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I can't wait for the spectacular implosion

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

these are compute GPUs that don't even have graphics ports

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, my point is that the compute from those chips can still be used. Maybe on actually useful machine learning tools that will be developed latter, or some other technology which might make use of parallel computing like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm waiting on the a100 fire sale next year

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I know of at least one company that uses cuda for ray-tracing for I believe ground research, so there is definitely already some usefull things happening.

I mean there are a lot of applications for linear algebra, although I admit I don't fully know in what way "AI" uses linear algebra and what other uses overlap with it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering the "hallucinations" I've seen, they're definitely high something haha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

"Decepticons" is right there!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we call them autoplag(iarism) machines, much more honest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, that certainly applies to the most popular ones, but not necessarily true for all instances of these technologies.