lol yeah, I am in a position where I can say stuff like that. also he generally tends to listen as long as people actually have a point. but he is super pro AI.

he didn’t really have a response to it. he doesn’t seem to get that not everything needs to be AI. he thinks it will enable people to do more better work, and kind of seems to ignore the possibility that not everybody will get to use it like he does - some people will have to validate the output. he seems to think that it will get to the point where people don’t need to validate the output, it will be like entering numbers into a calculator and the result is trusted (or, at least certified good enough).

do you have one that you recommend?

I told the owner of the company recently that, and I quote, “I will fucking kill myself if my job becomes reviewing AI output”

a coworker invited me to his company GitHub team or something recently, and I tried to join several times. each time, I got stuck with a 10 question test to “verify I was human”. it was not quick. eventually, I had time to actually complete it without timing out.

after completing it correctly twice without success, I gave up

I thought they wanted people to use their products?

this just pushes people away.

that function is just reskinned OCR, though

which I guess you could consider as AI and that it is a similar training data structure? not my area lol

I do also think that AI has some use as a search engine. I haven’t used it much for this purpose at all, but a while back there was a specific type of engineering analysis I needed to do, and I couldn’t remember the exact terms or topics to look up. chat GPT got me into the right area so I could look at the appropriate resources. in that specific scenario, it was better than a standard search engine

Of course once I found the materials I was looking for, I stopped using the chat bot and you know use those materials

that’s how I understand it as well. but I’m not familiar with using wishlists or Amazon anymore so I can’t be sure that’s what it means

but, uh, yeah this seems fine?

they’re adding functionality by allowing wishlists to use third party sold items. you don’t have to use third party sellers, just don’t put those on your list

as long as this is clearly explained and identifiable on product pages, and it can’t change without you knowing about it and having time to respond, this seems fine?

no problem, I’ll just use apps from outside of the App Store, right?

honestly, in today’s world and in this context, it’s often the same thing

if you’re ignorant of what these smart devices are doing in [current year], you’re almost definitely stupid for choosing to be ignorant of it. it’s been a whole decade of this stuff now. you’ve been exposed to it, and you’ve made the chose to remain ignorant.

yeah I sat there for a few seconds trying to figure out the relevance

turns out, it wasn’t relevant

instant loss of attention and judging of their character

I was almost gonna say something about killing nazis, but…

nah, not as american

right, but you do have to approach it. I think the question is more “how are people not being tracked from blocks away”

how the fuck is this weird ass website so much more pleasant to scroll through than any average site nowadays