Re: AI running out of juice

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, Retrograde wrote:

On 2025-03-16, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

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s/AI/blockchain/g

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100% agree.
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By the way if Microsoft suggests one more f*ing CoPilot to me, I'm going
to drive over and punch SatNad in the face.  Everywhere you turn, some
tech monopoly is trying to convince you their AI product is
indispensable. I think they need us to use their crap more than we need
their crap.  They're trying to keep the venture capital funding spigot
flowing.
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I personally don't find any of it useful.  Ebay now allows you to
autopopulate your sale items with AI descriptions.  As a buyer you can
spot the AI slop writing a mile away. I for one refuse to buy from
someone too lazy to write the item description by hand.
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Same here. I have not found AI to make any significant impact on my life. The only perfect use case for it was to generate fluff documentation mandated by law. So for instance, an old customer needed an environmental plan and the AI worked great coming up with a 20 pages document with pure b.s. that no one will ever read.