Technology

I just saw a video on the first music synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and took up the entire basement of a city-black sized building. It was huge and useless, but it worked. Over the next 75 years, technology improved, until it could fit into a suitcase, and be carried around.

The concept and the tech existed in its basic form, but it wasn't really ready for deployment yet.

I see data centers that way. Technically, they can build it, but it still has too many problems to be truly viable yet. There are too many problems with cost, the environment, the corruption, and that's before considering the impact on society.

In 50 years, maybe we'll have the technology and the public policy to do this right, but right now it seems like we are forcing an inferior system to accommodate something that is too advanced for it. We're getting way ahead of ourselves.

It's like body builder who gets on a bike for the first time, and can't believe how fast his giant muscles can make that bike move, without realizing how out of control it will be at the same time, or how big the crash will be when it finally arrives.

GUYS, please, we just need to give them one more trillion of moneys and an ocean of fresh water and we will have an AGI next month!!!

Just imagine AI doing all the work for you, while you live a life of leisure as a homeless person!

No, they are not shoving AI through a funnel in our mouths. We are delusional and this must be normal.

The glass is only half full (because AI data centers are stealing all of the good drinking water to cool down their grossly huge "machinery").

Ai isn't being used to better society. To improve lives. It's being used to drain and make the Epstein class more undeserved money.

It’s not AI. It’s LLMs that don’t actually think in any meaningful way. They just repeat what they have ingested. And was most mathematically likely.

That’s why imma pessimist about LLMs doing anything truly revolutionary. They’re another productivity tool to solve problems that shouldn’t exist in the first place and middle-managment loves it for the same fucking reason.

Seems to me like meaningful development isn't moving at all.

dont you mean AI peddling is moving too fast, rather than the advancement.

It is outrageous what is happening with AI right now, I work for a large company that does contracts with the US government specifically for the VA. Not only did they just lay off a bunch of people but they just announced that we being required to use AI in every step of our workflow and they have decided that AI is so great they now have people who have never a day in their life been coders doing development work. The guy whose job it was to create and manage schedules is now being required to use AI to write code and ship it. These AIs are wrong so so so much its crazy that this is the direction we are going in. If you thought things were bad already its about to get way worse.

I am so deeply sorry to all the vets who will be struggling to get the healthcare that they need because of this. We don't want to do this either but its clear as day they will fire us and replace us with any warm body regardless if that person has actual experience or not. I am looking to leave but the market is complete dog shit and Its been a struggle to get any kind of response for applications.

Yeah, well this isn't a democracy where people have a say in what happens in our society. Our feudal elite decides what will happen, so stop complaining.

Is there a good use case yet?

Development is moving along just fine IMO. It's the application of AI that's out of control.

Besides medical science, I see no use for AI. People make excuses about being "more accessible" for disabled people, but you could replicate those features without AI.

I don't understand the question and I'm guessing people in the survey may not have either. Moving too fast as in using too many physical resources without first focusing on optimization or "OMG the robots are coming for my job!"? These are very different views on technology that could give the same answer.