• Cherries@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Tools at home improvement stores were made to fulfill a specific purpose. GenAI still does not have a purpose it fulfills despite having hundreds of billions of dollars invested, not to mention all the other resources it’s sucking up.

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      17 hours ago

      Nonsense.

      It does a great job of scamming idiots (mainly investors and CEOs) and lining the pockets of the scammers selling it, which is all it’s designed for.

      It’s 100% fulfilling its purpose, it’s just not the purpose they claim to be selling it for.

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      2 days ago

      A pencil is a tool with a pretty wide open purpose within the writing ecosystem. It can be used to document history or remember a phone number or draw a picture.

      You can also stab yourself in the eye with it or plan a murder.

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        Yes, a pencil can do a whole bunch of different. things. GenAI cannot do things. It has no purpose. Pencils were made to write stuff. GenAI was made to ???. It is a technology in search of a problem to address. A niche to fill. It has no purpose as it stands, yet it is supposedly the most important thing ever to the point where the rich and wealthy are losing their minds investing into it on the vague hopes that it’ll do something. They’ve even got our government in on it; the US economy is being dangerously propped up by this industry that doesn’t solve any problems or fulfill any purpose. All the things it does are novelties and even then, it does those things poorly and unreliably.