Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)P

pdxfed

@ pdxfed @lemmy.world

Posts
6
Comments
485
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock

    Jump

  • Caught me completely by obvious

  • What are your AI use cases?

    Jump

  • Customer support tier .5

    It can be hella great for finding what you need on a big website that is poorly organized, laid out, or just enormous in content. I could see it being incredible for things like irs.gov, your healthcare providers website, etc. in getting the requested content in user hands without them having to familiarize themselves with constantly changing layouts, pages, branding, etc.

    To go back to the IRS example, there are websites in the last 5 years that started to have better content library search functionality, but I guess for me having AI able to contextualize the request and then get you what you want specifically would be incredible. "Tax rule for x kind of business in y situation for 2024"---that shit takes hours if you're pretty competent sometimes, and current websites might just say "here is the 2024 tax code PLOP" or "here is an answer that doesn't apply to your situation" etc. "tomato growing tips for zone 3a during drought" on a gardening site, etc.

    I'm in HR so benefits are a big one...the absolute mountain of content, even if you understand it, even experts can't have perfect recall and quick, easy answers through a mountain of text seems like an area AI could deliver real value.

    That said, companies using AI as an excuse to them eliminate support jobs because customers "have AI" are greedy dipshits as AI and LLMs are a risk at best and outside of a narrow library and intense testing are going to always be more work for the company as you not only have to fix the wrong answer situations but also get the right answer the old fashioned way. You still need humans and hopefully AI can make their work more interesting, nuanced and fulfilling.

  • Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing

    Jump

  • "Resistance Fingerprinting detected in Produce."

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • More like ape-ex amirite

  • Apple opens its biggest research lab outside the US in China

    Jump

  • But tiktok is what we should be focusing on...

  • Bankruptcy Took Down the Redbox Machine. If Only Someone Could Take Them Away.

    Jump

  • This should have been settled in bankruptcy court as part of business wind down before anyone got a penny of assets divided proceeds. When it's not then another legal battle is required to get the company to do what it should have. Such a waste of time and needless burden for society. Unfortunately, regulatory capture and representative funding capture is almost total so no laws will be passed to change it.

  • Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm To Cut 14,000 Manager Positions By 2025, Says Report

    Jump

  • 3rd type- sees Real wages falling each year, has college debt or car debt or credit card debt or had to buy a new furnace on an installment plan or God forbid wants to take a vacation or or or

    Anyway, this person has to try keep climbing or they will lose their car/ be kicked out of their apartment, nothing in society will support them as they "failed at their job and/or must be lazy", etc.

    There truly are some doofuses at every level of organization, the closer to the top people more often are playing the cruel game to win, but middle management are hardly the game theory types--they wouldn't have accepted their job if they were that strategic as there is no winning.

    So depressing to see working class folks going after other working class folks(someone with supervisor or manager or director in their title) because they "have it better"...the latter almost exclusively are trapped in a different fucked up system.

  • Removed

    TIL the average American is dumber than the average human

    Jump

  • Oh look, all the stupid Africans. Jesus, how could anyone not question this?

    I mashed the down arrow because it's probably more strongly correlated with GDPPPP or access to free, high quality education than an inherent measure of intelligence. Crappy correlations to pseudomeasurements and concepts with racist results? What is this, the SATs?

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

    Jump

  • Here's the VP of Reddit's community cited in the article, Laura Nestler, preaching super engagement from a platforms most fanatical users to power content for the 90%.

    She suggests, intrinsic motivators such as "autonomy".

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUMW6Ovf6o

    She was at Yelp prior, which if you want to look at a steaming pile of a wasted company, man give reddit 5-10 years.

  • TIL Obama from ages 6 to 10 lived in Indonesia and can speak Indonesian.

    Jump

  • You're saying he's a synthetic fiber and not the traditional cotton plain weave? The textile industry will be shocked!

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • We're 5 years from someone proposing "smartwall displays" where the entire wall is your display. No more messy cables or creaky mounting brackets. They'll, of course also have removed the on/off button and you won't get to control the volume, but just think of the stimulation!

    Fahrenheit 451's technology just around the corner of the next shitty planned community coming soon near you.

  • Does anyone actually use the windows key on their keyboard as intended by the OS?

    Jump

  • Win+ca+enter = calculator

  • What are the best fictional books you’ve ever read?

    Jump
  • Deleted

    What was your last refund? Why did you get your last refund?

    Jump

  • That's actually part of the shipping package for new Windows boxes due to Recall and all the other shit they want to stuff in there.

  • What hip-hop song do you think demonstrates the most impressive artistic talent and why? (pls provide link)

    Jump

  • Changes from 2Pac.

    It's the Black "imagine" by Lennon, philosophically, but also approaches the cognitive dissonance of what is wrong in the world from raw, honest and depressingly still accurate lyrics 30 years on. For me, this is a far braver and more interesting song than Imagine--and Imagine is a classic. It doesn't let listeners off the hook and even calls them out as part of the problems.

    Great rhythm, beautiful melody contrast and creatively selected issues addressed.

  • What hip-hop song do you think demonstrates the most impressive artistic talent and why? (pls provide link)

    Jump

  • Ha, just responded to "coming thru" recommendation above and then saw yours!

  • What hip-hop song do you think demonstrates the most impressive artistic talent and why? (pls provide link)

    Jump

  • Coming thru is one of my favs. Also dig "Day at the races" from J5 has a similar upbeat rhythm, narrative with theme, and of course flow.

  • Whats an unethical or dangerous experiment that you would like to see performed or perform (if it werent for the ethics/danger)

    Jump

  • Parts of it could be done, but it would always stop at "the subject is uncomfortable", which is the whole point of why changing someone's mind against delusions, illusions and propaganda is hard. They don't want to, so without some treatment experiments that would certainly not meet today's medical and/or psychological standards, we wouldn't get an answer to many questions.

    You could make a TV show sure, but all the wrong people would tune in.

  • Whats an unethical or dangerous experiment that you would like to see performed or perform (if it werent for the ethics/danger)

    Jump

  • A bit contemporary, but I'd like to have studied what it takes to break someone of illusions that were fed and forced on them externally, e.g. schooling, TV, social media and other forms of cultural imprinting and propaganda.

    We've all had that "what would it take to get this person to realize how far off base they are?" question, it would be fascinating, in a no-holds barred experiment testing various solutions and combinations to find out which is the most effective.

    E.g. someone believes climate change isn't real because (x,y,z irrelevant). No amount of written evidence is effective to people who don't understand the scientific method, so would it be videos, traveling to acutely affected places, having polar bears removed from all zoos, baseball bats on their knuckles when they make a logical fallacy?

    It would be interesting to then categorize the types of delusions or illusions and then prescribe treatment based on these results.