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A radical idea - stop talking about things that don't exist like they do (tante.cc)
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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

VR is such an incredible thing for me because I somehow avoided any and all hype around it, then got to play around with some oculus thing at a conference and play Beat Saber and was like wow, this is really cool

And then you start reading people compare AI hype to VR hype and I'm just sitting there being like wait, was this ever supposed to be more than a Beat Saber platform? What did they claim it would do? Oh no.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if AI was only ever meant to be the Akinator?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The ultimate purpose of AI was always to tell me what digit this is, anything else is just grift

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

that's obviously a b that had a phenomenal night out, and just found itself greeting the day from a garden somewhere