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I love the detail that she put "+ AI" on both sides of the equation so that it's still technically correct regardless of what the AI stands for.
Sometimes it helps solve an equation by adding zero.
my funding = 0
= -100M + 100M
= (the money I'll never made back to the investors) + (the shit I'll blow on AC and top gaming computers and stuff)
I’m old enough to have gone through a number of these technology bubbles, so much so that I haven’t paid much attention to them for a fair while. This AI bs feels a bit different, though. It seems to me that lots more people have completely lost their minds this time.
Like all bubbles, this too will end up in the same rubbish heap.
That's because there's a non zero amount of actually functionality. Chatgpt does some useful stuff for normal people. It's accessible.
Contrast that to crypto, which was only accessible to tech folks and barely useful, or NFT which had no use at all.
Ok, I guess to be fair, the purpose of NFT was to separate chumps from their money, and it was quite good at that.
Can't believe I'm doing this... but here I go, actually defending cryptocurrency/blockchain :
... so yes there are some functionalities to AI. In fact I don't think anybody is saying 100% of it is BS and a scam, rather... just 99.99% of the marketing claims during the last decade ARE overhyped if not plain false. One could say the same for crypto/blockchain, namely that SQLite or a random DB or is enough for most people BUT there are SOME cases where it might actually be somehow useful, ideally not hijacked by "entrepreneurs" (namely VC tools) who only care about making money but not what the technology could actually bring.
Now anyway both AI & crypto use an inconceivable amount of resources (energy, water, GPU and dedicated hardware, real estimate, R&D top talent, human resources for dataset annotation including very VERY gruesome ones, etc) so yes even if in 0.01% they are actually useful one still must ask, is it worth it? Is it OK to burn literally tons of CO2eq ... to generate an image that one could have done quite easily another way? Summarize a text?
IMHO both AI & crypto are not entirely useless in theory yet in practice have been :
- hijacked by VCs and grifters or all kinds,
- abused by pretty terrible people, including scammers and spammers,
- absolutely underestimated in terms of resource consumption and thus ecological and societal impact
So... sure, go generate some "stuff" if you want to but please be mindful of what it genuinely costs.
There are pretty great applications in medicine. AI is an umbrella term that includes working with LLMs, image processing, pattern recognition and other stuff. There are fields where AI is a blessing. The problem is, as JohnSmith mentioned, it's the "solar battery" of the current day. At one point they had to make and/or advertise everything with solar batteries, even stuff that was better off with... batteries. Or the good ol' plug. Hopefully, it will settle down in a few year's time and they will focus on areas where it is more successful. They just need to find out which areas those are.
There are pretty great applications in medicine.
Like what? I discussed just 2 days ago with a friend who works in public healthcare, who is bullish about AI and best he could come up with DeepMind AlphaFold which is yes interesting, even important, and yet in a way "good old fashion AI" as has been the case for the last half century or so, namely a team of dedicated researchers, actual humans, focusing on a hard problem, throwing state of the art algorithms at a problem and some compute resources... but AFAICT there is so significant medicine research that made a significant change through "modern" AI like LLMs.
Possibly through ignorance or misunderstanding, btu I still think the tech behind NFTs may have some function, but it's certainly not the weird pictures of badly colored in monkeys speculation market that happened there.
It could potentially work for DRM, in that you can have a key assigned to an identity that can later be transferred and not be dependent on a particular marketplace.
For example, you could buy a copy of whatever next year's Call of Duty game will be, and have the key added to your NFT wallet. Then you could play it on XBox, Playstation, Steam, or GOG with that single license.
Of course that will never happen because that'd be more consumer friendly than we have now.
Basically functioning as a digital proof of purchase.
It seems to me that lots more people have completely lost their minds this time
That's not really an AI thing, that's just... everything.
The internet did not end up in the trash heap after the dot com bubble burst. Ai too has real world uses that go beyond the current planet wrecking bubble.
My company, while cutting back elsewhere, has dedicated a few million to AI projects over the next couple years. Not "projects to solve X business problem." Just projects that use AI.
So of course now, anything that is automated in any way is now being touted as AI. Taking data from one system and populating another? That's AI.
AI is such a loose term that calling anything with if-else statements “AI” wouldn’t be lying (I learned about decision trees in my university machine learning class and those are just giant nested if-else statements)
For anyone who thought this wasn't real, I present to you: https://xnote.ai/
Where can I get something like this minus any of the AI?
I would love to take handwritten notes and have them appear on my phone for safekeeping.
The world is curb stomping satire…
Lol pretty much
Taking data from one system and populating another? That’s AI.
Well, it is. You just have to go back enough in time to find the context when people still called it so.
Gotta use those automatic computers full of electronic brains to do all those tasks that used to take years on rooms full of people with chemical brains hired as computers!
cp, now with Al!
AI: "I know you typed cp, but I'm sure you meant rm..."
More like "cp? That's a violation of my ethical constraints and you have been reported to the authorities."
Really though, about a quarter of my work related coding queries come back with "redacted to meet responsible AI guidelines".
It's an AI specifically for code. Apparently it thinks half the stuff I do is hacking.
Microwave now with AI
I work in actual ML research and even I think it's stupid
This is exactly what my masters thesis feels like ATM, every attention is on all the AI crap also because the Uni gets grants ont the topic. Everything else just dies
E = mc² + AI
E+ai=mc^2^+ai Now good
It was equivalent from the start if we assume AI = 0
seeking for
- looking for
- seeking
You need to pick a lane, my dude.
multi-track drifting! also if you can understand another person, isn't that the whole point of communication?
Give me money. AI-AI-AI.
Reminds me of the insane LinkedIn post where a brilliant person was sharing their new equation which was essentially word + buzzword + AI.
Money me, money me now
Me now money give
AI in, AI out, simple math
You can't explain that.
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