They need this shit to take off and become a growth industry, they're running out of places to put their money. Blockchain hype is dead and this is the new hotness, so everyone is getting on board and selling their bored apes to invest.

Honestly I think it can and will be a revolutionary technology once certain enabling breakthroughs are made that allow it to interact more meaningfully with other systems without human intervention, and creating learning data sets that work for each use case with as minimal error chance as possible.

As always though, it's capitalism that's the real problem not the technology itself. Under socialism, we could be automating absolutely everything, saving up our labour power to deal with other problems and correcting the AI's occasional mistakes, but under capitalism any use case will only be implemented because it's profitable, and all the labour power saved will be wasted in the standing army of the unemployed working class.

Also under capitalism making sure that the AI is safe is very costly so the few of us that have to be sacrificed will be worth it for them to rack in the profits.

LLMs dont help productivity or coding, all it does is make it easier to generate spam. If anything it hinders productivity as good hours are spent making dumb powerpoints bc some McKinney vampires convinced management to "get out in front of this AI thing"

It's funny how AI's top priority is to do all the creative jobs, but no one seems to be in any rush to replace CEOs with AI. CEOs and shareholders alike are super expensive, why not them?

Never ever listen to tech bros on anything even tech. First we got cryptocurrency, then we get rideshare and food delivery economy, now AI.

None of it meaningfully benefits people's lives

Truly incredible how this ______ bullshit is being forced on everyone despite it doing nothing to meaningfully improve people’s lives

evergreen sentence right here

my own opinion is that even to the average person it smells, tastes and looks like another crypto-like scam will guarantee it's going to implode on itself pretty soonish

all the scammy companies will get shaken out, hopefully some shitty rules will be put in place protecting artists, a lot of the bad will will blow over once it's out of sight and it will just become another editing tool for small indie game studios and creators.

the key being people better learn to use it in a subtle manner with the ability to edit outputs by hand or else you will get crucified by anyone that smells lazy unfiltered AI bullshit in art

Stack Exchange, of which the corporate section is going nuts over AI right now in a bad way, just published a blog article discussing how 15% of AI applications actually make it to the public. In other words, 85% of attempts to make generative AI do anything productive fail so bad they can't be released. We, consumers, are only seeing the top 15% of attempts and those are still so bad.

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I don’t count productivity or coding as a net good for what it’s worth

I wouldn't say it's improved this hugely either.

Pretty sure the last invention to meaningfully improve peoples life was like the washing machine or penicillin

Just by some of these comments, I can honestly see AI being where I split with leftists. Because I could truly give less of a fuck “if it’s here to say whether like it or not” when it seems like most critics/contrarians are purposefully missing the point. It’s just going to further atomize people and that should be enough to oppose it at all costs

We’re seeing the results of what happens when you carefully construct a surveillance state and consequently make revolution a near impossibility. All the AI in the world isn’t going to improve broken infrastructure, inequality, environmental degradation or bigotry so I’m cheering so hard for nature to win out at this point.

Doomerism is honestly the only option lmao

Looks like in the last year AI means "ChatGPT". Which, for me, is just a bit better spell checker and search engine.

People are surprised that they can "communicate" with it, but it is not something that will change the world.

On the other hand Machine Learning and AI are being used all the time and are making jobs more efficient. Examples are computer vision for sorting apples, or machine learning for detecting frauds, counting anything on the drone or satellite images, detecting fires, finding ships illegally hunting wales.

Every industry is using it more and more and is making peoples jobs better, it is not replacing people, but it is doing something we couldn't do before. Example plant count in agriculture, no one was doing it before, but is easy now and helping everyone involved from farmers to sales and helps in optimisation.

All this happens because of hardware improvement, nothing else.