Comment on Why do people hate AI so much?

NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• rabiezaater@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Both. I think people don’t even realize that there are non llm AI applications, and it has done a disservice to the field in general.

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    LLMs are interesting, and there are some very promising applications, but I’m concerned that the hype is going to damage the reputation of the technology in a way that could interfere with those things.

    Regarding all other AI, there’s a lot of good that has come from AI research, and most people don’t recognize it. We have a tendency to shift our definition of “intelligence” to always exclude things that someone figures out how to get a computer to do.

    Every day we use software that would have been considered AI years ago.

    I’m not against AI, but I’m against the capitalist impulse to squeeze money out of anything to the detriment of all of humanity and the world.

    My hope is that the LLM bubble bursts, big companies suffer terribly, the “AI” tag becomes bad marketing, and they let AI quietly return to research, where people can do some good with it.

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    • rabiezaater@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I appreciate your distinction between capitalism and AI. Many attribute the maladies of hyper late stage capitalism (enshittification, data hoovering, algorithmic engagement tuning, etc) to AI, when one is just a symptom of the other.

      I agree on the overhype and hope for the industry. I do not want LLMs to go away, and there are plenty of open source non commercial LLM projects out there. I look forward to the day when I can just download a local LLM assistant that has all the capabilities of the best models today. Once someone figures that out, I think the corporations who have poured hundreds of billions into massive data centers will start collapsing.

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