• LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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      Chinese OEMs love to do this for some reason, my phone says"ULTRA PREMIUM" right near the flash.
      I already bought the device Xiaomi, you can stop advertising it to me now lol.

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    I had to talk to some company’s chatbot yesterday that was just if/else powered. That sure was cumbersome to do. It couldn’t even tell me the company’s mailing address.

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      That’s when they don’t want you to bother them with shit you could’ve read on their website (or a more restricted FAQ), but also care about not telling you bullshit. So rather than going full AI with hallucinations and what not, they give you predetermined answers in a “friendly” AI-ish way.

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      I was forced to use bing while searching for some info on the internet, when I’d click on what looked like a useful result, I would instead get CoPilot slowly summarizing the info I needed back to me, and obscuring the source… Who the fuck though that was a good idea?

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    Yup. They don’t understand what it is or what it does. All they know is that it makes even dumber venture capitalists open their wallets.

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      The PR Marketing guys sure don’t, but the actual Machine Learning and AI computer scientists sure do!

      I’d wager a lot of marketing people only skim the basic surface of what it does and just plaster it to their supervisors without you know… working with the ACTUAL technical experts in that field.

      Plus they think the non techie is a dum dum who don’t know no better.

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    The answer to the original riddle is “Sure, can I have your phone to make a demonstration. Great. I’ll sell the phone and pen back as a package deal for $100.”

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      I always thought a good one was to put the pen in your pocket and refuse to give it back. Make him name his price. Clearly it’s yours, not his. Otherwise how could you sell it to him?

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    Classic MBA holders. They don’t understand where their companies profitably comes from and why, and are just trying to squeeze out profits. What parasites. Ah if I could deworm them. Individually. Up the butt kek. With actual dewormer. Maybe they’d get their act together.

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    Hey, just four days ago their selling point was that it had a rainbow on it.

    Anything to make a buck.

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    Remember when that janitorial company changed its name to include the term CRYPTO and it’s stock went through the roof and the SEC investigated them for fraud?

    I can’t find the story unfortunately

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    “It has a smooth finish, virtually indestructible, and it writes upside-down.” [None of these will be true] “Also, with our Ink Anytime subscription service, you’ll never run out of ink! It’s free…” [for the first six months] “for our lowest tier…” [three lines of text per day] “with an option to upgrade to a higher tier anytime.” [Puts pen in pocket] “We’re offering pre-orders with a $5 non-refundable deposit, with delivery expected sometime in the next six months depending on how soon you get on the waitlist.” [Two years until you give up and just let us keep your deposit] “So sign up now!”