Illusion — Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis (which it is facilitating), get rid of poverty (on which it is heavily relying), and unleash the full potential of human creativity (which it is undermining)?

  • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m not sure how that’s a useful thing besides convincing people to spend money on something they done need? Like, you either need a product at the grocery store or you don’t. I don’t need corpo bullshit ad bots to beg me to buy shit.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t think I explained it well.

      I shop at 4, maybe 5, different grocery stores. Some products I have preferences whereas others I don’t.

      For example, say this is my grocery list for the week:

      • grapes (never buy at Walmart)
      • composition notebook
      • ground turkey (only buy at Wegmans, unless there’s a sale)
      • oat milk
      • chocolate chips
      • eggs

      I want an AI to scrape every grocery store’s weekly ad or their website along with any coupons that are available, and determine the best price and, based on patterns of sales, what I should wait on and what time of day I should shop.

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        4 months ago

        I think you explained it fine, it just doesn’t make sense to people who only go to the same place.

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          4 months ago

          It doesn’t make sense to me and I’ve got three grocery stores and a walmart within miles of me.

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            4 months ago

            Do you regularly use their ads to compare prices and select what to buy at each one, or generally stick to one place with a few trips to another one?

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              4 months ago

              I shop for convenience and brands I prefer. One store has some items I prefer over the others. That’s to say I shop like a normal person.

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                4 months ago

                Normal based on what? The ads exist because plenty of normal people use them to decide where to buy things or certain items. If they didn’t bring people in the stores wouldn’t bother.

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        4 months ago

        I got what you were saying, it’s just not something I can imagine ever caring that much about. Either I need a notebook or I don’t. I’m out of grapes and want some or I don’t. I don’t need a shoddy piece of software to tell me any of those things. And attempting to micro optimize for sale events? Like, this just isn’t a sensible way to live your life.

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          4 months ago

          You have failed to understand it AGAIN. Good job failing.

          It does NOT tell you what the list is. Period. Stop assuming it will advertise to you. You are repeatedly describing how you have FAILED to understand what it’d even be attempting…

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            4 months ago

            Nobody said it made the list for you. The idea was moronic that it would tell you when to get these things. Which is idiotic because YOU ALREADY NEED IT.

            If you relied on shitty software less your reading comprehension would be better.