Ai bubble

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New York stock exchange

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We used one to come up with a name for a feature cocktail at work. It's pretty good for that kind of stuff.

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That's the trick, people will always want shovels. Even after the gold rush ends, the only difference is demand for shovels goes back to normal, it doesn't disappear.

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You use it for pointers and double check the results.

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my only hope for AGI is that it gets open sourced and is easily runnable on sub $10,000 hardware.

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I had some files that i knew had duplicates, but didn't exactly match and whole the filenames were not identical, you could tell by looking if they were the same.

Would have been very tedious to do all of them, LLM was able to identify a "good enough" number of duplicates and only made a few mistakes. Greatly sped up the manual work required to clean up the collection.

But that's so far from most advertised scenarios and not compelling from a "make lots of money" perspective.

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It is a shock, but at least they received their money without being left holding the bag. They have a committed backlog over a year long, they seem to be avoiding manufacturing more than they have already sold ..

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Imagine how much more valuable alphabet stocks would be if they hadn't destroyed the core design and user experience of their search engine

Most of the current value of AI comes from the fact that Google is useless now.

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There are (non-AI) algorithms for that. Git uses one to detect renames. No need to melt the ice caps just for that.

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This was after applying various mechanisms of the traditional kind. Admittedly there was one domain specific strategy that want applied that would have caught a few more, but not all of them.

The point is that I had a task that was hard to code up, but trivial yet tedious for a human. AI approaches can bridge that gap sometimes.

In terms of energy consumption, it wouldn't be so bad if the approaches weren't horribly over used. That's the problem now, 99% of usage is garbage. If it settled down to like 3 or 4% of usage it would still be just as useful, but no one would bat an eye at the energy demand.

As with a lot of other bubble things, my favorite part is probably going to be it's life after the bubble pops. When the actually useful use cases remain and the stupid stuff does out.

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Pop that bastard asap

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What I fear is, with Elongated Muskrat being dangerously close to the government and being invested in AI, we will get them immediately bailed out and/or consolidated into even less hands, even more deregulations, and maybe even some changes to copyright so it will expcilitly will allow not only the training on such material, but also the copyrighting of the output of generative AI.