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Plants, maybe. Fungi, hell no.

AI + fungi = you die

I don't actually know if it's considered a deepfake when it's just a voice; but I've been using the hell out of Speechify, which basically deepfakes voices and pairs them with a text input.

...so... nursing school, we have an absolute fuck-ton of reading assignments. Staring at a page of text makes my brain melt, but thankfully nowadays everything's digital, so I can copy entire chapters at a time, and paste them into Speechify. Now suddenly I have Snoop-dogg giving me a lecture on how to manage a patient as they're coming out of general anesthesia. Gets me through the reading fucking fast, and it retains so, SO much better than just trying to cram a bunch of flavorless text.

The blanket term "AI" has set us back quite a lot I think.

The plant thing and the deepfakes/search engines/chatbots are two entirely different types of machine learning algorithm. One focussed on distinguishing between things, the other focussed on generating stuff.

But "AI" is the marketable term, and the only one most people know. And so here we are.

The difference is that plant identification is a classification problem, not an LLM.

I am a physicist. I am good at math, okay at programming, and not the best at using programming to accomplish the math. Using AI to help turn the math in my brain into functional code is a godsend in terms of speed, as it will usually save me a ton of time even if the code it returns isn't 100% correct on the first attempt. I can usually take it the rest of the way after the basis is created. It is also great when used to check spelling/punctuation/grammar (so using it like the glorified spellcheck it is) and formatting markup languages like LaTeX.

I just wish everyone would use it to make their lives easier, not make other people's lives harder, which seems to be the way it is heading.

upscaling of old media is pretty cool too

I've had to literally perform a Google search to find a customer support phone number before. Because the website of the company just kept redirecting me in circles.

Their phone support was just as useless, though.

It was GameStop, by the way.

Using it for plant identification is fine as long as it's an AI designed/trained for plant ID (even then don't use it to decide if you can eat it). Just don't use an LLM for plant ID, or for anything else relating to actual reality. LLMs are only for generating plausible-sounding strings of text, not for facts or accurate info.

We need to strike back with an AI customer which alerts us if we could finally talk or chat again with a human if all automatic solutions are discussed.

hmm guess which one also doesn't suck the energy equivalent of a sizeable town

First time I've seen this meme template. Love it.

Sign up with iNaturalist for plant and animal identification! Citizen science is good for you.

AI search is great.

The more "searchey", and less "generativey", the better. What goes against the direction every provider is going, but it's still great.

I am totally looking forward to AI customer support. The current model of a person reading a scripted response is painful and fucking awful and only rarely leads to a good resolution. I would LOVE an AI support where I could just describe the problem and it gives me answers and it only asks relevant follow up questions. I can't wait.

I've learned that training a model to search your (companies) unmaintainable, unorganized, and continuously growing documentation storage is a godsend.

Not so sure what is so cool about "regularly wrong and dangerous".

It seems, by the comments, that everyone is quite enjoying all that ai has to offer right now. I think if we phrase the question in a good way, everyone is also quite excited to see the development in the future.

Why is it the hype right now to hate ai? Sure, the brands are pushing their half baked products everywhere, but I think this is a part of the journey. Good products can't happen without it.