Gregory's Server"AI" is really the new "blockchain" in how every company is trying to hit the buzzword bingo with it right now.
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    @Gargron  @Gargron unsurprisingly, people need a new usecase for the truckload of Nvidia cards they bought 🤷  @Gargron I’m still Facebook friends with a kid from my high school that was big into hocking NFTs and crypto a couple summers ago. Now he’s selling “ChatGPT consulting sessions”. I don’t wanna call anyone a charlatan, but… @Gargron (I think it’s just the Gen Z version of selling Herbalife pyramid scheme products)  @samhenrigold @Gargron I’m sure we’ll soon see ChatGPT life coaches posting like crazy on LinkedIn soon.  sam henri gold, clearly he's doing it to recoup his losses from the NFT bubble going bust  We already had something that turned text prompts into art, it was called paying an artist. Lost in jargon: (normaly "to be honest" - does not seem to make an awful lot of sense here... so what does it mean?) Okay, got the meaning, but what does "tbh" stands for literally then - I mean: "truth be hold", "tenfold bigger honesty" or "thats bexactly hright"... (LOL) @Ann_Effes The literal meaning of "tbh" in "this tbh" is still "to be honest," but this usage is meant to emphasize agreement. @Ann_Effes @amateur_ninja Every time someone says "to be honest," I cringe and really hope I haven't been told all lies up to this very moment, when truth-telling became necessary to somehow being emphasized.😉  @Gargron People hate artists though. Individuals love specific artists, and society loves art, culture, entertainment... But at some point as it scales, the collective agrees to treat artists like absolute dogshit. Perhaps it's because creators evoke strong emotions, and we naturally dislike more stuff than we like...  @Gargron This was also more environmentally friendly. Even if the artist used Mastodon.
@infiniterecursion You don't hire an orchestra to create new music. You hire a composer. @infiniterecursion @Gargron you hire an artist to MAKE art. You don’t have to pay to VIEW art. You’d only hire a musician if you wanted a custom song.   @Gargron and we already had a way to host apps on the Internet, but AWS still killed thousands of companies for no actual productivity gain.  @Gargron so gig workers are what you support? Artist need more support than a possible future commercial transaction. @Gargron I find it quite amusing that there are now so many ML-generated images, that image-generation ML models are now trained partly with ML-generated images. @Gargron I'm personally waiting for the dot-com-esque AI bubble to come crashing down with baited breath @Gargron There are similarities in people's lemming behavior but also important substance differences that are good for the #opensource community to keep in mind. Blockchain architectures typically target problems that could be solved with slightly less decentralized / automated designs if people really wanted to. In contrast, "AI" is a class of useful algorithms (LLM) cleverly packaged to be seen as something magical. But they already solve something fairly practical, its not 100% hype. @Gargron @thisismissem except not every company joined the web3 blockchain trend… noone is particularly skeptical about the value of AI  @thisismissem @Gargron I think some people expected magic from AI but many understand it will still require engineering to build something good. Most AI applications are thin wrappers today. Still early days in LLM capabilities and techniques. Every CEO is talking about using AI internally or in their product. At least 100x more than were interested in the previous trend. @jayatid yeah, but so far AI has just been a catch-phrase trend, some companies employing "AI" for investor dollars, were recently found out just to be using poorly paid labour from less economically strong parts of the world. Most “AI" that's being spoken of now is just simplistic machine learning models or database queries, not, y'known Artificial Intelligence. It's a trend, and there's a lot of bull and snake oil out there. @Gargron@mastodon.social Didn't we have an AI hype train already a while ago?  @Gargron And the default assumption should now be that any company talking about "AI" is as (dis-)honest as Sam Bankman-Fried. @cstross @Gargron Everything involving software has to be judged against snake-oil and mountebankery. Almost all “move fast and break things” big ideas are little more than venture-capital money pits. (The reason? Cutting corporate taxes cut the need for well-funded R&D. Leaving us with stock buy-backs and a flock of amateur cranks and crackpots telling stories to rich friends.) @Gargron I was thinking exactly that yesterday, driving on Highway 80 through downtown San Francisco. The billboards along there are a spotlight on Silicon Valley's psyche. For a while it was all about cloud, then data, then blockchain, then weed delivery. Right now it's AI alley. That piece of freeway is an up-to-the-minute news bulletin on what the VCs are funding.  @Gargron well, companies like splunk or dynatrace are making great products for operation departments, using this. I would say, the blockchain was much worst. @Gargron Blockchain was a hype but AI is different in many ways, for example that people can and do use it massively (ChatGPT etc.)  @ErikJonker @Gargron It does have a more general interactive response, but does it make it less of a hype? Look, I agree that there is an interesting functional element to using adaptive statistical algorithms combined with recognition routines and large databases. However, exactly the part where this general interaction takes place, it’s nothing more than the magic of it rendering revenue for the owners. Especially for generating content/narratives/products it’s BS based on stolen goods/ideas. @Gargron And just like bingo, not everyone yelling "AI" has a winning card. It's not about the buzzword, it's about the genuine innovation behind it. 🤖  @Gargron both are cool, both are overhyped in their present state, both have capitalist overlords drooling, both have emotionless cringelords as their spokespeaple/idols, both should be heavily regulated, both can be leveraged by individuals/communities for good things, both can never replace artists or individuals but can augment abilities and/or make up for a lack of ability in one/more areas, ... @Gargron it's all statistics. That's literally what it is  @Gargron its a dying fad. In reality, its just a thin veneer put up over the cruel machine of capitalism to make it seem trendy and hip to be exploited. You thought the blockchain died a miserable death being the pyramid scheme of useless tech, watch how hard AI falls, especially in this economy. @Gargron although a hype it has definitely more substance than blockchain ever had.  @Gargron I'm waiting for "ai powered blockchain cryptocurrency" (please happen I really want to see the robot running it randomly decide to donate 100% of the techbros' money to a random guy in Pennsylvania or something) @Gargron And rebrand services they already provide as “AI.” Feedly was one and all several on here were like “boycott Feedly, they’ll help snuff out labor strikes!” Not realizing most large companies and organizations have security that monitors situations around the world to try and keep their employees and assets safe. Or that Feedly already did that service long before it called it “AI.”  @Gargron I do programming at a health insurer and members of my team had great ideas about portability and data integrity based on using blockchain in claims processing. Those seem to have evaporated, there's no institutional interest in it. AI, and the prospect of it replacing *us* is very exciting for the executive folks. I haven't quite figured out why though, since none of the LLM stuff seems to be getting any more accurate at referring to reality. @Gargron Blame the moronic venture capitalists that salivate over buzzwords like this. Proof that smarts doesn't equal wealth. @Gargron What do both have in common? They are both solutions looking for a problem. #AI #MisnomerOfTheCentury @Gargron like dr. gilbert ryle, i do not agree that it is like "buzzword bingo" (i.e., "merely an assemblage of particular mistakes" or "buzzwords") but rather "one big mistake"; namely, a category-mistake, which is still a workable critique as more recent expositors of ryle's work have noted.  @Gargron Sounds like AI is a corporate revolution, which if won would result in employee diminution, which has not been entirely successful-to date.. @Gargron I'm really eager for the VCs to move on to the next big thing so we can get back to using AI for appropriate use cases rather than jamming it into everything we do    @Gargron It should be everyone’s job to make it a toxic buzzword like all those that came before. We can NFT this bitch. @Gargron And it’s being covered by journalists through the same panacea lens. We’ve learned nothing. @Gargron At work, we're getting pressure to 'use more ai' and 'do something innovative with ai'. Turns out all our clients are asking about it, and we're being regarded as not as good as competitors because we're 'not using ai', so we're just supposed to shoehorn it in somehow. We're actually using machine learning in several areas, but apparently ai now means chatbots and generative art.  @Gargron AI is a tool that is not too different from the earlier models. More cpu/gpu power. A big data mining available for the big private collectors such as meta, ms, alphabet etc. it’s useful and important but not how is being told and sell … but it’s interesting i/o refined to generate a program :) |
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