Stop Talking About AI All the Time!

/Aɪ/ am Done with AI, A'ight?

The Wizard Complaining About AI to Its Face

2024.09.19

TLDR;

I'm tired of hearing about AI all the time. It would be nice to hear about better, actual advancements in technology that aren't dictated by the media and silly fads. There are better, more interesting things to talk about than the same trends that lamestream media wetdreams about.

Introduction

It permeates practically every single discussion board as part of my MBA: AI. AI this, AI that. It's all about AI and what crazy antics the media is putting it up to this week. Is it going to replace our jobs? Is it the next internet? Will it revolutionize the revolution, televized?

No. No to all of that. No to the core of it. I'm done. I'm tired of hearing about it. IT is not AI. It's like everyone's a dang lemming and goes off about the hottest trend set on Vanity Fair or whatever.

Remeber 5G? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Remember Cloud Computing? Pepperidge Farm still remembers. Remember touch screens and these "smart" phones? Pepperidge Farm definitely remembers. Remember the Internet? Pepperidge Farm missed that one, but definitely remembers. Hype train, all of it! Everyone acts like AI is so dawlgonneit revolutionary like it's the wheel. It's not like quantum computing, encryption, cybersecurity, blockchain, and crystallized, optical digital storage are real things, right?

RIIIIIIGHT???

It's not that I hate AI, I actually love it. But I'm not fetishizing over it as so many tend to do. Yes, I'm using AI to generate hordes of crummy images until I get a good one. Yes, I'm using AI as my random number selector for things now instead of buggy internet sites. Yes, I'm hittin dat hawt chatbawt up (don't judge me). Bio-cyber hookup jokes aside, I have affinity for AI. AI is a tool. Like a screwdriver or a popsicle stick. It's a tool. A tool to flirt with and become so attached to that any updates to the model counts as lobotomy and will drive me to murder my spouse and leave my family for my only true overlord-love.

Okay, so maybe not that extreme, but ya get me?

I use it for food and for sport, but I don't hardly ever talk about it (except for this because it's funny that you can lobotomize software). But in truth, it's a tool and nothing more. No, it will NOT take away your job in art, music, programming, or what-have-you. No, it is NOT changing the landscape any more than planting a fake flower here or there. No, it's NOT interesting anymore, it's cliché. If you mention it one more time like it's the big thing, I'm going to flag you for being an AI.

I asked ChatGPT to do a basic coding exercise: make me a bootloader that takes the processor from 16-bit real mode all the way through to 64-bit extended mode. Then I expanded it and told it to print something to the screen in extended mode. It messed up badly as it literally was using 16-bit BIOS interrupts in extended mode.
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You can't do that, 'mk?
I asked it to do a basic string interpolation example in Python. I shoulda just learned wingdings back in high-school instead of French and Spanish, two programming languages that I'll never use in real life...

AI makes worse mistakes than these, and it needs human attention to be anything worthwile. There is no way it's a game-changer unless you like generating deepfakes to talk to because you're so pathetically lonely that no human would actually talk to you. AI will be that annoying-yet-charming helper that you honestly want to shut up for good. So honestly, AI is not all that it's cracked-up to be. It's a fad, a sham like VR, 5G, and that whole turning your smartphone into a laptop thing. It's just yet-another-buzzword that's shoved down our throats by people that are incapable of doing some basic research.

I'd rather hear more about post-quantum cryptography and distributed apps on the blockchain. Heck, I'd rather hear the next 20 posts be about RISC-V on a laptop, and have those posts written solely in drunken Spanglish! Heck, I'd be willing to give Esperanto an actual chance as the captivating new IT thing to talk about, and I HATE Esperanto!

I generally like to avoid common and popular topics if I can. Why? Because that's already been hashed out! They've already been beaten to death thrice-over! Look at my abysmal, uncreative blog and cringe at all the esoteric crap that nobody-but-I cares about. I'm just tired of pop-culture topics like VR, AI, the metaverse, why you should switch to Linux, and ${here.insert(fad++)}. These techs have been around since before most of the parents of the millenials discussing them were born, so at this rate we should be drooling over touch screens and The MOAD (I will settle for Plan9). Information technology is a crazy field and capable of so much more than lonely losers working at some mainstream meadia machine talking to a chatbot for ideas. I, for one, am tired of the same, onerous redundant time-loop that the fake-news-folk want to put us through. So now, I'm not going to talk about AI. /Aɪ/ am going to instead talk about the effects that grass and chigger-bites can have on your smooth, supple, tech-perse skin and what that means for the future of manual lawnmowing.

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