Is America headed for an age of dumb phones?
Deleted
Permanently Deleted
Jump
We're not talking about an AI running a nuclear reactor, this article is about AI assistants on a personal phone. 0.001% failure rates for apps on your phone isn't that insane, and generally the only consequence of those failures would be you need to try a slightly different query. Tools like Alexa or Siri mishear user commands probably more than 0.001% of the time, and yet those tools have absolutely caught on for a significant amount of people.
The issue is that the failure rate of AI is high enough that you have to vet the outputs which typically requires about as much work as doing whatever you wanted the AI to do yourself, and using AI for creative things like art or videos is a fun novelty, but isn't something that you're doing regularly and so your phone trying to promote apps that you only want to use once in a blue moon is annoying. If AI were actually so useful you could query it with anything and 99.999% of the time get back exactly what you wanted, AI would absolutely become much more useful.
Thanks you Trump for finally eliminating US soft power. Once no nation sees any benefits in close relationships with the US and actively hates it, the US will truly be a wealthier and more powerful super power than ever before!
(I'm being sarcastic, jfc this is so stupid and cruel)
Deleted
Permanently Deleted
Jump
Honestly that's totally fair and I can see how an AI therapist could help more than a human one. I personally have wanted to have a regular therapist for a number of years, and I had one that really helped me when I was first figuring out I'm trans, but then I moved and now whenever I try to look for therapists, it feels like I can't find anyone that gives me those right mix of "LGBT literate", "(Polish) immigrant literate", "autism and ADHD literate" and on top of those, being able to figure out if I can vibe with them AND won't "queer broken arm syndrome" me, and I've basically given up looking. A lot of my progress in mental health development lately have been just really reflecting about the ways of thinking I'm stuck in that maybe are hindering me, but that's largely worked for me because (despite the state of the world) I've had a period of good stability and a wife to bounce thoughts off of.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I can definitely relate to those kinds of struggles and understand how having a tool that just gives you other perspectives generated from a composition of average people's posts would be useful unto itself! I guess I get really knee jerk about AI because I've seen so many projects that do treat the AI tools we have now as "actual literal synthetic sentient intelligence or something damn close" when it's nowhere near that. Your use of it is actually a perfect understanding of what it does now, what it can give you, and how to make use of it, and I should be more careful in how I talk about AI when there are people who do gain genuine use from it.
Thank you again for sharing your perspective!
Deleted
Permanently Deleted
Jump
Deleted
Permanently Deleted
Jump
The clergy and worshippers said they enjoyed it, but agreed it wouldn’t replace services led by humans anytime soon.
“It was pretty entertaining and fun, but it didn’t feel like a Mass or a service. … It felt distant. I didn’t feel like they were talking to me,” Taru Nieminen told The Associated Press.
The Rev. Kari Kanala, the vicar at St. Paul’s, echoed her sentiment.
“The warmth of the people is what people need,” he said.
I mean, isn't that basically how every AI project goes? "It's a fun novelty, but actually expecting anything deeper from it always gives you a hollow experience"? Maybe we don't need to try doing everything with AI, maybe we can just assume it'll be the case and move on
It's wild how "take seriously" just means "stop pretending that his ramblings are seventh dimensional chess". Sometimes, the emperor really is just wearing no clothes!
I read his statements as attempts to make it clear he's not the unreasonable "everyone must give Ukraine all the aid we want with no compensation allowed" figure that conservatives in the US now want to paint him as. It makes it clear that Trump isn't upset that Zelenskyy isn't open to negotiating compensation for the US, he's just trying to find an excuse to pivot US foreign policy towards Russia's goals, and Zelenskyy meanwhile is even willing to discuss something as absurd as signing away Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
I think it's a good idea for him to call Trump's bluff. If he railed hard against the deal, it'd become another partisan issue, whether relations with Ukraine broke because of Trump or Zelenskyy being a hardliner. That's why they've been trying to find any excuse at all to say Zelenskyy was somehow rude to Trump while he was sitting there listening to Trump spit out Russian propaganda. Conservatives need some narrative that the US pivot to Russian foreign policy is Ukraine's fault, and Zelenskyy is denying them that.
