My view of AI (3)

**chuft** · 19 March 2025, 03:03

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...g-on-march-28/

**possessor** · 19 March 2025, 04:30

Originally posted by chuft

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...g-on-march-28/

Oh, brother this GUY- I mean.. COMPANY STINKS

But srsly, is there a genuine reason that this will be useful??
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As we continue to expand Alexa’s capabilities with generative AI features that rely on the processing power of Amazon’s secure cloud, we have decided to no longer support this feature.

Yeah, because AI evolution is much more important then privacy.. smh

**chuft** · 30 March 2025, 14:31

Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown

**LazyPooky** · 30 March 2025, 16:07

I like AI to be standalone software that you can use whenever you need it or don't care for it if you're not interested. Integrate something that is constantly changing is not the right thing to do and forcing people to use it is even worse. Samsung smartphones do also have standard stuff installed and sometimes you can't switch it off, draining power. I like the cheap ones more, like Motorola. They let you have only what you need (for now..).

**moomoo** · 30 March 2025, 19:05

Even MS Paint and Notepad have Copilot integrated now.

**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.