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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Bye bye XBox ._.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So you're saying we wont have any crowdsourced blockchain Web 2.0 AIs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Please, stay with the time. We're at Web 6.0 already.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (6 children)

"Built to do my art and writing so I can do my laundry and dishes" -- Embodied agents is where the real value is. The chatbots are just fancy tech demos that folks started selling because people were buying.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Eh, my best coworker is an LLM. Full of shit, like the rest of them, but always available and willing to help out.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (81 children)

There is this seeming need to discredit AI from some people that goes overboard. Some friends and family who have never really used LLMs outside of Google search feel compelled to tell me how bad it is.

But generative AIs are really good at tasks I wouldn't have imagined a computer doing just a few year ago. Even if they plateaued in place where they are right now it would lead to major shakeups in humanity's current workflow. It's not just hype.

The part that is over hyped is companies trying to jump the gun and wholesale replace workers with unproven AI substitutes. And of course the companies who try to shove AI where it doesn't really fit, like AI enabled fridges and toasters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Goldman Sachs, quote from the article:

“AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn’t designed to do.”

Generative AI can indeed do impressive things from a technical standpoint, but not enough revenue has been generated so far to offset the enormous costs. Like for other technologies, It might just take time (remember how many billions Amazon burned before turning into a cash-generating machine? And Uber has also just started turning some profit) + a great deal of enshittification once more people and companies are dependent. Or it might just be a bubble.

As humans we're not great at predicting these things including of course me. My personal prediction? A few companies will make money, especially the ones that start selling AI as a service at increasingly high costs, many others will fail and both AI enthusiasts and detractors will claim they were right all along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Like what outcome?

I have seen gains on cell detection, but it's "just" a bit better.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The part that is over hyped is companies trying to jump the gun and wholesale replace workers with unproven AI substitutes. And of course the companies who try to shove AI where it doesn't really fit, like AI enabled fridges and toasters.

This is literally the hype. This is the hype that is dying and needs to die. Because generative AI is a tool with fairly specific uses. But it is being marketed by literally everyone who has it as General AI that can "DO ALL THE THINGS!" which it's not and never will be.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

This is easy to say about the output of AIs.... if you don't check their work.

Alas, checking for accuracy these days seems to be considered old fogey stuff.

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