I can’t wait for the spectacular implosion

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    I think AI tools have (and will have) their uses, but AI as a whole has been hyped up so much for so long now that the bubble is bound to burst sooner or later.

    And when it does, hopefully we can go back to not having AI shoved into every fucking thing imaginable…

    No I don’t want an AI on my phone or computer trawling through all my data for you, just to give me some handy search feature I almost certainly won’t use.

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      I expect a creative destruction, like what happened with the dotcom bubble. A ton of GenAI companies will go bust and the market will be flooded with cheap GPUs and other AI hw which will be snapped on the cheap, and enthusiasts and researches will use them to make actually useful stuff.

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          11 days ago

          Yes, my point is that the compute from those chips can still be used. Maybe on actually useful machine learning tools that will be developed latter, or some other technology which might make use of parallel computing like this.

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            I know of at least one company that uses cuda for ray-tracing for I believe ground research, so there is definitely already some usefull things happening.

            I mean there are a lot of applications for linear algebra, although I admit I don’t fully know in what way “AI” uses linear algebra and what other uses overlap with it.

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      They are neat tools, if looked at realistically. They certainly don’t deserve to be called AI. I like to call them High Coherence Media Transformers.

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      AI has already taken tens of thousands of jobs. Which it’s not doing still.

      I hope all the creative teams that got sacked because the idiot CEO blew ten years worth of capital on an AI gamble hold out for C-suite pay to return.

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      The one thing LLMs will always be better at doing than humans is pattern detection.

      Incidentally, the best job suited to their capability to detect patterns in large amounts of data is doing what CEOs currently do

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    I for one can’t wait for Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) to do a feature length deep dive takedown of it soon :D

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      That’d be a lot nicer than Ed Zitron non-stop unthinking whiny critique. I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone I agree with being so unpleasant to listen to

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        don’t think I’ve ever heard someone I agree with being so unpleasant to listen to

        Sending this to EZ so that he can put it as his by-line

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        as someone who grew up in an “old timey” baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.

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          Yeah, preaching emotions over critical thought sounds like better offline. I literally cancelled my premium Spotify because they didn’t give me a way to stop that show from auto playing after behind the bastards

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              That Ed Zitron is unpleasant and Dan Olson would do a much better job making the same point. What is this “no you” that you’re trying to do? Ed Zitron isn’t trying to convince anyone, he’s just whining to people that already agree with him and I find it extremely unconstructive

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                  Because I’m whining to people that agree with me or something? I don’t know what you’re trying to say because not a lot of people seem to agree with me on this so that can’t be it

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                What is this “no you” that you’re trying to do?

                the penny’s never gonna drop, is it? let me save you the embarrassment

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        Not quite so familiar with this Ed Zitron individual myself, but I agree that critique is best served with precision, clarity, wit, charm, and style. When someone holds a rhetorical position that is correct with regard to reality but articulates said position very poorly, it does a disservice to the discourse at large.

        People (albeit foolishly) very well might reflexively adopt an objectively false stance JUST because they don’t want to agree with someone so disagreeable.

        Or in other words, sometimes nothing makes an idea sound worse than the enthusiastic support of a moron.

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    I thought we were supposed to get like protocol droids with AI. We just get protocols that steal all our data.