Easy Way shares my view of AI

**possessor** · 31 March 2025, 10:16

Originally posted by moomoo

Even MS Paint and Notepad have Copilot integrated now.

... Come again?

**moomoo** · 31 March 2025, 18:25

It's true. Notepad has Copilot integration that lets you make a text longer or shorter, change the tone, etc. I can't say how well they work because these features use 'AI credits' from a Microsoft 365 subscription.

**possessor** · 31 March 2025, 20:50

Change the tone? Bill, my brother in Christ, it's called Notepad because we're making notes in it..

**moomoo** · 31 March 2025, 20:55

Yeah who's writing articles or letters in notepad? It 's supposed to be the simplest possible text editor. It's bad enough they added spell check and autocorrect.

**possessor** · 31 March 2025, 21:09

At least be dignified and use Wordpad for that type of stuff..

Oh yeah Microsoft was being retarded and got rid of Wordpad

**chuft** · 31 March 2025, 21:56

It has nothing to do with utility and everything to do with hype. Every manager in the Western world is being pressured by "leadership" to put AI in everything/use AI somehow, because it's the current buzzword.

It's like all the "cloud" crap. OneDrive is worse in every way than a dedicated file server. I can't open a file on a OneDrive at work, it has to download it locally for me to work on it. I have large Photoshop files of large hi res posters that just eat my local hard drive space every time I need to work on them because stupid OneDrive doesn't actually function as a file server. The real file servers we used to have acted as real drives and you could work on files and save them there without eating any local disk space at all.

The made-from-scratch web apps we have hosted internally all run far faster with much better response time than the commercial web apps we use that are hosted in the "cloud."

The intranet system we use keeps saying it is "AI enhanced" and has "AI search" but it's the same crappy system it always was, no difference whatsoever. But they keep touting "AI" in their literature/emails/hype machine.

**BRBFBI** · 31 March 2025, 23:04

Funny you should say that, 'cause right before you posted that CNN article I had watched a video about Apple's muddled AI rollout which pointed to the same thing: that investors want to see companies jumping on AI. Apple, which is not an AI company, has been more or less forced to oblige, resulting in features that nobody asked for being added as an afterthought. AI really is a buzzword right now.

**chuft** · 1 April 2025, 02:59

‘AI’ is now a meaningless term — thanks, Cooler Master thermal paste

**BRBFBI** · 1 April 2025, 04:27

Originally posted by chuft

‘AI’ is now a meaningless term — thanks, Cooler Master thermal paste

>Cheap Chinese product uses dubious marketing

>On the domestic website, in Chinese

**chuft** · 1 April 2025, 04:53

as captured by Tom's Hardware

**chuft** · 1 April 2025, 04:58

Yesterday on X, Cooler Master opted to show off its latest CryoFuze 5 thermal paste series by using all six available colors to plant a landscape on an existing 13th Gen Intel CPU and Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master motherboard.

I suspect "plant a landscape" should have been "paint a landscape." Is that a human error, or AI?

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**BRBFBI** · 1 April 2025, 05:14

I love this. Simple; creative; playful. Reviewers asked why release different colors of thermal paste. They answered. Why wouldn't you want to paint a tiny landscape on your CPU?

**BRBFBI** · 1 April 2025, 05:24

Originally posted by chuft

as captured by Tom's Hardware

Tom's cites Google Translate, and if you visit the site it's only in Chinese.

Cooler Master clarifies CryoFuze 5 ‘AI Thermal Paste’ announcement was a translation error

**moomoo** · 1 April 2025, 06:56

AI kinda reminds me of when radioactivity was discovered. People thought it was almost magical and used radioactive elements for everything from toothpaste to medicine to aphrodisiacs. It was only decades later that they realized it didn't do most of the things they thought it did, and was actually incredibly dangerous.

**BRBFBI** · 1 April 2025, 14:35

Originally posted by moomoo

AI kinda reminds me of when radioactivity was discovered. People thought it was almost magical and used radioactive elements for everything from toothpaste to medicine to aphrodisiacs. It was only decades later that they realized it didn't do most of the things they thought it did, and was actually incredibly dangerous.

Good analogy!

I stayed at an inn on the West coast of Japan where there was a radium water bottle in the mini fridge. I know because there was a little printout advising to “let the tap water sit in the bottle so you can enjoy it more deliciously due to the effects of radium.”