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Another hi tech, inaccessible, centralized (cause most don't have resources to do it) food production thing that is still so expensive it can't break profit, and due to sterile environment it needs, likely never will.

Even if it would, it still would be a luxury alternative most people can't afford. I guess better than killing animals ethically, but not the kind of vibe we need to cultivate in food production.

This article goes more in depth debunking it:

https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/

I was originally very interested on this topic as I went vegan like 9 years ago. More I have been following it, sillier it seems.

Afaik some were using gov emails but that's not majority. Not a psyop, just dumbasses

Techno fix for a solved problem. Just eat plants.

Much more reasonable than that other larger AI scenario piece that has been going around recently

Mfw I have been gooning for free all these years

People who think you need to have optimist outlook of the future to be able to somehow manifest that into being are fucking idiots. I can enjoy my life, while being pretty hopeless about the future for human race, while still trying to do whatever I can to try to make things better.

If you can't do whatever you believe is right, because you are "pessimistic" about it working the way you want, then in my opinion you have fundamentally flawed view of the life as a whole, and probably don't know how to deal with negative emotions in a healthy way.

"We act because we have values, not because we know that our actions will definitely succeed"

-Jem Bendell.

And on topic of resiting tech, I work in IT and have more versatile tech skills than most people I know. Show me something that works and is useful, and I won't resist it just because it is new. But if you keep trying to sell me bullshit disguised as progress, than I will always tell you to fuck off.

If your AI product doesn't get mass adoption because of my negativity, then it is a shit product.

Comparisons in the article are also stupid. Sure I don't like coal used over nuclear, but nuclear is also kinda overhyped tech, that has been given so much benefit of doubt, but failed to deliver. Sure there has been some people who are irrationally afraid of it.

"Countries such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Thailand have run from vapes – outlawing them, while permitting traditional tobacco cigarettes for 1.8 billion of their citizens. Better unsafe than sorry."

Not a cigarette fan, but harder to ban those at this point, but with vapes it is still doable, and if not to protect peoples health, then maybe to avoid e-waste from disposable vapes.

"In the US, Robert F Kennedy Jr runs from vaccines towards natural herd immunity – although he might be having second thoughts now that the risks have become less abstract." Sure use antivaxxer idiot as an example of a tech critic, instead of anyone credible.

Same with 5G, sure there are conspiracy theories about it, but how about just asking wtf we need that fast internet for everywhere? For my phone use past 50 megabytes it doens't really make any difference if it gets faster.

"Stories that don’t make us forget that brain chips can liberate paraplegics, robot dogs can protect us from landmines, AI can prevent super bugs and VR can connect us rather than cut us off from reality – even if their vibes are “a bit Black Mirror”."

This last sentence really revealed the author as a tech bro. -Superbug thing is overhyped, they had used same AI for previous similar study, giving AI extra context that made it easier to solve that. Still impressive, but not representative of AI as a whole.

-VR is the rich kid of tech, always given money and second chance and always fails to deliver anything useful.

-Robot dogs and landmines, really? How about police using robot dogs to target protestors? Much more likely scenario for most people, and we already have used robots to defuse bombs for a long while now.

-Brain chips might liberate paraplegics and then company goes bust or stops supporting the product, re disabling that person. Has already happened with other tech meant to help disabled people. If I had to choose between neuralink (or anything from Musk) and being wheelchair bound for rest of my life, I would still take the latter.

I always consider both good and bad sides of tech, but most of the tech we are hyping now seems to come more down than upsides tbh.

/rant but this article really annoyed me.

Seems like it is Android emulator only? I'm able to run browser use on my gaming pc (7900xtx) and still all models I'm able to load are either too slow or too unreliable.

While some models theoretically run on android phone, can't see them being any use for this application. Maybe if it could connect to local ollama server etc?

I spent quite while trying different models with browser use, and wasn't convinced by that yet, even though it occasionally got the task done.

Cool project nevertheless.

Also on topic of browser use, all examples seem to be mostly "go somewhere and automatically order me stuff". Even with really good reliability, why the fuck would I automate buying anything? It's good thing, that it takes few moments to do your food delivery order, at least some time to reconsider possible impulse buying, in an app that is already designed to be gamified and addictive.

I tried to set browser use to look up job postings, but none of the multi modal local models handled websites in my local language.

Bullshit advertising is not news

enhance security and user experience. How about they go fuck themselves to improve my user experience?

Weird hill to die on, gn.

Comment was about as shallow as the article, so only fitting. It just listed same talkikg points, that are common in AI critique, didn't even present those particularly well, didn't bring anything new to the convo.

I would had been all in on reading actually decent in depth AI critique.

But this was just "top 10 talking points for AI haters we can hate together". I'm a AI hater but I don't want to read low quality junk media that just confirms my bias without nuance.

Worm weapons were easiest way to actually kill yourself in that game. Agreed.