How did we end up in the timeline where instead of writing a note on a post-it and sticking it to the door one needs A HUNDRED THOUSAND GPUS WHICH COST A TRILLION DOLLARS AND BURN A TERAWATT OF POWER WHILE GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT COPYRIGHT OR CONSENT?

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@gabrielesvelto AI is the most expensive way to do a simple task

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@StaticR and still getting it wrong

[dummzeuch@mastodon.social]

@gabrielesvelto This wasn't about reminding the guy of something but about having "fun" with an AI basically running amok on his computer. He got a reminder that it is not a good idea to have it running without supervision this way. And he got away cheaply. It could have burned his credit card buying on Amazon.

[m_correa_m@fediscience.org]

@gabrielesvelto I've seen people do LLM API calls to do a job a few regexes could do, but this takes the cake

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@gabrielesvelto his post-it was $20.

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@dummzeuch I don't want to kink-shame but this guy's idea of fun is peculiar

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@gabrielesvelto Among other things, it's a pretty good example of how you need to understand how your tools actually work, because there are different tools for different jobs, when a major marketing pitch for "AI" is that it's an all-purpose tool and you don't need to understand how it works.

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@gabrielesvelto In a programming class, I'd written a program that looped over a list multiple times, when I could have written it to just run through the list once. It took a half a second instead of a hundredth of a second. But, that's a few orders of magnitude, and in real-world applications, it adds up.

It's a common beginner's mistake that someone relying on "AI" tools wouldn't notice.

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@gabrielesvelto @StaticR
That's one thing that always puzzles me

Why do people insist on asking ChatGPT to do a simple arithmetic calculation when there's a calculator app on their phone?

https://youtu.be/I3SmXM1eSMg?t=4m45s
At 4:45, after asking to halve a measurement the app just won't shut up.

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@gabrielesvelto This should have been a cronjob.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@gabrielesvelto I’m sorry this really made me laugh so hard
The last part of your post made me hear Gregory Johnstone screaming this as his “monthly referee” persona
But yes, it’s sad and ridiculous that we have come to this… a worse “WALL·E” dystopia 🫩

[kathmandu@stranger.social]

@bornach @gabrielesvelto @StaticR

Yes, this. You can set a simple alarm on a phone, and change the label from 'Alarm' to 'Get Milk'.

It will remind you reliably and for free.

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@gabrielesvelto if you paid $20 for a book to teach you any other way to do that you paid too much but you would have to read the book

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@gabrielesvelto don't worry soon Gemini will do it for free... Since we have already given Google our souls already, not sure what they will take in return for that....