But you can build great things with their technology.
Do tell.
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JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 18 hours ago
I do not like takes like this. AI companies are, of course, garbage. But you can build great things with their technology. So posting some memes saying that every AI product is useless like a slot machine is kind of blind to the capabilities of what you can do with them. It’s like all those old people back then telling everybody that they do not need computers and that computers suck or that the internet is bad and you should read a book.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Nalivai@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You can generate a picture of sonic the hedgehog with giant tits, and not pay a single artist for it. Isn’t it fucking great?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
AI is more than just LLMs or image generation.
It has been used in science for the last couple of decades in order to automate things that are too tedious to do by hand. Protein folding and mathematical equations come to mind.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
You know DAMN WELL that isn’t what we’re talking about.
Might as well say a batch file is AI.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
We call a new thing AI every 5 years. This cycle it’s LLM-powered chatbots.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Well, a slot machine can actually be a pretty nice arcane cabinet, if you remove all the gambling software, add a little more buttons to it. It doesn’t actually make slot machines any more redeemable.
But even beyound that, it increasingly looks like all the meager benefits that llm provides is outweighed by enormous downsides of using llm, both on personal, and on societal level. This is not saying anything about other theory-free inference products, but that’s not what we call AI anymore, so that point is moot.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I cant think of a single thing they can build in the hands of a crazed idiot that wouldnt be better built in the hands of a trained professional.
Ai should, at most, be used to automate tedious, low risk work that anyone in the field could do, but would rather avoid. Examples like protein folding or brute forcing math proofs, really just things that can easily be programmed but are more grunt busywork than anything.
It should NOT be used for developing new features in code, discovering or finalizing math proofs, and most certainly, human expression via art.
Ai’s exclusive use should be to free humans to pursue passions, either by reducing work hours or tedium, ideally both.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
The thing is the trained professional costs 300k a year (100k in low-income areas like Europe) to employ and a z.ai coding plan sub lowest tier is like 20 bucks a month and makes a ton of mistakes but works at least 10x faster so you get much faster iteration…