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So why is it AI generated?
There are passengers in that train, diners in the restaurants and customers in the grocery store. If you wanted human connection you could try talking to them. When people whinge like this they are saying they are losing people financially incentivised to put up with their shit.
Guy never watched Star Trek. Guy prefers interaction by way of paying someone. Guy is not what you think.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind supermarket without cashiers. I’ll be my own, thank you very much.
With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.
For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.
Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.
And soon after that, you’ll be stocking your own shelves, then you’ll be driving the forklift in the back store…
Growing your own food!
Ok, point taken. You guys can have your people. I’ll take self checkout.
Yep too much work
This is why I support the Mechanicus, despite appearances you know there is a human brain in that machine somewhere.
and why is sidney at the background?
And where is the other half of the bridge?
Big fan of the self-checkout at the grocery store. And seeing this is Germany, 9 out of 10 shoppers would rather stand in the queue. Never a lineup at the self-check!
I only use self-checkout when it’s an option no matter the business. I worked in a grocery store as a cashier for 11 years and all it did was make me hate people so I’m not gonna be part of the problem for somebody else.
This picture being generated aside, do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?
Sadly yes.
Lots of basic algorithms are now called AI
That slapped me right across the face, the company that makes the shit CAM software I use has been busy shoveling AI into every crack for the last year instead of addressing the decade’s worth of actual user requests.
I hate everything about it.
a2 + b2=AI
I thought it was E = mc^2 + AI
Use our new AI agent to help you calculate Pythagoras - Some tech company
Yes? Anything electronic is AI. Just like electricity used to be basically magic to people.
Human kind loves to blame things they don’t understand for 10x longer than it would take to learn about it.
The point is to isolate you, that way your easier to manipulate with social media algorithms
Sure except expecting someone to stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless. Surely there are more edifying ways for a human being to spend their time
That would be true if by utilizing the staffing cuts, they increased wages or lowered costs but instead they just pocket the profits.
But humans, by and large, suck, especially in public.
I don’t want to interact with AI, but I also don’t want to interact with people.
best addition of ML (i wouldn’t call it AI because that’s both tainted and not what it is) has been self checkout when you put fresh fruit/veg on the scales and tap the button, the selection window has a list of ~3 probable items based on computer vision… it doesn’t automatically choose for me, there are a few likely options, i can still select based on alphabetical if it’s not there, and it’s a tab at the start of the alphabet on the screen so i can go back to it… it’s just helpful, and doesn’t remove anything
So just a traditional computer interface 👌
Dumb machines that do what you want, like ticket machines, or self-checkout are fine by me, but if they start trying to get chummy with me, I’m out. Like the doors in The Hitch-hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
Yes, I can’t stand the obsequiousness of most LLMs. “That’s a great question!” No need to string words together to pretend to be riding my dick, clanker, just answer the damn question!
And in private, if they think they can get away with it. I think humans mostly just suck tbh.
this is fucking AI lol
Dead eyesss
Ok see that’s where I am going to have to disagree with you there, sport.
Hell is famously, other people.
If all these things are replaced so people can spend more time with each other instead of working then I’ll gladly take it, but if it’s just for profit throw it out.
Though driverless trains I’ll take on purely financial grounds, should save up money for trains to keep coming after last call so the drunks can ride home safe
