AI is not for consumers, it's for investors.
Turns out it doesn't really appeal to investors anymore either.
The only people still buying into the hype are executives and managers.
executives and managers
Of course its the two types of jobs AI can actually replace
Almost like it's a ponzy scheme lol
can't help but imagine Stavros Halkias slipping up and calling something a ponzu scheme
So when this bubble finally pops, what's the next bullshit tech that will carry the entire western economy? It was crypto for a bit, then they tried the jpgs.
The next bullshit "killer app" in tech probably follows from historical trends.
Crypto and NFTs were essentially a rerun of the 2001 e-commerce bubble, then Generative "AI" was a combination of 80's chatbots and the predictive text algos of the last 15 years. So the next big thing in tech is probably something from the early 90's with some modern twist all buried under a fresh coat of marketing hype.
- Cybiko with LoRA?
- Gene therapy for cilantro tasting like soap?
- A serverless, blockchainless model for Web 4.0 that manages to be craven and awful in entirely new ways?
- VR/AR becomes as cheap as smartphones?
- A new physical A/V format for when the streaming market implodes?
- Even more "Smart" devices that only exist to steal personal info and die when the corpo servers go down?
- Trend-following bots that automatically generate and sell merchandise on demand in response to viral posts (probably already exists)?
- "Smart Agents", software that promises to use AI to simplify the already dumbed-down apps everything uses these days?
I'm thinking it's going to be security/military-themed. Governments are spending money on war and police and spies like drunk sailors and many beaks are going to get wet putting NATO on the Blockchain, selling spy-detection apps or building automatic AI-powered disinformatskaya-filters.
Consumers will be drawn into this paranoia capitalism as well, buying technological fixes for homeless people being nearby, people touching their cars or cyber attacks bringing down modern society.
I genuinely think there's way too much money in crypto that there's no way they don't somehow try to force fetch to happen. I massively fear a world where crypto has so much wealth buy-in that one of the more dominant coins finds itself getting a major nation to back it, or allow it as lawful exo-currency. The united states is specifically on a cultural, political, and economic precipice and I absolutely see the coming imperial crises causing an opening with which this horseshit permanently embeds itself in the economy. The blockchain is a god-sent to the security state, having a permanent, un-falsifiable record of all transactions would make any letter agency data twat salivate
there's very real reason to think that crypto-bros are gonna find a way into a kind of unescapable legitimacy. The groundwork is being laid socially already, even if there's not a lot of buy-in, it's something a lot of people are at least nominally aware of, and all it takes is some kind of economic catastrophy, which is likely in the short-mid term, and with their ear already bent to our completely for-sale government, it'll become normal and just the way it is ("ugh I hate having to open my crypto wallet!!! web 3 sure is worse than web 2!!" they whine as they make their peace with how things are yet again, doing nothing about it)
I basically predicted elon musk would turn twitter to the right, and everyone would thrash and whine and mostly give up and carry on just because the platform is too valuable - that's a victory for him, even if he lost some people - they're all peoplegroups outside of the world he wants.
This is the way of forcing shit down people's throats, and i just don't think crypto is done yet, and i fucking hate it. I'm trying to get myself in a position to more seriously drop out if/when it happens
It has to be purely digital (finance capitalism hates manufacturing), and enable a new set of makets (neoliberalism demands it) that allows infinite growth (silicon valley ideology) and requires a lot of GPUs (the tech giants funding this only want technology they have a competitive advantage on, and their competitive advantage is having enough money to fill data centers full of GPUs).
Best I can think of is cloud gaming, but I don't really think it quite works.
Carbon capture via the blockchain. Don’t ask how it works, it is very complicated and you wouldn’t understand. Just trust me.
Step away from the lathe!
It's hard to say because so many companies have gone hard on LLMs. I hope to god that when this bubble pops, it takes companies like Oracle and Microsoft with it.
Sadly, as we all know, tech giants are too big to fail and would get bailed out immediately.
Quantum computing's time has come, it's totally going to make AI work the way we always said it would.
Sony PS9 needs to be in the works too.
Desperate board meeting. One of the execs shrugs and says "well, we could try advertising how quickly it learned the n word."
Mullen Technology Group
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def not a bubble tho 👍
I'm so ready for that bubble to pop. XD
This is good for bitcoin
Organic intelligence is going to be sold as a premium product instead.
Working at a grocery store and getting chewed out for putting the brains below the NPUs on the shelf (they have to be sold as conventional now due to contamination)
Ehh I ... don't care for it.
When I saw that video about the anti-sex beds at the olympics using ai I wanted to scream.
They tried it in Tokyo, anti-sex beds were made of cardboard, so if you tried to bang the bed would give out under you
...as if young horny fit people couldn't just throw the mattress on the floor and go to town
It's so dumb
I was watching some interview about those beds specifically and there was a regular damn couch in the background behind the interviewer. It's really stupid.
You have a link to the video?
Didn't save it, it might be on cnn
so you're telling me things would be produced in a capitalist economy for which there is not a consumer demand? go back to econ 101 tankie futurism dot comGuy named Alfred:
Allen Iverson in shambles
𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞.
Even if AI worked like it's supposed to, I still wouldn't want it. This shit just makes me tired. Fuckin' tech bros get the wall. Do something actually cool and useful, you trashmonsters.
i just spam the phrase "talk to human" in the chat over and over and if it doesn't direct me to a real person i stop using it
only gimmicks need to advertise the use of "AI" as a selling point. the actual useful applications of machine learning don't need marketing buzzwords because the end product is compelling enough at face value
like how many gamers even realize that their fancy raytracing only works because of "AI" de-noising? they don't have to know or care about what's going on under the hood, all that matters is that the game looks prettier
I like AI. I like weird kinda nightmarish jpegs for whatever stupid things nerds can come up with. It is a fun toy.
Someday AI will get good and it will no longer be a fun toy.
A new a/v format would be comedic however given that 4K blu doesn't sell