Gregory's ServerThe way AI fans keep having to say “AI is not going away” makes me think there’s absolutely a chance it might go away.
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  @baldur starting to feel like AI is like 3D movies. Remember those? They keep trying to make 3D movies happen, but actually most of the time you don't need it and 2D movies are just easier.  @fennix @baldur LLMs is where the hype is, and where the utility currently is most dubious. And I think that's connected: you can't hype a technology that is already here and delivering - you know what it does. Tech in its infancy is still unclear what it can do, so people are free to fill in the gaps with their imagination. And selling fantasy generates a lot more hype than reality.  @baldur echoes of HODL because WAGMI (Hold On for Dear Life because We're All Gonna Make It)  @baldur @baldur And carefully clean my Avatar 3D blu-ray disc so my grandchildren can inherit it after I die. "Did you know that AI model chum is up four hundred percent for the year ending 2024? If these trends continue... eyyyyy."  #AI is a large discipline that has been around for 70 years. It's not going anywhere. I work for #Siemens and we use AI in many ways, and have done for 30 years. For example: to predict when machines are likely to fail, to have parts ordered, and available just when they are needed, to help manage factories more efficiently. The amount of data now available from the Internet of Things (IoT) means we can use AI to learn about patterns in data that we didn't previously know existed.  there's that kind of two-way thing where when the hypers say "AI" they mean a particular thing, and so do the detractors. We use some AI (ML, OCR) stuff in work, and it's all of tried-and-tested variety, a lot like what you refer to. But when someone says "AI can fuck off" I assume they mean "as sold and operated by OpenAI and friends"  @davey_cakes @pete @baldur Remember “algorithms” from 10-15 years ago? “AI” is just those things. Maybe more souped up. They are even trying to sell predictive policing “AI” tools these days. Credit where it's due, this time it uses enough energy to melt the moon and is based on IP theft. That's new-ish. @baldur if they do not find a way to make it more error prone (which they wont), it will go away, but it will do A LOT of damage first. maybe that damage is part of their calculation, but that thought leads into conspiracy worlds. @baldur I recently heard the first company advertising (it was a radio commercial) with the fact that if you contact their customer services you get to speak to a real human being, rather than an AI bot. This, to me, is an indication that the AI hype is over the hill.  @baldur I have several genuinely useful LLMs on a USB stick now, that happily run on my laptop. Llama 3.1 8B and 70B are two of them You could shut down every existing model and I’d still be able to get some use out of those |
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