• @bandwidthcrisis
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    4810 months ago

    Why is there this push to use AI everywhere when it’s so resource-heavy? What do Google, MS etc gain?

    • @0oWow
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      3310 months ago

      Data mining.

      • @bandwidthcrisis
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        310 months ago

        I wonder how it can be worth the extra cost on CPU/GPU time, compared to search of mail.

        I might type “best value Jacuzzi” into Google, but “write a python script to sort numbers”, or “write a message sounding like I’m actually sorry to not go to someone’s party”, or “this sentence is a lie” into an AI.

        I can only see one of those being valuable.

    • yeehaw
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      2810 months ago

      This AI “revolution” has me so turned off. “hi there, here at coffee shop X we use"AI”". Um. Ok. Neat. Does it do anything different?

      Even Chatgpt is hit and miss. I’m not buying into this AI thing until we have cylons.

    • @[email protected]
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      1610 months ago

      It doesn’t actually need to make money at the moment, just drive value for shareholders.