Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
    16Ā·
    2 months ago

    reporter: This AI development is a Big Dealā„¢.

    me: y tho?

    reporter: Oh, Iā€™m so glad you asked! The AI is IN the computer!

    me: y tho?

    reporter: To win the race to get AI everywhere the fastest!

    me: sorry, y tho?

    reporter: Oh my, you sure have a lot of questions! Look, letā€™s not try to make any sense of this. After all, only our tech-daddies have the answers!

    me: begins weeping

    reporter: Donā€™t cry! At least weā€™re all in this together, right???

    While AI being ā€œinā€ a computer might sound as obvious as blue being ā€œinā€ the sky, this is actually one of those things that is a Big Dealā„¢. AI models are normally either downloaded or used online, but Microsoft has just announced an ā€œAI computerā€, meaning the technology is in-built. Itā€™s the companyā€™s latest play in the overheated race to see which tech giant can get the most AI into the most places, fastest.

    What does it mean? Hard to say! In case you havenā€™t worked it out yet, this is all one big live experiment, and weā€™re the rats. Perhaps thereā€™s some comfort in knowing weā€™ll all find out together.

    edit: oh no, this is the same author I sneered at for quirkwashing e/acc. nothing personal, I just die a little inside every time I read something like this, and a little death is always better shared!

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      6Ā·
      2 months ago

      I started pre-hurting in 2018-2019 when I saw SoC vendors pitch things as AI chips because you could natively run accelerated models on them for speech and image recognition. Yes, really, that was the total pitch. Itā€™s AI because you could run models. Where to train the models, what the total scope of capacity was, total execution space, total throughput, etc? No no, not practically touched at all in those docs

      And where I said pre-hurting? At the time I thought ā€œoh godā€ā€¦.you can imagine how quaint that memory feels in retrospect right now

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        8Ā·
        2 months ago

        oh yeah doing embedded dev that was always the worst. my RISC-V SoC has an AI accelerator on it! cool, what does the datasheet say it does? TensorFlow lite and nothing else. ok maybe I can use that silicon for something else at least? nope, thereā€™s no documentation on its capabilities or how it works at all, it just does TensorFlow lite. shit well ok, what can I do with TensorFlow lite? you can load the example model weā€™ve provided and make a shitty voice activation trigger or try to train a model but thereā€™s no docs. well fuck me then.

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          7Ā·
          2 months ago

          And donā€™t you dare ask about the intended binary representation, thatā€™s obviously some illegal hacker shit

          Just render it out with lite! What do you mean about in 3-5y? Software doesnā€™t change, you scrub. We have a golden master toolchain right here on our ftp, itā€™s at ftp://nonssl.http25.pub.norsou-semi-sometimes.xyz/pub/archive/noindex feel free to download and develop your own applications!