Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
It is not something anyone needs in their personal life, but it is an amazing tool when used correctly.
Come on, this is not a "showerthought", this is just an opinion. Put it elsewhere.
Moderators, please wake up.
I’m not sure this is a shower thought but agree with you completely. Potential harms are far greater than the potential benefits.
I certainly need AI in my life more than I need you.
We don’t need bag clips, either. But they make life easier.
Which part of AI is actually going to make our lives easier? I use it occasionally to get me out of a coding problem but what else will it actually be good for society and in our daily lives?
As another said, it will do more harm than good and will only serve megacorp in the end.
Which part of AI is actually going to make our lives easier? I use it occasionally to get me out of a coding problem
You posted the answer yourself. What exactly do you need me to do?
What we refer to as "AI" today, i.e. large language models (because the definition of "AI" has changed over the years), is just a search engine that can understand natural language. Think the Enterprise computer on Star Trek, but even smarter. That's extremely useful once we work out the final kinks.
ai drug discovery will help us
oh and if you don't have wifi with you, a downloaded LLM can suffice as an internetless search engine
congrats you just discovered offline Wikipedia
what if you don't have enough space for all 150 gigabytes? llama 3.1 8b fits into 8 gigs
offline Wikipedia on a phone vs llama which needs a PC:
wiki needs:
- 20-30 GB for the text version
- can fit on most phones otherwise use SD card /USB storage
- isn't full of AI slop
Llama 3.1 8B Requirements:
- CPU: Modern processor with at least 8 cores
- RAM: Minimum of 16 GB recommended
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3090
- doesn't run on Android or iOS
also keep in mind most people outside of tech/gamer bros can't afford the financial investment for a PC that can run it. most people can afford an Android phone
my PC is a refurbished second-hand dinosaur from 2019 and it can do this fine, no gpu. And you don't need good specs at all other than the RAM being enough to load the model into memory, which in this case is 5 gigs.
doesn’t run on Android or iOS
You sure about androids?
Anyway if llama 3.1 is too big, just use qwen3:0.6b or something small
Also Wikipedia doesn't contain all knowledge of the internet, but this stuff was trained on everything
at least Wikipedia won't waste your time with misinformation. llama could be trained on the entirety of human history for all I care, doesn't matter one bit if it can't provide accurate sources and facts
...it can’t provide accurate sources and facts
When you don't have internet access, which is the use case I was talking about, you don't have sources other than what you've downloaded. If you cant check the sources, then effectively there are none.
that's an insult to bag clips which are actually useful and aren't based on FUD propaganda
I think you're referring to LLMs which are just one tiny facet of what we can do with AI. But there are so many other use cases (disease diagnosis, weather prediction, spam or fraud detection, just to name a few), so we shouldn't disregard it as a whole. I agree that generative AI is being overhyped these days though and it's also making me mad that it causes people to think that's all there is to AI.