My favorite ads are the ones that can easily be solved with minimal human interaction. Apple released an ad for their “rewind” feature where the Apple Watch records everyone’s audio and transcribes it. Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.

my favourite so far is volvo.

"hey ai, any good deals nearby?"

"there's a tv on sale at a nearby electronics store"

"will it fit in the boot?"

"yes"

"nice, plot me a route there"

...like the kind of person exists that impulse buys a tv.

Joe Rogan is their target demographic.

"Hey AI does my plant hate me?"

Pretty much sums up the average AI user.

Hey Gemini, can you email my boss and make it look like I did my job?

Hey Gemini, text my wife

Hey Gemini, can you justify my behaviour to my wife and explain why it’s wrong she’s mad at me?

Hey Gemini, can you fake my resume and make me sound good for every job posting around me?

Here at Meta, we believe AI will build connections between people

*Footage of people connecting by dancing in a field, having a coffee, and generally doing literally anything other than use AI*

I've been seeing ads made by ai and they're even worse. Just saw one on YouTube for glasses "that change colour with just the touch of a finger!" And had ai video of smiling people at the beach tapping their lenses to change the glass colour multiple times, like the glass itself has rgb. Best part is, the fake product didn't even work consistently in the ai video and didn't change colour when they tapped sometimes.

I genuinely don't understand how an ad that's so obviously fake is tricking enough people to be worth spending an entire ad budget on.

AI CEOs in interviews: Our model is so advanced it scares me. It definitely has the ability to cure cancer, but it may also decide to kill all humans.

AI in their advertising: Our model can send emails and create shopping lists.

Only 6.9 killowatt hours to come up with that recommendation. A bargain.

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There’s people still not using adblockers and they get ai generated ads about ai shoved down their throats. Why are you doing this to yourselves?

They're also targeting students with the ads, which tells me that it's encouraging them to cheat.

I use uBlock Origin btw. I only see ads when my someone is watching TV or if I go to random websites in the Tor browser.

It might be they're not trying anymore.

All the common AI tasks that by end-users and small businesses can be done better by local software rather than through compute on a hyperscale platform. The only reason to need big AI is for large-scale projects. They're still selling compute at a huge loss, and their profits are dwarfed by their expenses.

(Some argue the expenses are due to the massive buildout, which is reaching a capability point of diminishing returns. But even the running expenses outweigh the profits, even with government contracts.)

You know, like controlling armies of killer drones, or processing mass surveillance data to find dissidents that are an actual threat. Or doing cyber-ops on a rival nation.

I think that is why the stock market is still investing in big AI, not because we want better slop, but because they want garrison large populations and wreck rival societies.

I've been seeing ChatGPT ads recently that, I think, are trying to position their AI as something old lonely people can talk to when they have nobody else in their lives. It's really quite sad.

I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.

One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn't continue to use it.

Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest "sandwich". You buy water from the water company because you wouldn't have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell "intelligence"

Grok is this funny

Today's children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone. Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.