To the surprise of everyone but the engineers and the consumer.
This is fucking ridiculous.
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It feels like we are just at the beginning of the worm turning with AI. The biggest players are becoming even bigger and now firing up old nuclear power plants to help offset the new power requirements, while the smaller players get eaten up or die off.
The investing world has started asking more questions about the future potential earnings and path forward for what is turning out to be just a really great auto complete.
The money is still flowing in but has it peaked for the blindly throwing money into these schemes? It takes a lot of capital to support the infrastructure needed and the payoff could be years away for investors.
What I don't understand is what's the game plan for all of this. The oligarchs are not the type to just burn their money for fun. Altman and Altman-wannabes, I can understand. They have an incentive to execute what is essentially and pump and dump and leverage other people's money for personal benefit.
But companies like microsoft? Is their plan to keep plowing tens of billions of dollars into "AI" in hopes of eventually discovering/creating the "next IT revolution"?
They have to want a return. Even Zuck eventually stopped burning billions on his metaverse fetish (and he has full cart blanch on FB's shareholders money).
I would love it, if AI was only used for useful things, like translation, spelling correction, sorting my photos, Plant/Object ID, actual useful SST, doing Google's old job of actually finding the information I want in the sea of SEO garbage or badly written product descriptions.
But no, I already know it'll primarily be used to spy on you better while draining your battery. At least with all the past spying you knew the data processing isn't THAT advanced. But with AI it'll be like having a literal spy following you around at all times.
And from the state of existing models that are small enough to run on a phone, it'll still be years until they are actually reliable enough to be useful.
Not even just a spy following you, a spy on mushrooms that lies about you based on what they think they overheard.
AI is annoying. I don't need my phone making decisions on it's own. I don't want some lame ass company changing how I have my devices set up. I changed to Linux because Micro$oft could not keep it's hands off my settings. It's called "artificial" for a reason, it's not actually intelligent.
I used to only buy Samsung phones, I now refuse to until they get rid of the ai crap. I want a cool phone with good battery-life, a wicked updated camera that takes real pictures and runs fast.
Is there "mandatory" AI stuff in new Samsung phones? I am not seeing anything on my relatively recent Samsung (but I also use a custom launcher and don't really engage in the Samsung ecosystem).
A couple of their new flagship phones have their AI bundled in.
But you can probably completely disable/avoid interaction with them these services, no?
I have my own launcher and FOSS apps, so I am probably missing something, but I don't see any forced AI stuff and I am on OneUI 6.1.
Most phones are rife with bundled garbage (to my knowledge even iPhone have ads built in). It's become less obnoxious compared ~10 years ago, but it's still an issue.