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"The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent," he added. "Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

Needless to say, we haven't seen anything like that yet. OpenAI's top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail's pace and requires constant supervision.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've been working on an internal project for my job - a quarterly report on the most bleeding edge use cases of AI, and the stuff achieved is genuinely really impressive.

So why is the AI at the top end amazing yet everything we use is a piece of literal shit?

The answer is the chatbot. If you have the technical nous to program machine learning tools it can accomplish truly stunning processes at speeds not seen before.

If you don't know how to do - for eg - a Fourier transform - you lack the skills to use the tools effectively. That's no one's fault, not everyone needs that knowledge, but it does explain the gap between promise and delivery. It can only help you do what you already know how to do faster.

Same for coding, if you understand what your code does, it's a helpful tool for unsticking part of a problem, it can't write the whole thing from scratch

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That is not at all what he said. He said that creating some arbitrary benchmark on the level or quality of the AI, (e.g.: as it's as smarter than a 5th grader or as intelligent as an adult) is meaningless. That the real measure is if there is value created and out out into the real world. He also mentions that global growth is up by 10%. He doesn't provide data that correlates the grow with the use of AI and I doubt that such data exists yet. Let's not just twist what he said to be "Microsoft CEO says AI provides no value" when that is not what he said.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

microsoft rn:

✋ AI

👉 quantum

can't wait to have to explain the difference between asymmetric-key and symmetric-key cryptography to my friends!

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Forgive my ignorance. Is there no known quantum-safe symmetric-key encryption algorithm?

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

i'm not an expert by any means, but from what i understand, most symmetric key and hashing cryptography will probably be fine, but asymmetric-key cryptography will be where the problems are. lots of stuff uses asymmetric-key cryptography, like https for example.

[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

R&D is always a money sink

[–] masterbaexunn@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Especially when the product is garbage lmao

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's because they want to use AI in a server scenario where clients login. That translated to American English and spoken with honesty means that they are spying on you. Anything you do on your computer is subject to automatic spying. Like you could be totally under the radar, but as soon as you say the magic words together bam!...I'd love a sling thong for my wife...bam! Here's 20 ads, just click to purchase since they already stole your wife's boob size and body measurements and preferred lingerie styles. And if you're on McMaster... Hmm I need a 1/2 pipe and a cap...Better get two caps in case you cross thread on.....ding dong! FBI! We know you're in there! Come out with your hands up!

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only thing stopping me from switching to Linux is some college software (Won't need it when I'm done) and 1 game (which no longer gets updates and thus is on the path to a slow sad demise)

So I'm on the verge of going Penguin.

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What software / game is that? it could still run in Wine or Bottle.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plants vs. Zombies garden Warfare 2. It used to run on Linux but then they added Easy anti-cheat which broke compatibility.

They don't update the game anymore and they've essentially abandoned the franchise after the flop that was battle for neighborville so I'm not too sad leaving it behind. Was a very fun game though.

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's sad... i am not able to play battlefield 2042 after switching to linux too. For the same reason, their anti cheat is not compatible