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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're saying this as if no progress is being made. Shit is scary. They're researching at an alarming pace how to eliminate thought-based work, and only a few years in they are like maybe a third or halfway there.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Theres a weird quirk of AI haters who can only see the flaws and cant see how incredible its got out of nowhere. Like yes its got limits and problems and it may never be actually truly useful, but compare what we have now to what we had 10 years ago...whats it gonna be in another 10?

[–] ell1e@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

LLMs seem likely to be dead end for any logical thought: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/ This means at the end of the day you just get a sloppy illusion with no useful coherence as soon as it exceeds the complexity of a literal lazy copy&paste job: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

There is currently no technological innovation to fix this. Instead, AI progress seems to be stalling: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/experts-concerned-ai-progress-wall

Therefore, it's not naive to assume it may go nowhere until proven otherwise.