• Soapbox@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    Except that wheelchair looks like it would actually be fun to try. Unlike any AI chatbot I have heard of.

  • stinky@redlemmy.com
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    5 hours ago

    This criticism feels like it was created by someone who doesn’t understand modern software frameworks

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    15 hours ago

    So I’ve seen this one floating around before (not AI specific, just the wheelchair image). It’s not as weird as it may seem. There are a ton of people who have severe balance issues, blood pressure issues that cause fainting when standing, general muscle weakness that keep them from walking normally, and a whole host of other things that may prevent them from walking and balancing, but not from using something like that.

    My own mother required a wheelchair for the last 10 years of her life, but would have benefited from something like this immensely for the 10-15 years prior to that. She could use her legs, but she had serious trouble balancing, standing, and walking. She routinely used one of those under the desk bicycle things for years to keep her legs active. That motion wasn’t a problem for her. But she could only stand for a maximum of 1-2 minutes during that time in her life, or walk for about 50-70 feet at most around that time. Had we known about things like this, or thought to make our own, it may have extended her time moving around under her own power before having to go into the power wheelchair. It may even have extended her life by keeping her more active and healthy.

    Not trying to be a spoil sport, just putting it out there. Maybe it’ll make someone else consider something like this if they have a disabled person in their life that could benefit from it.

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        13 hours ago

        I had Microsoft Copilot rewrite this in the style of a LinkedIn in post for you:

        Yeah but why would you do that. Nobody wants that.

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          10 hours ago

          I do agree with you but have to note that this might be the most sensible use of Copilot I’ve seen so far.

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            4 hours ago

            It’s its default use case - adding MBA idiocy to things that were already fine and didn’t need changing.

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        13 hours ago

        I decided to burn a forest down and empty an aquafer for you. I hope you appreciate it!

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        11 hours ago

        I actually want to know why though, with no malice towards you. “In the style of a LinkedIn post” is so specific that I have to know how we got there.

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          6 hours ago

          This was a joke that (apparently) no one got about AI chatbots being shoehorned into products. I woke up to a bunch of downvotes, but I thought it was funny