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  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Eh. It's useful for finding what I want to know. The result to a query which goes like "Based on this paragraph from some documentation written in 2005 (link) the answer is

    <bunch of generated text rehashing the information I wanted to find in the first place>

    " is a whole lot more useful than "Here is a list of thousands and thousands of irrelevant and incoherently sorted results, of which one is probably what you were looking for. Good luck." which was, unfortunately, the state of the art up to this point.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • I lived through the dotcom hype cycle, the 5G cycle, the crypto cycle, etc. The useful (boring!) bits of technology remain and something new and shiny becomes the target of hype and speculation a few years later. Nothing new really.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Yeah the AI hype levels are insane, but at the same time I think there is some interesting and actually useful technology there. That's my 2c anyway.

    The search thing is specific to internal data sets btw. Anyone who has used intranet search engines at large companies would probably relate just how terrible they are. Much worse than Google is at searching the internet.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Sure, you can't trust LLMs and just copy-paste whatever comes out of it. But it's very effective as a way to find something in very large mixed datasets when you may not know which exact keywords to use for a traditional search engine.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology. But being able to ask in natural language "why is something the way it is" and it returns references to code, bugs, and documentation along with a small summary is pretty cool. It works better than any of the half-baked corporate search engines I've used before. Is this not "knowledge retrieval"? In any case I can see the utility.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army

    www.politico.eu /article/friedrich-merz-germany-bundestag-europe-conventional-army/
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army

    www.politico.eu /article/friedrich-merz-germany-bundestag-europe-conventional-army/

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • AI can be a useful tool and I think it will slowly become more common in the workplace, for example it can be very convenient for knowledge retrieval, but it's laughable to think that it can replace humans. I'd wager any time "AI" can replace a human the job could've already been automated through other means.

  • Is This the Year We Doom Civilization? We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change

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  • Aw man I glanced at that chart thinking "oh that's pretty good!" before reading.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What home-cooked meal do you frequently make and still enjoy?

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    A live feed of the world's conversations happening on digital ham radio

    hose.brandmeister.network

  • Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

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  • I've been looking at possible phone options too. There are several degoogled Android options but it's still Android of course. And switching to a Linux phone seems like it would be really limiting without access to Android/iOS apps. Do Linux phone users just use the browser to replace all those apps? I guess it could work, though it seems less ergonomic.

  • Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

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  • I don't have an Android phone currently but I thought I'd check on iOS and, yep, Google Drive has access to all files. Well that's a bit hypocritical.

  • Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet

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  • Fascism will surely be defeated by "slowing the nomination process". Well, I guess it's something. Sigh.

  • Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE detention for 3 months. She is one of a growing number of non-criminal immigrants detained by ICE since Donald Trump took office

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  • Just a few years ago I watched the movie Bridge of Spies which, based on real events, dramatically portrayed the arbitrary Kafkaesque detention of American student Frederic Pryor by the evil Stasi and the unjust East German state. Well I guess we're the baddies now.

  • U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids

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  • The children yearn for the minesfactories.

  • Tufts student details harrowing transport by ICE, lack of food and medical care in detention

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  • “We are not monsters,” the officer told her, according to the statement. “We do what the government tells us.”

    I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see the Nuremberg defense being thrown around already.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    At 100, he's the last original owner of a Frank Lloyd Wright house

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Posy - Lamps

  • I'm Tessellation Kilmister, and you're listening to NPR.

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  • This is Marketplace with Dave Smith Aperiodic Monotile Schuldiner.

  • Usernames using randomized nonsense

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  • That's probably just mail that lands in your spam folder without being entirely blocked. According to Microsoft and Google approximately 99% of incoming spam (of the ~160 billion spam emails sent per day) never even reaches their users mailboxes. I assume that's roughly standard across email providers. I am concerned comparably sophisticated filtering may become necessary on the Fediverse eventually.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    It took 250 years to build what Trump is trying to undo

    edition.cnn.com /2025/05/09/politics/federal-agencies-trump-irs-usps-photo-essay-what-matters

  • Usernames using randomized nonsense

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  • I've been using Fedi for a long time and from the very beginning I've been afraid of spam and bots ruining it, at least temporarily. Spam is still a problem with e-mail, and it's been around for 40 years and they've developed very sophisticated anti-spam mitigations for it.

  • What is your favorite retro wargame?

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  • Total Annihilation

  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

    arstechnica.com /science/2025/05/europe-launches-program-to-lure-scientists-away-from-the-us/

  • Free school lunches

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  • "Fuck you, I've got mine" seems to be the mantra of a shockingly large number of people.

  • Dredd: The Musical

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  • The movie and the comics seem well aware that it's a horrible dystopia. But I agree making it "cool" can be problematic.

  • Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
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    NixOS 25.05 “Warbler” is planned for release on 2025-05-23

    discourse.nixos.org /t/zero-hydra-failures-25-05-edition/63731
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Steve Mould: This microscope spins - and the shots are insane

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Dredd: The Musical

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.

    newrepublic.com /post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy