• Soup@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And still, I don’t get their use case unless it’s to be deliberately sneaky. Even their own ads are just “if you’re a pathetic idiot with no friends or ability to plan ahead even a little bit, these are the glasses for you!”

    At a fancy restaurant by yourself and don’t know how the utensils work?

    Need a hotel and just wanna blindly trust your glasses?

    Can’t speak the local language at a resort full of anglophones and the attendant for some reason only speaks that language?

    Or maybe you’re at a concert by yourself and really need to film something(you don’t, everyone else should be putting their fucking phones away, too).

    Like LLMs, they’re a sad technology for sad, stupid people.

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      2 days ago

      Like LLMs, they’re a sad technology for sad, stupid people.

      LLMs are good for identifying plants. And transcription. And a bunch of other things I can’t think of right now. If you’ve ever had to do transcription by hand, you know the pain, and you’ll be so grateful to have a machine do it for you.

      The problem is people trying to shoehorn LLMs into everything and calling it “Artificial Intelligence”.

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        2 days ago

        We had a lot of that technology before and didn’t need inefficient AI to do it for us. Also do LLMs(large language models) actually identify plants?

        We functioned without this bullshit just fine only a few years ago. This whole AI buzz is a post-covid thing and people are acting like we’d all die and civilization would grind to a halt if we don’t let data centres fuck us up our collective asshole.

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      2 days ago

      Need a hotel and just wanna blindly trust your glasses?

      What are your other options? Blindly trust google? Blindly trust random locals? Blindly trust every hotel receptionist trying to convince you to stay at their hotel?

      At some point you have to trust something.

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        2 days ago

        You can at least look at options presented to you. Even Google Maps will let you manually sift through businesses. Letting your fucking sunglasses tell you “go here” is immensely different, dude.

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            2 days ago

            Get this, I can also look it up on the already insanely powerful phone in my pocket, see the options with my own eyes, look at the map so I know where I’m going, and make my decisions on my own because I’m not an adult baby who needs his sunnies to tell him what to do.

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              1 day ago

              But what if your hands are occupied, carrying shopping bags or eating a sandwich on the go? These things have legitimate use

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                1 day ago

                Put your shopping bags down? Plan ahead?

                I swear to god, you people are so intensely lazy. It is not in any way worth it, the damage these glasses for the mentally impotent are currently causing isn’t worth it and it will never be worth it. You’re acting like if I sent you back to 2002 you’d fucking die in three-to-five business days.

                So pathetic.

                • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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                  24 hours ago

                  Nobody is saying its necessary for survival. Yes, we can go back to the 1800s and still survive. That doesn’t mean computers are bad. Whether or not it’s “worth it” remains to be seen, since these things were only just released