I cancelled my personal O365 subscription for this reason, even though I prefer Word to LibreOffice and the crap my Mac provides-- it wasnt just they raised the price, it was the new "AI" features they kept pushing.
When I cancelled, I made it clear why I was doing it. But I doubt anyone reads the feedback we provide
sorry, but thats a misleading title. The article is more like "Everything I hate about the AI companies"
You can hate (or at least disagree with) how companies like OpenAi work, and still believe in their hype (or at least that they will make good money).
Everyone hate cigarette companies yet they continue giving great stock returns.
Most of the article is standard complaint we've heard before. Im not defending OpenaI (or MEta or whatever), but these complaints have been heard a million times. Why is this on the front page?
True, but this is the most basic, non-smart machine. It runs on simple wiring and manual controls, but it gets the job done, especially when it comes to washing. Drying isn’t perfect, and yes, it requires some effort, but it’s the cheapest machine you can get.
On Android Telegram works with denied access to the contacts and maintains its own, completely separate, contact list (shared with desktop Telegram and other copies logged in to same account). I'm using Telegram longer than I'm using smartphone and it has completely separate contact list (as it should be).
And WhatsApp cannot be used without access to contacts: it doesn't allow to create WatsApp-only contact and complains that it has no place to store it till you grant access to Phone contact list.
To be honest, I prefer to have separate contact lists on all my communication channel, and even sharing contacts between phone app and e-mail app (GMail) bothers me.
Telegram is good in this aspect, it can use its own contact list, not synchronized or shared with anything else, and WhatsApp is not.
Looks to me like it was a bug. Not giving access to any contacts broke the app completely but limited access works fine except for an annoying persistent in app notification.
iOS generally solves this through App Store submission reviews so I’m surprised this isn’t a rule and that telegram got away with it. “Apps must not gate functionality behind receiving access to all contacts vs a subset” or something. They definitely do so for location access, for example.
Could it be we are all scared, because if we call the Emperor naked, and 15 years from now someone finds a useful case for AI(even if its completely different to what exists today), everyone will point to our post and say "Hahaha look at those Luddites, didnt even believe AI was real LOL"
The recent high level of funding (Stargate, HUMAIN, ...), seemingly prompted mostly by LLMs, could plausibly be an emperor's new clothes fear of missing out among investors - will have to wait and see how it pans out.
But for 2010s-era machine learning this article is talking about, I feel it largely already has been validated - from shunned and unfunded at the start of the decade to being the almost universal go-to for any NLP or computer vision task by the end. The article itself lists a few use-cases (protein folding, weather forecasting, drug discovery), and I think it's unlikely you've gone through the day without encountering at least a few more (maybe search engines query-understanding, language translation, generated video captions, OCR, or using a product that was scanned for defects).
Not that every ML method will work out first try when applied to a new problem, but it's far from the case that we're waiting 15 years hoping for someone to maybe find a use-case for the field.
Whaaaat? Even 10-12 years ago Ive worked for companies that used waterfall. Most hardware/embedded companies do, because it works for hardware. The problem arises when they try to use it for software too (though embedded companies have gotten better last 5-7 years)
When I cancelled, I made it clear why I was doing it. But I doubt anyone reads the feedback we provide
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