I can't wait for the spectacular implosion
But they got an MKBHD ad. Surely MKBHD would not deceive everyone.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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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.
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.
these are compute GPUs that don't even have graphics ports
I might want an ai on my computer, but only if it is a local, open source model that does not report any kind of data to outside parties in any way.
If that were the case, and it was something I chose, I certainly wouldn't mind it anywhere near as much - but the ones being forced upon you by every tech company alive right now are none of those things, and are all data harvesters disguised as utilities.
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.
we call them autoplag(iarism) machines, much more honest
Yes, that certainly applies to the most popular ones, but not necessarily true for all instances of these technologies.
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
I for one can't wait for Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) to do a feature length deep dive takedown of it soon :D
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
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.