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  • Bongles@lemmy.ziptoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Question about AI
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    7 days ago

    Before AI, I didn’t even know what an em dash was, it was basically something word (or other software) occasionally corrected my hyphens to. I learned about it because people realized AI uses it all the time and it seemed like a good replacement for all those damn parentheses I always use.

    Didn’t end up using it much though.

  • Bongles@lemmy.ziptoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Expense tracking app/program
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    7 days ago

    I’ve tried these as well, the software is good. My only issue is it’s very manual and the ways to automate importing transaction information i found complicated. That was a little while back now though.

    Importing csv files from my bank accounts also required a bit more effort than I wanted to spend to fix the data.

    It’s unfortunate, I use simplifi from quicken, but they jacked up their price a lot, so I let it cancel, they offered a “deal” to get another year for the old price, and that’s going to end soon. But the importing of my transactions is automatic when I sign in, so I only need to check a few things and then I’ve got all the graphs and whatnot to see where I’m spending.

    I’ll probably let that cancel and try these again, or just not track spending like this.

  • Bongles@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What might a sustainable future with AI look like from a realistic perspective?
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    8 days ago

    To me that thought experiment feels the same as how sci-fi treats the idea.

    If such a machine were not programmed to value living beings, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including living beings, into paperclips or machines that manufacture further paperclips.

    Why would a paperclip machine (that for some reason is AI) be given such power over its environment and no limit to how many paper clips are made that it would decide it needs to turn organic matter into paperclips?

    Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

    That’s always what sci-fi goes with too. Humans might turn it off so destroy all humans. I don’t find it compelling in real life and it falls into what I meant with my first comment.

    (admittedly some of my disagreement falls apart since companies like Microsoft will put “AI” into shit like notepad, i can only imagine what they’d do with real AI)