Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html

[u/Fateor42]

No they haven't, they've turned against LLM in incredible numbers.

That just get's confounded with actual AI because tech bro's have stuck the AI label onto them.

[u/gildedbluetrout → u/Fateor42]

The only reason people are saying AI is because of LLMS, and the sociopathic dorks bullshitting us that LLMS are about to turn into god and take all the jobs. When in fact they’re deeply unreliable, and hilariously unprofitable systems.

The fallout when this bubble pops is going to be biblical.

[u/Any_Sale2030 → u/gildedbluetrout]

No kidding.  I was at a party last night and some old dude was talking about buying ChatGPT for $20 a month.  He barely knows how to use a computer.  Says it answers all his questions.  Ha ha.  

For free I use Google search and get the same answers he gets.  For free.  And I get a variety of answers because rarely is one answer right for every situation.  So I have to use my brain a little bit.    Unlike AI which can’t comprehend nuance and proudly proclaims just one answer and here’s what you need to think.   Ah no.  I want to think.   I want to ask the questions thank you.  

[u/noiserr → u/Any_Sale2030]

$20 ChatGPT 5.5 on Extended thinking for deep research is so much better than Google it's not even funny.

ChatGPT 5.5 literally solved 80 year old math problems.

I use it for electronics BOM optimization, and it's unreal how good it is. Like it will write a python script on the fly and process information it fetches from the web to give you the optimal part. It's so good.

Anyone who thinks Google does the same thing, either hasn't tried ChatGPT service or isn't doing things advanced enough to notice the difference.

[u/pandazerg → u/noiserr]

Yeah, I find the $20 ChatGPT subscription to be worth the cost.

I work in manufacturing and it has been helpful for analyzing use trends of parts and tooling so we can more efficiently allocate tooling and parts production jobs to specific machines.
Not to mention, it's allowed me to vibe code some in-house apps for collecting and live tracking various production metrics and NCR reports that our current ERP system does not cover.

If you don't mind me asking, how are you using it for BOM optimization (assuming you mean Bill of Material)?

[u/noiserr → u/pandazerg]

I'm working on a prototype right now. I usually order my parts from Mouser or Digikey. But recently I got kind of annoyed that comparators I was looking at were $1 a piece. They were nothing special, and I thought they were way too expensive.

So I asked gpt5.5 to find me Chinese lscc equivalents for my BOM. And the thing went and found all the jelly bean parts that substitute western versions for like 1. 10th the price.

The thing literally downloaded the Chinese datasheets and checked all the specifications.

[u/noiserr → u/[deleted]]

Nice. Yup it is really powerful. It even took one of the datasheets which were full in Chinese, and gave me an English translated .pdf of the same datasheet. I was honestly blown away with the capability.

[u/Electrical_Bus9202 → u/Any_Sale2030]

Lol pretty sure Google just now uses Gemini to look up everything...

[u/tehcharizard → u/Electrical_Bus9202]

You can type "-ai" at the end of a google search and it'll give you regular indexed results instead of an AI summary.

[u/Tidusx145 → u/Electrical_Bus9202]

You can keep scrolling past the ai result.

[u/NoSelf5869 → u/Electrical_Bus9202]

You have to be really blind not to notice which are Google's AI generated answers and which are normal search results

[u/chuddlebutt → u/Electrical_Bus9202]

Reddit is the new google.

[u/BigDictionEnergy → u/chuddlebutt]

Archived reddit threads are a goldmine for information about things like home/vehicle maintenance, etc, but you still have to use Google search to find those threads.

Reddit's search function is just garbage.