I think the point was that every new washing machine already does these things (measures how much detergent to use, checks when the water is clean enough etc.) without any AI. It’s not a very difficult problem domain.
Honestly those new smart washing machines with large graphic LCD displays full off sensors to detect the water quality, detergent quantity, how soiled the wash is, etc, are annoying me to hell an back with their constant nagging.
"Oh sorry, your drum is a little light , consider putting more clothes in to save the environment"
I throw another towel in.
"Oh shucks, drum weight overload, consider removing some clothes from the wash"
The problem with the new ones is that they're too smart for their own good and instead of using their smarts to make my life easier (I don't know what can be easier than the old washing machines where you throw the was inside, with the detergent, turn the program knob and push start, and why we need smart ones) they instead use their smarts to be annoying and require more user input and more steps just to fucking wash clothes.
I did a similar thing at a startup where I was working as a consultant. We would constantly run out of coffee cups so I started smuggling in more cups each day, some 50 in total. Luckily they were using cheap IKEA mugs so the total cost was roughly 100 €.
The problem could have been solved in many ways but it was a nice hobby for me. I ended up switching to work there as an employee and have been for ten years. I still use the mugs so it worked out OK.
I digitized the CDs I still had left a couple years ago. Over half of them were not on Spotify. And they weren’t even anything obscure, just electronica where licensing is often a bit complicated.
A noticeable number of Bob Dylan's live albums are all mutilated in online distribution (streaming and download, everything), because somebody somehow managed to drop the gapless between-tracks transitions. (Those missing bits exactly match the pre-gap on the corresponding CD releases, so it almost feels as Columbia just ripped its own CDs for uploading and somehow mismanaged the process).
At least around here you open an app on your phone, select which pump you are on, and the total is charged from your debit card. The total time is just the time it takes to pump fuel to the car.
That’s me too. I disliked having podcasts in otherwise perfectly OK music app, and also Spotify’s efforts to rebrand ‘podcasts’ as something else than “mp3s on RSS”. But I was a paying customer for 10+ years so they had a good run.
As an AI language model, I don't have opinions, but I can provide some information.
Weekly 1:1 meetings can be very beneficial for both the manager and the employee. It provides a regular forum for open communication, feedback, and goal setting. It also
helps to build trust and maintain a strong working relationship between the two parties.
During these meetings, both the manager and employee can discuss progress on goals, address any concerns or roadblocks, provide feedback, and address any personal or
professional development needs. This can help to ensure that everyone is working towards the same goals and can lead to increased performance and job satisfaction.
Overall, the effectiveness of these meetings may depend on the individuals involved and the nature of their work. Some may benefit more from more frequent or less
frequent check-ins. It's important to find what works best for each situation and adjust accordingly.
Everybody is talking about ChatGPT so "obviously" it's the right tool for any job imaginable. Don't need to review the output because it's "omnipotent".
This problem is going to get worse as GPT gets better. It's the new "but the computer said...", with nobody being willing to realize that it said something insane.
I seriously worry about GPT++ setting government policy in 10 years (or, worse, deciding how it's going to be applied case by case).
> I seriously worry about GPT++ setting government policy in 10 years (or, worse, deciding how it’s going to be applied case by case).
Good news! Machine learning models are already doing that, all over the world, with all the problems you would expect (a lot of the AI alignment discussion these days is an attempt by people making money in AI to distract from current AI issues.)
GPT++ is going to have to be better than ChatGPT-3 before people in charge will trust it with such decisions. for a cynical take, it can't really be bribed in its current form, so if you simplistically see politicians a being corrupt, GPT++ won't be installed until it can be bribed to act the same as a politician would be, at which point you'd have to exact same level of worry as with today's politicians (who can currently easily be lied to by a lobbyist).
Imagine there's a meme called "ignorant Ferrari guy" but in the meme he's actually driving a Porsche. That's what the fedora guy meme feels like to anyone who knows anything about hats, so of course this point gets made over and over again.
