• @HailSeitan
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    4 hours ago

    “[Generative AI] is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.”

    I love Ed so much.

  • @[email protected]
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    64 hours ago

    This is the thought I’ve had too. This stuff takes a ridiculous amount of energy and energy costs money. Ah but they’re going to build big nuclear plants! But thos cost money to build and you have to pay nuclear engineers a lot of money to run them and buy the uranium… it’s going to cost a lot of money.

    They have to figure out how to get it to 1/1000 of the cost it currently is to make any money off of it. They’ll need to cut so many corners that it probably not be much good at anything.

    It’ll probably just used for big “data driven” corporations to use to analyze our data to try to figure out how to sell products that barely anyone can afford.

  • @MrJgyFly
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    44 hours ago

    Stellar read. So OpenAI et al keep going at the current rate, and there’s never any profit—when does it burst? How spectacular does it burst? Or will we simply have laid off a significant portion of the tech workforce and then it fizzles away?

  • @yesman
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    2210 hours ago

    The money in AI is going to be the wages of the people it replaces. Those tech billionaires call it a revolution because getting labor without wages is the promised land for cunt billionaires.

    The AI revolution is here because that’s what the owners want. If you think they’ll wait until the AI is as good as humans to replace humans I’ll point out that self-checkout already exists.

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat
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      11 hour ago

      The big problem here is that it’s simply not reliable enough to replace a worker because you have to have the AI running unsupervised to actually replace anyone and it can’t be done with the current technology and something that can actually replace workers is not coming in the next 5 years or so and I’m being generous.

    • @[email protected]
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      179 hours ago

      Thing is, it doesn’t replace workers. And it won’t for the foreseeable future. Even Microsoft itself had to admit that their studies show AI assisted coding to be bad and making developers worse.

      There is hardly any market where these systems can reasonably compete with exploited humans. It’s just that the tech bros have nothing left to invest in. The same idiots that pushed crypto, NFTs and the Metaverse are now pushing for AI. There is hardly any innovation anymore, so the only ways to make line go up are rent seeking and investing in bubbles in the desperate attempt, that something might stick.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat
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        11 hour ago

        It seems like we have a problem where there’s too much money at the top of society that’s trying to chase returns that can’t exist because there’s enough money at the bottom to buy products, so it just gets invested in bad ways. This will probably continue until they waste enough for their own money on bullshit that they no longer have it

        • @[email protected]
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          114 minutes ago

          You’re right in your analysis, but the prediction is wrong, I’m afraid.

          The next “big thing” is taking over the government. See Musk and his gang. He’s not alone and the US isn’t the only country this is happening in. Corporations inject themselves into each and every transaction, every aspect of life and politics. That way they have essentially infinite money at their hands.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 hours ago

        Not actually to discredit you, but I really would love to send some studies to some people I work; by any chance do you have the links to Microsoft studies

        • @[email protected]
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          89 hours ago

          Translation on a level an AI could do is already pretty cheap, nobody’s gonna throw a nuanced legal document at an AI and rely on it.

          Junior devs are much smarter than any current AI, because they know what they want to achieve and why. There’s a reason why all the demos are toy examples. Actual code is messy and full of quirks because of weird requirements.

          • @[email protected]
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            03 hours ago

            Junior devs are much smarter than any current AI, because they know what they want to achieve and why

            Oh sweet summer child

  • ugjka
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    3912 hours ago

    bring back 00’s google search that shit was smarter than any of these ais

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1811 hours ago

      Google Now and Google Inbox did stuff that’s beyond what can be achieved in AI in practice now. Both shut down due to being unprofitable XD

  • Optional
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    1811 hours ago

    OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users. Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI’s burn rate. This is not a real company.

    🔥

  • @TootSweet
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    2512 hours ago

    It’s almost as if the “aRtIfiCiAl iNtElLiGenCe” is as big a cult as blockchain is, isn’t it?

  • @[email protected]
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    1712 hours ago

    There could be an AI revolution. Send Elon and the rest of the billionaires into orbit, and they’ll revolve around the Earth; they’re all artificially intelligent, after all.

    • @db2
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      1012 hours ago

      I’d prefer that revolution be a decaying orbit around the sun.

      • Gormadt
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        1011 hours ago

        Hitting the sun is surprisingly difficult

        Launching into deep space knowing that they’ll never enter another star system on the otherhand…

        • @[email protected]
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          49 hours ago

          Look launching our billionaires into deep space is no better than interstellar littering.

          We should be better than that.

          I bet we could launch them into Jupiter or Saturn no problems.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 hours ago

        I mean, I never said anything about space suits or capsules, so the destination could be wherever!

  • @kitnaht
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    Those GPUs to run the AI? Still cheaper than wages! And I’ve met plenty of people in my life that were far dumber than a small LLM.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 hours ago

      No, they are not. Why do you think there’s not a single AI company that’s making a profit from an actual product/service? The only ones with a real business plan are nvidia and other shovel merchants.