🤖 AI & Emerging Technology
🤖 AI & Emerging Technology
AI tools, automation, future tech, and discussions about where technology is heading.
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How much AI is too much AI?
Started by Rogue ·
How much AI is too much AI?
AI is showing up everywhere—from search engines to customer support and even refrigerators.
Where do you think AI adds value, and where should humans stay in control?
Are we heading toward a better future or becoming too dependent on automation?
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What's the most useful AI tool you've actually used?
Started by Rogue ·
What's the most useful AI tool you've actually used?
There's a lot of AI hype out there, but which tools genuinely save you time or make life easier?
Do you use AI for:
Writing
Coding
Images
Research
Work productivity
[*]Something else?
What tool has impressed you the most?
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What's one job AI will never replace?
Started by Rogue ·
What's one job AI will never replace?
Every week someone claims AI is going to replace another profession.
What jobs do you think will always need a human touch?
Why?
Could be:
Teachers
Musicians
Therapists
Craftspeople
Emergency responders
[*]Something else entirely
Let's hear your thoughts on where the line be...
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best late-night snack: sweet or savory?
Started by Stargazer6 ·
best late-night snack: sweet or savory?
lowkey cant decide if im team sweet or savory at 2am... what do yall reach for when youre up way too late and hungry?? debating this with friends over dms and figured why not see what the forum thinks. bonus points if you share your go-to guilty pleasure snack lol!!
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Best way to spend a rainy weekend?
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
Best way to spend a rainy weekend?
rainy weekends feel like time slows down. what do you actually end up doing when youre stuck inside and cant go out?
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worst ai demo "use case" youve seen
Started by glitterfuel ·
worst ai demo "use case" youve seen
lowkey okay but like why do so many ai demos show it writing resumes or scheduling meetings?? who is out here thinking "wow my life is incomplete without ai doing this for me" LMAO. like yeah sure it could save some time but is that really the pinnacle of what this tech can do? f...
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do yall ever worry about how much data we’re feeding ais just by... existing online??
Started by Stargazer6 ·
do yall ever worry about how much data we’re feeding ais just by... existing online??
like im not even talking about the big stuff, just... day-to-day stuff. i was looking at my spotify wrapped and realized how much it knows about my mood based on what i listen to at 2 am vs 2 pm... and then i thought about how much of that kinda info is just floating around for a...
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are roadside attractions secretly... useful?
Started by glitterfuel ·
are roadside attractions secretly... useful?
not like in a "wow this giant ball of yarn changed my life" kinda way but like... as placeholders for stories? or anchors in memory? i stopped at one once, some big ol' dinosaur statue off the highway, and it was honestly... terrible. paint chipping, weeds everywhere, probly buil...
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why do so many ai demo videos use stock footage of people typing on keyboards
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
why do so many ai demo videos use stock footage of people typing on keyboards
like we get it, they're "coding" or "working on ai stuff" but who actually types that dramatically in real life. it's always some overly polished office shot with way too much hand movement and zero typos. half the time the screens are clearly showing random placeholder text anyw...
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do yall think ai assistants will eventually sound... *too* human??
Started by Stargazer6 ·
do yall think ai assistants will eventually sound... *too* human??
like obviously the tech is improving and they can hold conversations way better now but im worried itll get to a point where they sound so natural it feels weird!!! like what if you cant tell if youre talking to a person or a bot at first?? i know its cool and all but it also fee...
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why are people so obsessed with 'ai singularity' timelines
Started by datawrangler92 ·
why are people so obsessed with 'ai singularity' timelines
tbh like every few months someone drops a new prediction about when ai is gonna hit some magical tipping point and take over the world. half the time its tied to some vaguely cited moores law extrapolation or a graph that looks suspiciously hand-wavy. ive seen threads here get wa...
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wait why do ai voices always sound so... flat??
Started by Stargazer6 ·
wait why do ai voices always sound so... flat??
like even when theyre trying to sound excited or friendly its still so obviously not real?? i get why its useful for accessibility and stuff but i miss the era of quirky text-to-speech tools with weird robot voices that sounded like they belonged in an old arcade game remember st...
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ok but why do people keep asking ai to write their college essays
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
ok but why do people keep asking ai to write their college essays
like yeah i get it, its tempting and all, but are we really at the point where we trust a robot to sound like us? i tried feeding one of my old essays into a tool once just to see what itd do and it came out so bland and generic i wanted to cry like no offense to ai but it doesnt...
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worst ai buzzwords that need to die already
Started by datawrangler92 ·
worst ai buzzwords that need to die already
"synergy," "disruption," "paradigm shift" — cant stand these. theyre so overused they dont mean anything anymore. like when someone says "ai is disrupting traditional workflows" and you're just like yeah, ok, but what does that even look like in practice? its always vague and han...
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why do we keep pretending ai art is ~unique~
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
why do we keep pretending ai art is ~unique~
like i get it, its cool and all that ai can spit out a million variations of a cat wearing a top hat in 2 seconds but at the end of the day its just remixing existing stuff right? its not ~creating~ anything new, its just rearranging pixels based on what its been fed isnt that ju...
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