AI is the evolution of tools. Like any other modern tool, either learn it and use it or be left behind.
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And a great many tools have a brief period of excitement before people realize they aren't actually all that useful. ("The Segway will change the way everyone travels!") There are aspects of limited AI that are quite useful. There are other aspects that are counter-productive at the current level of capability. Marketing hype is pushing anything with AI in the name, but it will all settle out eventually. When it does, a lot of people will have wasted a lot of time, and caused some real damage, by relying on the parts that are not yet practical.
marketing hype is pushing anything with AI in the name, but it will all settle out eventually
Agreed. "use it or be left behind" itself sounds like a phrase straight out of a marketing pitch from every single "AI-centric" company that pushes their "revolutionary" product. It's a phrase that i hear daily from c-suite executives that know very little of what they're talking about. AI (specifically generative) has its usecases, but it's nowhere near where the marketing says it is. And when it finally does get there, i think people are going to be surprised when they don't find themselves in the utopia that they've been promised.
Absolutely agreed all around.
For me, in my job, AI has been a fantastic tool. It feels like I was using a plain screw driver and now I have a cordless, light power drill. It really is doing “grunt” work for me so I can focus on the more complex tasks.
Is Instagram a modern tool too? Just - felt segregated due to not using it and such shit in my teens, and now it's apparently something from the past, and I still haven't used it.
What a brave, original thought. Did an AI write this for you?
No, but thank you!
These endless "AI bad" articles are annoying. It's just click bait at this point.
Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.
AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.
Copyright, yes it's a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire "oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for" is backwards.
His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn't like AI because he doesn't like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it's bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV's too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.
I never thought I'd see the web fight for copyright.
For me it seems like all AI issues boil down to "I don't like stions" which is fine but its kinda delusional to pretend it's something else be it silly energy use complaints or hypocritical copyright nonsense.
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At least anecdotally, Andreas over at 82MHz.net tried running a AI model locally on his laptop and it took over 10 minutes for just one prompt.
OK just the 4th sentence clearly shows this person has no clue what they're talking about.
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