What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?
What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?
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Uhhh,
Unlilke NFT's , AI is actually doing real things?!?
I'm mean, it's not replacing peoples jobs,
But I'm actively using it to remove noise, recognize objects, up-scaling, motion planning, create songs, create images, condense large amounts of text, christ, lots of actual useful tools....
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I’m mean, it’s not replacing peoples jobs
"UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges"
Used to be a real human would have to reject your claims.
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I mean, what's that got to do with anything?
NFT's were always useless.
AI however has tangible uses
Comparing the two is stupid.
Just because people are trying to use AI for dumb things they don't understand as per your example, doesn't negate the actual real world uses of AI.
Sure. Hate/Laugh and point fingers at ignorant people that don't understand the tech, attempt and fail to use it in certain ways.
But don't be more ignorant than those people by thinking AI as a technology in general is some kind of short term fad that's just going to disappear.
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I just gave an example of AI taking a human job.
To me it's one of the biggest dangers of AI. Not that it will take our jobs, but the harm it will do when it occasionally does. AI is a useful tool for people, absolutely. But dumb managers will think AI can replace entire jobs. And it will do those same jobs at a much much lower quality than even the lowest paid human would. With no room to talk to it and fix the problems like a normal human. We're already in a situation with Uber/DoorDash/etc. were the algorithm is the boss with no room to argue with it.
Like if you thought sweatshops produced low quality, wait until AI is running things. Quality control is out the window. And that's a feature as much as it's a bug.
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Great annecdotal fallacy you got there.
Doesn't change anything about their argument though
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Don't worry mate, you've just entered a left wing echo chamber, they'll still be here in a year or two going on about how the AI bubble is going to die any day now while the rest of the population is happily using it without an issue
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I mean, I was a massive AI enthusiast before the hype, playing with GPT-J, GAN models and such.
...And AI is definitely a bubble that's going to die. It's completely ridiculous.
It doesn't mean it will go away, but tech bros have hyped it way beyond what it actually is: a set of extremely useful tools.
You are kinda right, Lemmy (and the left wing) is pretty extreme on the machine learning hate, but "AI" is like 95% fud right now.
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Yeah... I think most people mistake hating ai from hating the way it is implemented.
There are plenty of really good reasons to hate ai for the way it is being implemented (plagiarism for one). Or shitty companies replacing good employees that do a better job than an ai just for cost saving (short term profit, shareholders above anything).
I believe ai can be usefull especially for doing menial repetitive tasks. And it should be possible to implement ai in an ethical way so it can benefit anyone and not just leech.
But currently big tech is implementing it in a shitty way and they will find a way to enshittify ai (just like they did with social media).
Everyone is being lured in with "free" queries and when everyone is "addicted" and all of the competition has either gone bankrupt or bought they'll start charging money and make the service worse.
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Another thing is people focusing on the "AI vs anti-AI" argument and overlooking the "open source vs close corporate AI" war going on.
There's a very narrow window to solidify "personal" AI before the giants capture the market and snuff everything else out. Its future is either useful tools you run on your phone/PC (or maybe in P2P swarms or among highly competitive API hosts), or it's what you described: shitty, unethical, corporate UIs that ruin everything.
Lemmy vs Reddit (and simply being 'anti-Reddit' obscuring that) is an apt analogy.
It's why, to be blunt, the broad liberal "anti AI" stance really annoys me. It feels like everyone shooting themselves in the foot.
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