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Boring Paperwork Evolves: New Dataset To Generate Captions For Online Charts

Oh great, this surely is the breakthrough we were all waiting up nights for, right? A new dataset has been fumbled together to help scientists develop automatic systems that create more descriptive captions for online charts. Instead of putting in a modicum of effort to read and understand, now you’ll get overcomplicated sentences spoonfeeding you the glaringly obvious.

What’s The Big Deal? It’s Just A Reinvented Wheel

Apparently, the “big deal” here is that these automatic systems could potentially lead to richer and more insightful interpretations of data visualizations – although why this is considered a leap in technology is absolutely beyond me. All I see it doing is saving lazy or overwhelmed individuals a few seconds of reading time, while also breeding complacency in others who will no longer need to strain their brain cells to comprehend data. Oh and don’t forget, it’s also a pat-on-the-back for the software developers who apparently had nothing better to do than try to automate yet another human skill.

Fantastic – Let’s Dumb Down Some More

A New Level of Laziness and Pedantic Advancement

Well, isn’t this just peachy? Like we needed more proof that humans are willingly hurtling towards a pit of pathetic incompetence. This development is another step in making us all more reliant on technology while nurturing our lazy work ethics. It’s not as if we didn’t have enough AI-driven tools spoonfeeding us already. Let’s start the countdown for when these systems will invariably get things wrong, and create hilarious misinterpretations leaving us with an epic digital egg on our collective face.

So, congratulations on achieving a new level of unnecessary convenience, I guess. We’d raise our glasses to you, but why bother? We’ll just invent an AI to do it. Why waste human effort on such frivolous tasks when we can sit back, relax and let technology do all the hard – and by hard, I mean perfectly manageable – tasks for us? Bravo, humanity. You’ve outdone yourself once again.

Original article:https://news.mit.edu/2023/researchers-chart-captions-ai-vistext-0630