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0 pointsteiferer1mo ago0 comments

> Everybody is talking about ai. Everybody is using it.

Please take a moment to step outside the tech bubble. Neither my neighbor (a hair stylist) nor the carpenter fixing up her kitching cabinets are "using" AI. They might get Gemini text when googling something, though they often scroll past it because they often don't trust it. And they get lots of fake videos when scrolling their youtube which increasingly annoys them. The only times they are in touch with AI is when it's forced upon them, and otherwise they are living a pretty good life without any of this.

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bayareapsycho1mo ago

But how do they learn to do their respective task? How is the information disseminated?

The capability is there for robotics to handle these kinds of repetitive tasks from a long term view. They're just statistical processes on a fundamental level.

In general, a lot of this shit that we do can be represented this way. It's just a question of where the incentives are to apply it first and how many economic cycles it'll take to get there.

Also, who controls the training data will matter a lot more. I.e. the sort of "ancestral knowledge" within different enterprises and how they deliver on respective business goals.

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bayareapsycho1mo ago

But how do they learn to do their respective task? How is the information disseminated?

The capability is there for robotics to handle these kinds of repetitive tasks from a long term view. They're just statistical processes on a fundamental level.

In general, a lot of this shit that we do can be represented this way. It's just a question of where the incentives are to apply it first and how many economic cycles it'll take to get there.

Also, who controls the training data will matter a lot more. I.e. the sort of "ancestral knowledge" within different enterprises and how they deliver on respective business goals.

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