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Yup I agree with all this and LLM's defnitely aren't a substitute for learning - and the examples you gave are a much better way of explaining it. I have heard it called a force multiplier - they help you make the most of the skills you already have, which is crucial for people in a small business who could do a lot of the jobs they need to succeed but either lack the time or can't afford to pay someone else. If you don't have those skills to begin with there is nothing to multiply. I watched a video...

Just wanted to highlight the comment about "unless you're already an experienced programmer". I think the greatest illusive use case of the recent AI boom is the notion of "use our LLM and instantly become a pro at X", where X is some skill previously gained thru persistent effort and time spent learning. The LLMs definitely help me be more productive but this is usually because (1), I'm using the LLM to help to perform a task in the quadrant of knowledge of "things I know that I know", or (2), I'm doing a search to find information that might...

IME a Copilot chatbot might do 80% of your task in 20% of your time, but you'll be then spending 200+% of your time figuring out where those 20% are and fixing them manually anyway.

The "downhill mountain biking" "category" being half gravel, road and motorcycles simply reinforces the notion that there's nobody at the wheel at youtube. And why would there be? Automation (and/or pushing the burden on to everyone else) is the only way modern tech companies can be profitable businesses. Youtube doesn't let us see our list of blocked channels any more, presumably it was becoming embarrassing. You can clear the list, but you can't see it. Mine would be more than a thousand channels so far, if I had to guess, and still grows daily.

"But AI can be used to maximise productivity and deal with the repetitive inefficient tasks that small company either wastes a lot of time on. Its not hard to use it only when and where needed and save your time and energy for the actual creative and skilled tasks" Can you give some some examples? And will they remain cost-effective solutions when the generative AI companies start charging users what it actually costs to run the systems?

Not a company, but I'm starting to get some MTB AI slop in my youtube feed, when so far it was only related to cars (a much larger audience). I wonder if we're gonna reach a point where the internet is just useless slop with some actual informations here and there

It's been mostly useless slop for at least several years. There's been some good articles on Ars Technica & the like on how Google's lack of care on their part to fight SEO results gaming, focus on maximizing number of sold ads (even if they're on slop sites), and lately the AI summaries (which just recycle the slop) are to blame for the enshittification of the internet. It's pretty telling that what was once the gold standard of search is now the worst user experience if you care about getting useful information. There is apparently looming tension because if they...

Local (most popular) marketplace/"ebay" website:

I'd almost rather see AI marketing than whatever the hell 'meme-based marketing' Ari is doing... As well as the content stealing 'marketing' that kids Cased.US protection brand is using. That's REALLY suspect lol. Just posting known viral stuff like Hart's 2011 run or Gwin's chainless run to get views... For a brand neither are associated with. It's really weird and like... I mean somebody owns those rights (Red Bull? WBD?) so also illegal I'd assume lol But ya the incoming strategy of putting in in effort and effectively stealing other peoples ideas/content for marketing is very wack and is a...

Funny this thread just got bumped; I published my thoughts moments ago // Substack Link In short, I think the outdoor industry (and MTB specifically) is going to be a fascinating litmus test for generative AI content. My hunch: outside of press releases, which were already tough enough to read, the “AI slop” will get rejected hard. Push too far over the line, and it could actually damage a brand, almost like a form of digital doping. That said, smart companies will find ways to use AI subtly, stretching the mileage of a single photoshoot, or quickly testing campaign variations...

I've got 500km on my RM Instinct SL C90 now and I've been having a blast on this thing. I wasn't sure at first if adding an E bike was the right move for me, but I like having a garage full of bikes anyway. I did put about 200km on a GASGAS Enduro 3.0 before getting this bike, getting my feet wet in the Emtb world. Just did the update from Rocky as well, and I have been having such a blast on this bike, it's incredible to me. I still put more miles on my Analog bike, but...

I can only think of one explanation: there are common components (like connectors and controllers for example) that weigh the same for each size of battery (since they are weighing the battery as a whole and not just the energy cells). So that "fixed" weight stays the same as you add cells, meaning it becomes a smaller part of the total battery weight - and so the energy density of the battery as a unit increases.

Graphs aside, 6.06kg for full power and 900wh battery is really good. The DJI is 6.26kg and 800wh. Levo gen3 is 7.55kg for 840wh.

These guys learning from the likes of NVIDIA how to make a graph look impressive. "Start the X-axis at, say, 170 so our bar looks 3-times as long as the competition's"

This might be a bit pedantic but by default, MS Word turns spaced hyphens into en dashes (–) rather than em dashes (—). By default it will turn two consecutive unspaced hyphens into an em dash, but if you type like that you probably intended it to do so.