• GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    1 hour

    "Imagine your own personal Jarvis accessible from any connected device whether it’s a pair of earbuds, smart glasses, smartphone, or notebook. These devices will be constantly feeding sensor data to an agent. "

    Nice hook, but ‘my own personal jarvis’ is not on offer anywhere. It’s big tech’s version, so a comparison with Ultron would be a bit closer to the truth.

    This is a great illustration of how it could have been cool, but privacy, ownership and control matter…

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      23 minutes

      Your own Jarvis is starting to be increasingly possible if you’re into self hosting. Of course nobody is getting rich off that so they don’t advertise it. Oh and latency is still a bit of an issue. The “thinking” phase of an agent doesn’t generate output that’s directly useful to your question so it’s not shown by default what’s going on.

      And now this whole ordeal has got me wanting to watch the Iron Man movies

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    Fuck right off. This shit is burning down and you know it, fucker.

    Can’t wait to see all these TechnoFascist CEOs eat shit when the market crashes.

    • WrathEnchanter@europe.pubEnglish
      12 hours

      They won’t be eating shit, they’ll be bailed out like 2008 and YOU will have to pay for it and therefore be eating shit

      • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 hours

        No, this one can’t be bailed out. The scale is so big, it’s going to bring down the global financial system. And then burn through to the economics layer.

      • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 hours

        The scale of their fuckup is so large and so so costly that there literally isn’t enough liquid cash floating in the economy to bail them out. We’re talking TRILLIONS of dollars that would have to be pulled from the world and shoved into the tech industry simply to plug the hole for a short time. A bailout simply isn’t in the cards if they want there to be a government moving forward.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1 hour

          A bailout simply isn’t in the cards if they want there to be a government moving forward.

          I dunno how they feel about it… It could be a chance to establish “temporary” emergency powers.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    21 hours

    AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

    But what if I don’t want them to?

    • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12 hours

      Then you opt-out and you won’t need to look at any track anymore. They’ll still track you.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        4 hours

        They’ll still track you.

        There are (admittedly inconvenient) actions I can take to reduce how much I’m tracked, and also to intentionally pollute a portion of the tracking data that thwy do collect.

        Or I could just give up and let the fuckers win…

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    1 day

    So… instead of creating a product, proving it’s good, and getting sales that way, they’re using rapist tactics and arguments!? No red flags there!

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    21 hours

    I feel like I’m getting the last laugh for being childfree and, how shall we say, no longer young. I’m just hoping to run down the clock before things get too shitty. But they seem to be trying to speedrun this shit.

    • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      If the quoted text is an actual quote, he is directly quoting the elcatch phrase of the Borg from star trek.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 day

      Cue the pirates of the Caribbean scene/ where captain Barbosa tells you you’re “in one”

      You best start believing dystopian sci-fi stories, you’re in one

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              19 hours

              Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of ‘new text document’ and avoid watermarks:

              (Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added ‘cyber’. Also, here’s a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)

              • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
                18 hours

                Fucking GOAT.

                I’ve had that shitty copy saved for about 2 years now, it’s good to have a slick clean version instead <3

  • KingKong33@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

    I’m sorry, how is it inescapable? If I follows me across devices, I just won’t use those devices. So how’s it going to follow me then?

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      You don’t need to use devices. Other people are, so you will be part of it. Any device in your proximity will listen to you, any photos other people take of you will identify you, public cameras or facitities will surveil you, smart energy meters will know what you do in your home…

      That is why the position of “I don’t care, because I don’t use that tech.” or “It is peoples choice.” Is so useless… We need strong regulation… Worldwide.

  • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
    1 day

    CEO translation: “Please buy our 6g equipment: here’s a spurious justification”. I remember how VR/AR was supposed to be the justification for why we needed 5g speeds.

    • NakedNateRollerSkate@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1 day

      Autonomous vehicles too. I know because I wrote some of the patents ten years ago for Qualcomm and Ericsson on these exact topics. The world felt like a much different place back then.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        16 hours

        Remote surgerical procedures as well. At least it was hyped here in Japan, anyway.

  • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

    I read the whole article and did not find an answer for a very simple question: what are benefits for users? The whole speech is about how we CAN put agents to all the devices, etc. without answering the simple question WHY should we do it. There are a lot of words about how can google and friends use the data for advertising. But nothing about motivation of users to allow it. He is talking about economical reasons but it will work if and only if users will have economical reasons to put agents on their devices. As of today I do not see a lot of usage of autonomous agents outside of the professional work like software development or ms word automation. What are reasons for people to make these agents a part of their life? The whole speech is built on top of the assumption that happens without a word about why should it. Am I missing something?

    • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6 hours

      Im not sure what the point of agents is yet in daily life. Ive been meening to try out some agent harnesses to see if i can get anything useful out of them.

      So far my thoughts are, having used them for coding (they need babby sitting or will thought loop) and research on product ideas (actually can be somewhat useful in early stages to find prior art) they could be really useful for me personally keeping track of what im supposed to be doing any given day at work, they could also be useful for auto moderation. They might be useful for organizing my personal email inbox, they might be useful for dealing with compaines automated phone lines that go nowhere useful quickly.

      So im a bit scatter brained and am juggling 5 projects at any given time at work, I often forget random tasks or problems i noticed. So having an LLM that can scan my last week of teams and email to generate a list of tasks i was asked to deal with and current problems ranked by importance could be quite useful. Havent gotten the time to test this. But im hopeful that is a viable usecase.

      I have done some testing in chat mode to see how well they can enforce a given set of rules for hypothetical comments for say a forum or public chat. That seems to work fairly well, though I am not sure its a good idea to let them enforce unsupervised, but the false positive rate is pretty low, its promising with some tweaking and can almost certainly deal with spammers autonomously. I need to set up a harness and unleash one on a low stakes low volume chat/forum to see what happens.

      Based on the results for moderation, and some testing for content analysis i expexct they would be great at classifying emails/documents and suggesting a sensible folder structure and email rules to keep things neat and tidy. Id never let them just run unsupervised but id expext really good suggestions for todying and catching mistakes ive made in my own organizing. Im hopeful here.

      As for dealing with companies, the old phone trees could get annoying but the ammount of time i waste trying to get phone agents or the now mandatory chat agents where phone lines are gone is monumentally higher. Id rather burn my gpu power to have my bot talk to their bot until something actually useful or actionable is extracted. Its obviously a really bad fit, but my time is more valuable than the power id spend letting the bots try to reach and accord.

      (All this is based on running models locally if that wasnt clear, i refuse to do this with a public pay as you go model)

    • kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      You’re not missing anything. Execs have bought into AI hype and consider it a given that AI will be transformative, so they’re not bothering to think about use cases or real world applications. After all, the “user” is beneath them; so the user should just be happy and grateful for the opportunity.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      This is why people like him hate/fear regulation. Regulating this is the people’s way (in a functioning democracy) to put hard barriers on what these people are permitted to do in order to squeeze out another dime.