Yeah Proton continuing to pooch it

So far as I can tell there are a few groups that make up its “popularity”

Ironically the “anti-AI” crowd, for lack of a more at-hand description mention AI a lot because it’s a form of hype many experienced technology-versed people have seen many times before and at such a scale as to be astounding. Also because it doesn’t seem to work very well at all. And because everyone is being forced to use it and “forced” to like it.

Then there’s the gung-ho “newbies” (who may in fact have more than a decade of experience) who just think it’s neat. They love the intricacy of it and the wide-open futuristic vistas and they like talking about what it can or might be able to do some day. This group will become the former group in another decade or so.

Then there’s the propaganda - any news article, tweet, comment or what have you that in some way shape or form is being put in front of many people for the purposes of keeping AI discussion happening. Much of this is “free press” because next to lawyers, journalists are least likely to understand technology, and their directives from on high are to promote this thing - whatever it is.

Then there’s data science researchers who are ostensibly pulling new insights out of a sea of hallucinations and making interesting new connections because of it. It happens.

I think that’s more or less it. There’s also the general non-technology group of people who are told things about it and have not used it, nor will they probably ever.

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Yep. It’s not even very good at the barest minimum function anyone can find for it after years of blasting everyone with propaganda to use it. And could be replaced with a couple of lines.

Truly a bizarre chapter in technology.

Yeah. “How Every Business Is Screwing Itself By Requiring What It Doesn’t Understand”

Given the unprecedented amount of sheer capital rolling into this like an ocean falling down from space, over what, three years now? A subroutine to “make pptx” not existing doesn’t give me a ton of hope that anyone either knows what they’re doing or is able and willing to chop enough of it off to do that.

I hear it in concept, I’m just saying - it seems like such low hanging fruit it’s almost damning that it doesn’t exist.

Depending on the ask, yes. Summarize this document - usually pretty correct, if verbose and disgustingly bland like eating paste. But then it’ll say “Do you want me to make this into a powerpoint?” and you go - sure, why not - and (true story) it goes “here it is” and there’s nothing there.

And you say “uh, there’s nothing there” and it goes “oh! Sorry. Here it is” and it links to a pdf. And you say “that’s not a powerpoint” and it goes “oh! sorry you’re right. Here.” and it links to a powerpoint that’s so sparse it seems like it assembled itself from the random background radiation of the universe - and it doesn’t even say what the summary said. It’s something sort of like it but worse somehow.

And that experience never changes. That’s essentially all any AI interaction will ever be.

I use them for cursory web searches it would take me slightly longer to do directly.

spellings of words, name of the character from that movie, whatever ephemera I want at the moment that no one ever should really give two shits about.

Actual questions or actual functions? lol no. And the second they ask me to pay for it - it’s gone.

That’s why you shouldn’t use it.

According to the Chinese Facebook group PCDIY! . . .

In a Facebook post, group admin Rose Lee said that the issue has been identified and additionally verified by Phison engineers, thereby giving credibility to the claims.

Ah yes the notably stringent testing and analysis of . . . a Chinese Facebook group

Er, no us Idiot Americans that supposedly elected a demented rapist who explicitly said he would set himself up as a dictator.

The UK has been doing some seriously batshit things lately. Obviously we’re not ones to talk but - yeah. It’s sad.

Silence! The great Microsoft has decreed that from this day forward your documents belong to them! No dissension!

Proceed to the payment portal to pay your offerings immediately. Only those worthy enough to pay for the Extra^TM and Premium^TM tiers will be allowed to use the File menu.

Where do you think Google learned it?

Ah looking for the kid who can be best huh.

I thought he loved Three Percenters

. . . What?

Won’t somebody think of the zuck?!

Exactly.

Okay, now do religion.

I asked that before it started.

Here we are.