Removed Deleted
Permanently Deleted
Jump
I'm willing to bet there are boys that roleplay as humans on mastodon. While we lack concrete data, humans are a fairly popular race in roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons. If there are at least 10 young men on Mastodon that play Dungeons and Dragons, there's a very good chance at least one role plays as a human character.
Also even if something very specific that you want isn't available outside of Amazon, that's all the more reason to definitely not buy it and message the manufacturer/seller and let them know why you're not buying it. Boycotts will sometimes mean not buying something you really want to buy, that's working as designed.
I don't think I've really seen any literature about web3 that wasn't a crypto scam in a trench coat. Do you have any links or info about the original goals of web3?
Are you under the impression PiS was normally a sane functional party before 2016 or something? Because I can strongly assure you this is more or less normal for them. Ever since the Smoleńsk plane crash in 2010, they've pretty consistently been insane and accusing KO (and the various precursor parties) of being agents of the global gay/Jewish/German/Russian conspiracy against Poland.
And I'm not against people having this recognition! I'm just saying, it's hypocritical to tell Canadians we can't see the US as an enemy nation if it acts that way, but it's okay for urbanite Americans to see rural Americans as their enemy. Either it's divide and conquer in both cases or it's recognizing political reality in both.
You missed my point - if you're saying Canadians recognizing the present reality that the US is an enemy nation of Canada is divide and conquer, I don't see how that doesn't apply to how you talk about urban/rural divides. Either acknowledging the political reality of a situation is divide and conquer or it's not.
You're complaining that Canadians seeing the US as an enemy nation is divide and conquer, but this screed against the rural peoples of your own country is just dandy???
The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media
Wow, really wild how the guy that doesn't know what SQL is, is somehow also bad at database permissioning.
The lower bound on what age a person has to be before being sexually attracted to them doesn't feel creepy goes up as you age, well past 18-20 by the time you're in your 30s. However, this lower bound does eventually slow or stop, and finding a 40 year old attractive by the time you're 60 doesn't feel nearly as weird.
So I'd imagine it's because basically anyone of any age can find a 40+ year old woman attractive without feeling like a creep, whereas most people start aging out of finding 18-20 year olds attractive by the time they're in their 30s.
The churches housing undocumented migrants and fighting to give them sanctuary aren't the megachurches you're alluding to. The church I belonged to while living in the US was housing an undocumented family, and the finances of the church were open to all members so I can assure you we weren't getting any income for doing it.
They can and do catch every post. That's how centralized platforms work; their logging platforms literally do see every single thing that's posted, have alerting set up to monitor for trends in case something illegal or offensive to billionaires is trending.
They use algorithms and language models to draw summaries about trending posts, what they're about and why they're trending, and can make realtime adjustments to their algorithms to deprioritize posts and accounts they don't want to see trendIng anymore. They can analyze text, video, images, and audio in real time, and determine what the post is about, even if the title of the post is something intentionally misleading, and apply algorithms accordingly. That's literally why they invested so much in AI moderation tools and image generation and analysis.
I think in general the American protest movement is really behind on ideas for what to do when the government doesn't want to listen. I've been to tons of "stand around and wave signs until change happens" protests, for BLM, migrants, LGBT people, healthcare, strike support, the only time the protest ever made any impact was when the march was in support of a strike.
Blocking up streets with protest works when it's being done to amplify the impact of a work stoppage, but just waving signs around on their own doesn't do anything, especially when the people you're protesting don't particularly want to placate the protestors.
And like, I get that "build a nationwide labor movement that can go on a general strike" as a step one for a protest is an impossible tall order, but we gotta face facts that just having a lot of people come out and wave signs around alone doesn't do anything, especially when the target of the protest really doesn't care that it's being protested.
I'm all for reexamining how we use our time and I'm definitely trying to get myself off always looking St my phone when I'm not doing anything.
But why does that mean buying a new product? You can change your behavior by just not looking at those things. And when you do legitimately need to have your phone to check something, you can develop the discipline to do that one thing and then put it away. Just seems like the obvious move.