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AI is like a hammer (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Any tool can be a hammer if you use it wrong enough.

A good hammer is designed to be a hammer and only used like a hammer.

If you have a fancy new hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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[โ€“] aaaa@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Complaining that it's called AI is like complaining that smartphones are called smart. There's no stopping it, you just end up sounding like an old man yelling at the cloud. (Which isn't really a cloud, but we still call it that)

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 4 months ago

Nah, smartphones being actually "smarter" than feature phones as in you can do way more than just basic stuff like calling, messaging people, run a simple calculation, having a calendar etc.