I think the hate needs to be properly directed towards the companies pushing it and not the tech itself. Because that’s pretty much here to stay.
And it does have good utility, in tailored ways wielded by people who know what they’re doing (e.g. you should be an experienced programmer already so you can catch when it’s fucking up or just doing things on a weird way)
Companies that use it over creatives (e.g. using it for ads or animation for a commercial product) can also fuck off and die
Some hate can be spared for ignorant assholes who push poor uses for the tech in the most dickhead way possible. The tech being “here to stay” does not mean the uses people think it has are. It will never be an authoritative source of info, nor can it be trusted to do most things people think it can. It can fill in for large scale data crunching that would not be possible otherwise, but it will always have significant uncertainty and lack of accountability that keep it from being an alternative to certain things.
I don’t agree with your stated premise that A.I. is here to stay. I’ve seen a lot of commenters use that sentence as if it were some kind of law of nature, with zero evidence to support it.
It might be true, but it could also be false. No one knows the future, but what I do know is that the A.I. we have (LLM) is propped up by enormous amounts of speculative funding that hasn’t come anywhere near being justified by commensurate profits. What about that business model says it will be around in the long term?
You’re still conflating the tech itself and business. The tech can exist without the business or without it being part of the core business model (Think, a smaller LLM to generate game dialogue (which imo (if done right) could be a very cool thing)) trained and shipped as part of a game
LLMs are here to stay, but when the bubble pops many MANY businesses will not survive as we all know. But every bubble has its survivors and those will be the ones that actually use it for proper use cases that can actually turn a profit or use it to support or enhance other features that are part of their product (and I’m sure a few giant ones will survive just because of their size, though they’ll be damaged)
There are also plenty of good open source LLMs that don’t depend on profits and business models, so that’s another reason LLMs are here to stay
Though they will evolve im sure, new research and techniques will come and make them more useful
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I think the hate needs to be properly directed towards the companies pushing it and not the tech itself. Because that’s pretty much here to stay.
And it does have good utility, in tailored ways wielded by people who know what they’re doing (e.g. you should be an experienced programmer already so you can catch when it’s fucking up or just doing things on a weird way)
Companies that use it over creatives (e.g. using it for ads or animation for a commercial product) can also fuck off and die
Some hate can be spared for ignorant assholes who push poor uses for the tech in the most dickhead way possible. The tech being “here to stay” does not mean the uses people think it has are. It will never be an authoritative source of info, nor can it be trusted to do most things people think it can. It can fill in for large scale data crunching that would not be possible otherwise, but it will always have significant uncertainty and lack of accountability that keep it from being an alternative to certain things.
I don’t agree with your stated premise that A.I. is here to stay. I’ve seen a lot of commenters use that sentence as if it were some kind of law of nature, with zero evidence to support it. It might be true, but it could also be false. No one knows the future, but what I do know is that the A.I. we have (LLM) is propped up by enormous amounts of speculative funding that hasn’t come anywhere near being justified by commensurate profits. What about that business model says it will be around in the long term?
You’re still conflating the tech itself and business. The tech can exist without the business or without it being part of the core business model (Think, a smaller LLM to generate game dialogue (which imo (if done right) could be a very cool thing)) trained and shipped as part of a game
LLMs are here to stay, but when the bubble pops many MANY businesses will not survive as we all know. But every bubble has its survivors and those will be the ones that actually use it for proper use cases that can actually turn a profit or use it to support or enhance other features that are part of their product (and I’m sure a few giant ones will survive just because of their size, though they’ll be damaged)
There are also plenty of good open source LLMs that don’t depend on profits and business models, so that’s another reason LLMs are here to stay
Though they will evolve im sure, new research and techniques will come and make them more useful