Definitely! I have an MX5 (miata), and the camaraderie between strangers is great. Majority of people will wave to each other as they drive past and I often get stopped for a chat in petrol stations etc. It’s one of the reasons I would really hate to get rid of the car because it’s just an extra dose of fun compared to everything else I have owned.
I suppose these things have to be opt-out because if they were opt-in then literally nobody would do it. Which is quite telling really isn’t it lol
Maybe? But to give an example of how I think it’s been pretty cool, is summarising my Dungeons & Dragons session notes, and being available to answer questions, or spin up ideas on the fly. I can take horrible and inconsistent notes with holes in them, but an LLM straightens them all out into any format I need. If I need a small piece of world building and ran out of time I can get it to spit a few ideas at me. Often generic ideas and tropes are actually what I am after. If I forgot something that happened 6 months ago I can just…ask it. It can pull up stuff I noted offhand and totally forgot about no problem. This sort of use where it’s like an admin assistant, and being inaccurate is totally unimportant, it’s a good tool.
Maybe that’s a really niche example but it’s one of the few cases where I can see long term use with zero downsides.
Ultimately it’s powerful at consolidating large volumes of information and allowing the user to probe at that information. As long as the use case can tolerate inaccuracies and hallucinations then it’s fine.
For sure, it’s amazing for some things. But it also appears to do more than you think it does until you become familiar with it. I think everyone new to using AI should quiz it on topics they are knowledgeable in, to realise how much shit it makes up.
Also yeah I’m specifically talking about LLMs because I think that’s 95%+ of AI usage right now in volume.
Once you use AI enough you start to peer behind the curtain and see how it’s all just a magic trick and not actually magic like it seems to begin with. So yeah I think its unsurprising people would come to this conclusion.
Not to blame video games but genuinely having never even held a real gun I could definitely work out how to operate one from the thousands of hours I have interacted with them digitally lol. They ultimately are designed ground up to be user friendly and simple. Yes I would be a terrible aim etc but still not the point, an idiot can still cause chaos.
I noticed in my local supermarket in the UK they started wearing cameras too it’s really weird. I’m really not sure what their goal is - it will never help shoplifting as much as static cameras, and seems a lot of effort to safeguard against abusive customers.
Maybe she should buy twitter and ban the guy, or is this the wrong billionaire I am thinking of?
If he was destroying it for the good of humanity he would have to somehow destroy the concept of it rather than a single platform.
Probably best spending 40 billion on education in the harm social media can do lol.
I really do think he’s just delusional. I won’t call him an idiot because there is clearly intelligence and talent in his head, but he’s gone off the rails in some capacity whether it’s mental health issues or power crazed or who knows.
Yep, in the UK it’s part of the theory test, you have to know how and when to check air and fluid levels in order to get a licence.
Where are you from where those things are not part of a driving test?
In some ways maybe but the fact there is enough space for everyone and people don’t have to fight for it kinda defeats the most interesting aspects of Place if you ask me.
So think of it like a ‘feature’ of Instagram then. You can enable the feature or you can leave it disabled but either way its sharing user data and login information etc.
Its Meta’s (Facebook) attempt at Twitter. Given how much Twitter is shitting the bed as well as Metas ability to push a new platform via their other channels, it has exploded overnight gaining millions of users almost instantly.
Its ok we get Boost, soon hopefully
For me personally it still needs to be far bigger though. On Reddit literally every bite of news was posted and discussed for many of the hobbies I have, large or niche. Yet on Lemmy some of my interests are barely represented nevermind being a reliable source of information and news.
My third party app is still running for me so honestly I’m still using reddit for a lot of browsing. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing though thats my take. I’ll slowly move here if it grows and if not well, we will see.
I like the content but I’m struggling to really dive in regularly without better app support. Hoping Boost for Lemmy gets released before long and that will give a more refined experience.
Same, a lot of people acting like you have to use one or the other its just silly. Clearly lemmy isn’t big enough to contain all of the niche news and updates from various communities yet and that’s fine. As lemmy hopefully grows then I’ll shift over here but in the meantime reddit is still better for content, anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves lol.
I respect your opinion, but you’re a wrong’un