It was coming right at me!

Personally I would ask my aunt and she would be wrong.

I didn’t provide you with an answer to your question?

Yeah I personally use it to analyze public data bases for fraud.

Yeah. I guess we’ll see.

EDIT: you should go on claude’s reddit and look at all of the tools people have built to keep companies and politicians accountable, to renegotiate billing, to improve their lives at the expense of capital. Or you can just go on thinking you’re right!

Since that was a lazy question I decided to be lazy and just copy paste it into Gemini. Enjoy! I have no idea what the point of this is!

Artificial Intelligence isn’t a single technology; it has been a massive umbrella term since the 1950s. Broadly, it means creating computer systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.

If LLMs are just one tiny branch on the tree, here is what the rest of the tree looks like:

Machine Learning (ML): This is the engine driving most modern AI. Instead of a human programmer writing strict "if/then" rules, we feed the computer massive amounts of data and let it figure out the rules itself. This is what powers your Netflix recommendations, credit card fraud detection, and the algorithm deciding what you see on social media.

Computer Vision: Teaching computers to "see" and interpret the visual world. This is how self-driving cars identify stop signs versus pedestrians, how your phone unlocks when it sees your face, and how medical software spots anomalies in X-rays faster than human doctors.

Robotics: The physical application of AI. This isn't just mechanical engineering; it is the software that allows a machine to navigate the unpredictable, physical world. This covers everything from the Roomba vacuuming your floor to automated factory arms and those creepy, dog-like robots from Boston Dynamics.

Natural Language Processing (NLP): This is the branch focused on understanding and generating human language. LLMs live here, but so do older, simpler technologies like spellcheck, Google Translate, and the early versions of Siri or Alexa.

Expert Systems & Rule-Based AI: This is the older, "classic" AI. It relies on a massive database of human knowledge programmed as logical rules. When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world chess champion in 1997, it wasn't using an LLM; it was using raw computational power to calculate millions of possible moves and their outcomes based on strict rules.

Predictive Analytics & Optimization: The invisible math running the modern world. This is AI used by logistics companies to find the absolute most efficient routes for delivery trucks, or by hedge funds to execute high-frequency stock trades based on market micro-fluctuations.

The echo chamber on this site about AI is really quite something. Someone confidently told me Mythos probably didn’t exist and they were upvoted for it and I was downvoted for pointing out the existence of Project Glasswing.

Like, Mythos isn’t real? Fable has been out for like two months lmao

And people who believe the core mechanism in large language models to be AI

What does that mean? Transformers aren’t AI? What? I don’t think you understand this as much as you think you do.

And how much of the doomerism is a campaign to keep the common man from using a revolutionary tool for, well, revolution, by alienating those most likely to do revolutionary things with it?

Once you look at the actual numbers for pollution, water usage, etc it becomes very clear that the issues are vastly overstated. So, why?

How do people work? Are there ones born knowing how to use a hacksaw?

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they’re working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.

This quote is quite funny in this context, because it’s literally what people do with AI. Half of the frontpage of lemmy is AI. The other half is people saying AI is bad with no realization of the irony, because they don’t see good AI. It’s like CGI. Everybody hates CGI, except they don’t. CGI is everywhere. They just hate bad CGI.

Probably gonna get really bad once AI actors start combing the internet for exploits on a larger scale.

More or less the point is: Have you considered that this is a psy op to keep you from using a revolutionary technology, keeping it in the hands of the elite?

What, you think every single company on Earth is dumb? You think that every programmer adopting it is dumb? You guys have no clue. You live in a little bubble where you studiously refuse to use this thing that you judge from three years ago. It would be sad, but it’s honestly just disturbing. We have a moment to use the most frontier models available. And we are going to lose that moment. And y’all, instead of using this technology to fight power, just bitch about it, as though that will do anything. As if your NIMBY nonsense will stop datacenters. As though you aren’t on Lemmy, USING DATACENTERS.

Do you think AI is mostly generating slop? Only like 5% of AI use is private individuals.

The point is that this is not actually an ecological hazard the way people say it is, and that there are much, much more pressing issues if we’re going to fix the environment. Literally all we would have to do to solve global warming is stop eating meat. You see anywhere near as much about that as you do datacenters? Which cause less than one percent of the environmental issues of meat?

Yeah but I don’t think this includes the water from feed, I think this is just the direct water. But I’m not sure. I think it’s like 100x or more water that animal agriculture uses. Similar levels for emissions. I honestly think this is a psyop to get the average person to not use AI as a force multiplier. 95% of AI is corporate, anyway. Abstention does very little besides deprive oneself of a tool that They are using to great effect, against us.

And Chinese AI is rapidly closing the distance. To the point that I can run an AI on my computer that is better than GPT 5 was.

I miss when billionaires were guys like Richard Branson. Now we just have lifeless zombies who are hoarding their money like miserly dragons. At least at one point, while obscene, it was at least, idk, entertaining?

No. These don’t include that. 95% of water usage is from feed, regardless. Livestock also have enormous emissions, vastly dwarfing that of AI.

1 pound of beef equals 650,000 prompts in terms of emissions. Livestock is about 150x more emissions than AI.

Yes. I’m not sure that even includes feed. 100x the water on lawns, 30x on golf courses. 1 lb of consumed beef equals around 650,000 prompts in terms of emissions. You are being lied to and manipulated so that only the elites use this technology!