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ELI5 why is everyone boot licking AI? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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I genuinely don't get it. Its a fucking trash chatbot that's doing perceivably nothing beyond taking jobs away from people?

Like am I an insane outlier here when it comes to AI and robotics? I cant imagine having a fucking robot in my home, let alone one run by an AI. Nor can I understand why the fuck people want their cars to have it in them with the ability to monitor their biometrics.

Maybe I'm just the outlier here, but I genuinely have no interest in the slop machines or their potential clanker bodies and see no use in them.

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I feel the same about chatbots, but there are many great uses of AI, like in drug discovery or wildfire detection.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The problem is those use cases justify approximately 1% of the money being invested in it. There's no money in fighting wildfires. Drug discovery is profitable, but you'll only need to use such a drug discovery bot once. You can use it to determine which molecules are worthy of testing, but the expensive testing still needs to be done manually.

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