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[dinny_g]

Yup…

Picture the pointy haired manager from Dilbert saying “But AI has the most RAM”

[Jobbo]

What’s AI about the control system for those drones?

A fiver says that the company who arranged this is heavily invested in AI tech, has made zero money out of it - like most of the AI space - and is desperate to try to make out they got some value out of it.

Also it's been pushed by an AI channel on insta, and they desperately need someone else to be holding the bag when the bubble bursts, hence promoting AI as the solution to everything to encourage gullible VCs and CTOs to throw money at the tech.

Desperate you say.... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/18/busi ... t-nightcap

I liken it to 'turbo' badges being stuck on everything in the 1980s. If it has any computer-related element, it's described as AI even if it's just a macro running in Excel.

Also, isn't AI supposed to learn? So you don't need to issue new versions; it'll improve itself over time.

[Jobbo]

What’s AI about the control system for those drones?

A fiver says that the company who arranged this is heavily invested in AI tech, has made zero money out of it - like most of the AI space - and is desperate to try to make out they got some value out of it.

Also it's been pushed by an AI channel on insta, and they desperately need someone else to be holding the bag when the bubble bursts, hence promoting AI as the solution to everything to encourage gullible VCs and CTOs to throw money at the tech.

I think I've found out what is AI about it: https://dronelife.com/2025/09/15/verge- ... how-tools/
According to Verge Aerospace's own site the show is not AI: https://www.verge.aero/everything-about ... shows-work
So it's not the flying part, it's just the user interface

[Beany]

Also, despite them protesting that it's not about replacing artists and engineers, they're pretty up front that it saves you from having to go to the bother of hiring all those artists and engineers.

Maybe they'll try hooking it into grok and it'll make them a nice big swastika.

( AI can't really 'learn' per se, it mostly infers from existing datasets - that's why the likes of Musk and Altman claiming that AI will come up with the next big physics breakthroughs is absolute fucking hogwash, like everything else those idiots say - it's lies, and they either know it, or they desperately need people to believe them before the bubble bursts. They just know that Physics Is Hard and they desperately want to pretend to know anything about it or be involved in it, because nerds with arrested development and deep pockets )

[Jobbo]

AI can't really 'learn' per se, it mostly infers from existing datasets

It's basically a search engine then. Intelligence implies that it gains something from the knowledge it acquires and builds on that.

[dinny_g]

Isn't that the fundamental flaw with AI - as AI itself creates more and more data in those data sets, the "quality" of AI generated content starts to reduce.

Bit like the early days of the Internet itself - it used to be dependable because "why would anyone bother to publish incorrect or inaccurate data on the Web" but over time, as it grew, it became more and more cat videos ?

[jamcg]

This should come with a warning. It’s an absolute earworm that you’ll end up singing away to yourself for the next 3 weeks

[Jobbo]

Isn't that the fundamental flaw with AI - as AI itself creates more and more data in those data sets, the "quality" of AI generated content starts to reduce.

That is a good point - the implementation of AI we are being given is going to become lowest common denominator as it feeds on the product of other AI. It's like a dystopian future, but it's a beige blancmange of smooth blandness.

[Beany]

Yeah, basically the idea is that as AI model users spit out more shitty AI generated content onto the internet, later models ingest that as they scrape and crawl, and because it's low quality (but high enough quality to be not easily seperable by machines or humans), it causes enshittification.

Long story short, I call it Habsburg AI.

[mik]

Greatest Dad Of All Time / far more money than sense : depending on your viewpoint.

https://www.threads.com/@pete_chanel/po ... JzA&slof=1

[Simon]

The later. Also, why isn't the kid at school?

[Rich B]

Greatest Dad Of All Time / far more money than sense : depending on your viewpoint.

https://www.threads.com/@pete_chanel/po ... JzA&slof=1

Greg Wallace over compensating.

[Jobbo]

[nuttinnew]

Greg Wallace over compensating.

[mik]