AI needs to stop

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yes, we need to ask for AI's consent first!

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oh wait, i think i read it wrong

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People bitching about AI is so much more annoying than the presence of AI.

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"AI" isn't ready for any type of general consumer market and that's painfully obvious to anyone even remotely aware of how it's developing, including investors.

...but the cost benefit analysis on being first-to-market with anything even remotely close to the universal applicability of AI is so absolutely insanely on the "benefit" side that it's essentially worth any conceivable risk, because the benefit if you get it right is essentially infinite.

It won't ever stop

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But, but, but they want to sell as much of it as they can before the bubble bursts.

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Its not really targeting the consumers here, its just to impress investors with it

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Is there a way to fight back? Like I do t need Adobe in my Microsoft Word at work, can I just make a script that constantly demands AI content from it that is absolutely drivel, and set it running over the weekend while I'm not there? To burn up all their electricity and/or processing power?

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If only it were just AI...

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I was ok with crypto and nft because it was up to me to decide if I want to get involved in it or not.

AI does seem to have impact at jobs, at least employers are trying to use it and see if it actually will allow them to hire less staff, I see that for SWE. I don't think AI will do much there though.

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The thing is, we've had that sort of capability for a long time now, we called them algorithms. Rebranding it as ai is pure marketing bullshit

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I kind of like AI, sorry.

But it should all be freely available & completely open sourced since they were all built with our collective knowledge. The crass commercialization/hoarding is what's gross.

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To be fair, APIs have been around since the 70s,and are not trendy, they're just required to have a common interface for applications to request and perform actions with each other.

But yeah, AI is mostly trendy bullshit

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I like what we could be doing with AI.

For example there's one AI that I read about awhile back that was given data sets on all the known human diseases and the medications that are used to treat them.

Then it was given data sets of all the known chemical compounds(or something like that, can't remember the exact wording)

Then it was used to find new potential treatments for diseases. Like new antibiotics. Basically it gives medical researchers leads to follow.

That's fucking cool and beneficial to everyone. It's a wonderful application of the tech. Do more of that please.

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What you are talking about is machine learning which is called AI. What the post is talking about is LLMs which are also called AI.

AI by definition means anything that exhibits intelligent behavior and it is not natural in nature.

So when you use GMaps to find the shortest path between 2 points that's also AI (specifically called local search).

It is pointless to argue/discuss AI if nobody even know which type they are specifically talking about.

Klnsfw 🏳️‍🌈

And environmental cost.

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The issue is, people tend to overgeneralize and also get averted when some buzzword is repeated too much.

So, this negatively affects the entire field of any AI.

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I'm talking about AI in the context of this conversation.

I'm sorry it upsets you that capitalism has yet again redefined another word to sell us something else, but nobody here is specifically responsible for the language we've been given to talk about LLMs.

Perhaps writing to Mirriam Webster about the issue could reap the results you're looking for.

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Am I the only one who hates the way there's text that follows a circle but there's two of them and they don't follow the same circle?

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it's not up to you, it just failed before it could be implemented. many publishers already commit to in-game nfts before they had to back down because it fell apart too quickly (and some still haven't). if it held on for just a couple more years there wouldn't be a single aaa title that doesn't have nfts today.

crypto was more complicated because unlike these two you can't just add it and say "here, this is all tr crypto now" because it requires prior commitment and it's way too complicated for the average person.

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It's worse. The industry needs to entrench LLM and other AI so that after the bubble bursts it's so grafted info everything can't easily be removed, so afterwards everybody still needs to go past them and pay a buck.

Basically it's like a tick that needs to dig in deep now so you can't get rid of it later.