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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)
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Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The Gap between peoples opinion towards AI in everyday life vs people on Lemmy is massive and a good indicator that Lemmy is astroturfed

By who? Your conspiracy theory makes no sense. Why would anyone want to do that.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You really can’t imagine why corporations and political groups who spend billions paying people to manufacture narratives and flood feeds might hate the idea of ordinary people suddenly having their own free, on-demand content factory, fact-checker, and megaphone?

That's on both sides of the political spectrum. These AI tools are not just Google chat. You can build with them rapidly. Is it some revolutionary thing? No

But can it be a game changer in some areas? Absolutely.

They moved rapidly with the media on this. Compare headlines for AI to any other yellow journalistic topic. They're identical