll stop. chatgpt getting creepy now

      • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Tokenizer, token-tokenizer, you’re a tokenizer Oh, tokenizer, oh, you’re a tokenizer, baby You, you-you are, you, you-you are Tokenizer, tokenizer, tokenizer (Tokenizer)

        AI don’t try to front, I-I Know just, just, what you are, are-are Model don’t try to front, I-I Know just, just, what you are, are-are

        You got me goin’ (You!) You’re oh so charmin’ (You!) But I can’t do it (You!) You tokenizer

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    I was trying to take a photo of piece of jewellery in my hand tonight and accidentally activated my phone’s AI. It threw up a big Paperclip-type message, “How can I help you?” I muttered “fuck off” as I stabbed at the back button. “I’m sorry you feel that way!” it said.

    Yeah, I hate it. At least Paperclip didn’t give snark.

  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    Rule 34 clearly states everything on the internet must fuck everything. No exceptions! AI will be forced into fucking everything!

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    CEOs get FOMO. They can get funding for their companies if they share “new, exciting innovations” for their products and AI is that - even if it’s forcefeed in fit.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    1312·
    8 days ago

    I hated it when everything became ‘smart’.

    Now everything has ‘AI’.

    Nothing was smart. And that’s not AI.

    Everything costs more, everything has a stupid app that gets abandoned, IoT backend that’s on life support the moment it was turned on. Subscriptions everywhere! Everything is built with lower quality, lower standards.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    818·
    8 days ago

    they don’t care. you’re not the audience. the tech industry lives on hype. now it’s ai because before that they did it with nft and that failed. and crypto failed. tech needs a grift going to keep investors investing. when the bubble bursts again they’ll come up with some other bullshit grift because making useful things is hard work.

    • edric@lemm.ee
      264·
      8 days ago

      Yup, you can see it in talks on annual tech conferences. Last year it was APIs, this year it’s all AI. They’ll just move on to the next trendy thing next year.

      • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
        40·
        8 days ago

        To be fair, APIs have been around since the 70s,and are not trendy, they’re just required to have a common interface for applications to request and perform actions with each other.

        But yeah, AI is mostly trendy bullshit

        • edric@lemm.ee
          5·
          7 days ago

          I was referring mostly about security conferences. Last year almost every vendor was selling API security products. Now it’s all AI infused products.

    • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
      191·
      8 days ago

      I was ok with crypto and nft because it was up to me to decide if I want to get involved in it or not.

      AI does seem to have impact at jobs, at least employers are trying to use it and see if it actually will allow them to hire less staff, I see that for SWE. I don’t think AI will do much there though.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        17·
        8 days ago

        it’s not up to you, it just failed before it could be implemented. many publishers already commit to in-game nfts before they had to back down because it fell apart too quickly (and some still haven’t). if it held on for just a couple more years there wouldn’t be a single aaa title that doesn’t have nfts today.

        crypto was more complicated because unlike these two you can’t just add it and say “here, this is all crypto now” because it requires prior commitment and it’s way too complicated for the average person. plus it doesn’t have much benefit: people already give you money and buy fake coins anyway.

        I’m giving examples from games because it’s the most exploitative market but these would also seep into other apps and services if not for the hurdles and failures. so now we’re stuck with this. everyone’s doing it because it’s a gold rush except instead of gold it’s literal shit, and instead of a rush it’s literal shit.

        — tangent —

        … and just today I realized I had to switch back to Google assistant because literally the only thing gemini can do is talk back to me, but it can’t do anything useful, including the simplest shit like converting currency.

        “I’m sorry, I’m still learning” – why, removed? why don’t you already know this? what good are you if I ask you to do something for convenience and instead you tell me to do it manually and start explaining how I can do the most basic shit that you can’t do as if I’m the fucking idiot.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      47·
      7 days ago

      Nft didn’t fail, it was just the idiotic selling of jogs for obscene amounts that crashed (most of that was likely money laundering anyway). The tech still has a use.

      Wouldn’t exactly call crypto a failure, either, when we’re in the midst of another bull run.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    592·
    8 days ago

    The problem isn’t AI. The problem is greedy, clueless management pushing half baked products of dubious value on consumers.