Reese Witherspoon told fans to learn A.I., authors are slamming her

Yup. Books are a moneymaking product to her. And she was able to sell that production company

Ummm I thought book clubs were about the joy of reading and celebrating writers

I have a lot of menial stuff I do at my job. If I can automate it out with AI and focus on the cooler/high impact stuff, I will.

Agreed. If AI disappeared tomorrow, these ppl would stop complaining about data centers. What they hate is job replacement. If they cared about the environment, we would have raised hell long ago. What I think is really telling is when ppl use this argument. It's so obviously a talking point they are just repeating

What a stupid response lol!

First, I can’t speak to Gemini but Copilot sucks. I know it’s a reskinned ChatGPT but I swear it’s substantially slower and worse. Second, try telling it what you want! Its default might not be linking or citing sources, so ask it to. You have to treat it like a not very bright assistant; things that are obvious to you, like “don’t extrapolate beyond what you can directly verify,” are not obvious to it.

It’s always odd that people call it a search engine as a pejorative when search engines fundamentally changed how modern society functions.

Pretty much.

It's a preprocessed search engine. It's an autocorrect that has already read all the search results so it can potentially answer your question in context with the exact way you asked it. Though it can also just confidently lie like the listnookors it was trained on.

You aren’t supposed to blindly trust everything it gives you. The point is that it gives you the framework. Instead of spending 4 hours making a monthly budget, the AI makes it in 10 minutes and you spend 20 minutes checking. See how that saves 3.5 hours?

1. All of the models have free tiers, and I believe things like google’s “AI mode” are 100% free. 2. LLMs are not good at certain things such as counting characters (unless the model can be told to use a tool to do it, in which case it will be better than a human) because they are primarily designed right now to not work at the character level, but only higher order groupings like words, phrases, sentences, etc.

AI gives you an intuitive understanding of a topic, even if you write a low effort, vague, unorganized prompt. Now your job shifts from "understanding amorphous topic X" to "verifying precise claim Y". Also, flat earthers say scientists get brainwashed in school by blindly accepting everything they are taught. If you disagree with that statement, then you already know it's possible to receive valuable information from AI without blindly trusting it, because you are a Being capable of independent logic and reasoning.

In addition to what the others have brought up, I'll offer this: Google Maps used to give plenty of fucked up directions early on. E.g. it's told me to do things like make a U-turn on a highway in a tunnel where directions of travel are separated by a wall. It got better over time. Do you expect the output of AI to never improve as time goes on?

Me: Can you explain to me how to create a g chord on a guitar? AI: Standard open G major, lowest to highest string: **3–2–0–0–0–3** That means: * low E string: **3rd fret** * A string: **2nd fret** * D string: **open** * G string: **open** * B string: **open** * high E string: **3rd fret** Use this fingering: * **middle finger** on low E, 3rd fret * **index finger** on A, 2nd fret * **ring finger** on high E, 3rd fret That is the easiest starter version. A fuller version a lot of players use is: **3–2–0–0–3–3** Same as above, but also put: * **pinky** on the B string, 3rd fret That version sounds tighter and works better when switching to C, D, or Em in a lot of songs. A few practical points: * Curl your fingers so they come down more on the fingertips. * Make sure the A string finger is not muting the D string. * Press just behind the fret, not directly on top of it. * Pick each string one at a time. If one sounds dead, that finger is usually touching a neighboring string. Quick memory trick: **two fingers on the low side, one or two fingers on the high side, middle strings open.** If you want, I can show you the **easiest way to switch between G, C, D, and Em**, which is where most beginners get stuck. Me: thats ok, im just showing some listnookor that theyre dumb AI: Fair enough. Then the clean version is: A **G major chord** on guitar is usually: **3-2-0-0-0-3** or **3-2-0-0-3-3** From the lowest string to the highest. If they still do not get it, they are arguing with reality, not you.

What skills?

AI is bad. And they’re all doing that.

It actually does mean it is bad.

It's more like telling women in the early 00's to buy a .com webpage. Half of AI datacenters have now been cancelled. The costs of producing a reply don't match the amount people are willing to pay for generating this reply, which is why current AI businesses are running at a massive loss. And all of the recent AI models have not shown enough improvement over the existing ones to keep having hope that this will change. Meaning we're in for a massive price hike that no one really will be able to afford. Consumer AIs will go out of business, government might keep a private model for state use, and that's it.

I think part of the outrage is people who think she should instead openly resist the ruling class. I think people are optimistic (whether they should be or not) that there's a moment to reverse AI here so I think they feel like that betrays that moment, or works for the ruling class in this moment.

Why not? No company is too big to have projects fail; Zuckerberg's metaverse disaster proved that.

Ah yes, I suppose every media publication and *Sam Altman himself* are all lying about the dystopian direction that AI is going.

Well if the “business world” said so it must be good! Bring on the data centers.