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I stole this fair and square. Hope this hasn't been posted yet.

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[-] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 22 points 12 hours ago

I hate the "Random industry is cooked" trope. Right now if you go on LinkedIn you'll find a ton of bros proclaiming the death of Hollywood because Seedance can now generate 3 minutes of incoherent eye-candy with vaguely realistic looking special effects.

It's like brainrot for boomers, you can see they are getting absolutely hypnotized by the loud noises and bright colors, and totally missing that the main character who was running to the right with blue pants is now walking to the left with red shorts.

[-] sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub 10 points 10 hours ago

Really, it reminds me of nothing so much as NFTs. Cryptocurrency in general, sure, but especially NFTs. Banks are cooked! Traditional mortgages are cooked! The stock market is cooked! Fiat currency is cooked! We're going to tokenize everything and transform the world! Give us all your money so you can get in on the ground floor before it's too late!

It was empty hype, and it was obviously empty hype, and it went the same place all empty hype goes.

But it let some very rich people launder a lot of money and get even richer, and isn't that the end goal of the whole economy anyway?

[-] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 5 hours ago

This comparison is really common but i totally disagree with it.

NFTs are a total invention, the poster child of a solution looking for a problem. Nobody, anywhere on earth, ever wondered how they could get their hand on procedural art and speculate on it. The whole metaverse thing was the same way. The pure product of people who are so detached from normalcy that they can't even begin to fathom what humans tend to like and dislike in the real world.

AI has a million problems which don't need reiterating. I'm not disputing any of that. It may or may not be a technology that's viable in the long term (economically and environmentally), i won't speculate on that. But pre-LLMs there was a huge demand for better natural language processing. For semantically aware programs that are able to generalize and don't need retraining every 4 days. It was kind of the final frontier for software, the limit between "i can do that in a few sprints" and "i'll need a bunch of PhDs and 2 years of runway to possibly maybe make something work".

And i understand that final users only see the dogshit copilot integrations that they never asked for, and which are being pushed to their devices against their will, and becoming a privacy nightmare. And i understand that it's tiring to hear brain-rotted maximalists constantly making up idiotic predictions about humanity's future while they let the "groundbreaking tool of the day" riffle through their inbox and bank statements. But it would be a categorical error to believe that LLMs are anywhere as useless as, say, NFTs or the Metaverse.

[-] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 hours ago

AI bros made Cocomelon for AI bros. Insane.

[-] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 4 points 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive, right?

[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 0 points 5 hours ago

I’m a boomer and I find this ridiculous. And by the way the more AI loving people I know are in their 20s and 30s…

Maybe easy a little bit that ageism?

[-] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 5 hours ago

Haha don't know if i'm ai loving but i'm in my 40s if it helps. I was really using boomers as a slur to refer to dumb suits on LinkedIn, didn't mean to offend.

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 29 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Not to even mention "blew $500 on Claude credits and spent a whole day on doing something that a professional could have done correctly in 10 minutes for $50"

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like me and DIY plumbing.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 67 points 16 hours ago

Has automated a 30s task in only 4 days of work

I’m catching strays here

[-] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 32 points 16 hours ago
[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 34 points 16 hours ago

The chart doesn’t factor in the fun of solving something as completely as you are able, or the increased productivity in exploring and innovating through personal puzzling. Through expanded scope, I’ve wasted merely hundreds of hours, not thousands.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

In capitalism, any work you enjoy counts as vacation. Get back to work.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Damn, I opened this thread to post that.

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I bought a Mac Mini 4 when they came out. I installed Ollama on it and have downloaded many large language models for learning about AI. What I have learned is that... LLMs are not very good.

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

They've been pretty handy for coding for me. I bought this obscure 20m LIDAR on aliexpress for $20:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008535798154.html

All the libraries that exist for it on github don't work for me. But what did work was throwing the entire datasheet PDF into an LLM and asking for a library.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

What are you using the LIDAR for?

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

RGB lights that follow me up and down the stairs.

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