Post #1637743
2026-04-24 10:43 UTC
A memorable quote from Nilay Patel's article on software changing the world: "Anyone who’s actually ever run a database knows this. At some point, the database stops matching reality. At that point, we usually end up tweaking the database, not the world. But the AI industry has fully lost sight of this, because AI thrives on data. It’s just software, after all. And so the ask is for more and more of us to conform our lives to the database, not the other way around." https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
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@mlanger@mastodon.world 2026-04-24 11:42
@RalphBassfeld@swiss.social In my mind, the difference between automation and what #AI does is that AI is attempting to THINK for us. I don't want that kind of "automation." I want to be able to tell a smart home light, for example, to turn on 90 minutes before sunset and turn off at 10:30 PM or turn on the floodlights when motion is detected in the driveway at night. Or, when I dictate text that includes the word worth, it doesn't go into my contacts and pull out the last name of one of my friends, Wurth.