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1. Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 04:55:04 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   Problems 2020’s-era AI has solved:

   ✅ Fix the lack of images of people with polydactyly

   ✅ Cure the ongoing shortage of badly rhymed limericks

   ✅ Finally replace those pesky “links” in search results in search engines with half-baked opinions

   Rejoice!

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 04:55:02 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     I don't want come across as extremely cyni...

     Actually, you know what, I am extremely cynical about this. It's the same tech industry bullshit that comes along with every "revolutionary new technology" that turns out to be marketing hype to increase corporate profits.

     Sure, there's some applications of it that actually are great, like identifying possible cancer on x-rays--but you know what would save more lives? People actually having access to healthcare and regular screenings.

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 04:55:03 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

     in reply to

     Other amazing benefits include:

     ✅ Falsely accusing people of crimes by wrongly identifying them via facial recognition

     ✅ Ruining people's lives by flagging their bank account for fraud for no reason

     ✅ Making customer support even worse by sticking customers into chat bot queues before they can speak to a human being who can actually fix the problem

     Fantastic stuff!

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.