You know what pisses me off?
My so-called creative peers generating AI slop images to go with the music that they are producing.
I’m pretty sure they’d be up in arms if they found out that an AI produced tune got to the top 10 on Beatport.
One of the more popular AI movements right now is DJs creating themselves as action figures.
The hypocrisy is hilarious.
Next is quantum computing
Synthetic biology. This is a hype wave waiting to happen. Can’t wait for crops to get enshittified /s Hopefully we move beyond the Sillicon Valley business model by then.
NFT, AI, “the blockchain”, 3D TVs, SaaS… I know I’m forgetting some more tech trends that have been annoying from start to finish in the past ten or twenty years.
(Sadly SaaS seems to be doing OK right now, and I suspect our Windows friends are not too far from OSaaS)
I do feel that, unlike Crypto, AI (or, to drop the buzzwords, LLMs and other machine-learning based language processors and parsers) will end up having a place in the world.
As it is NOW, the AI hype train is definitely an investment bubble and it will definitely explode in a glorious fashion eventually. Taking a lot of people down with it.
But unlike Crypto, AI does – It like does things, you know? Even if I personally feel like it’s mostly only good for a toy, all my attempts to use it for anything society would deem “valuable” were frustrated, but at least I can RP with it when my friends aren’t available. It is a thing that exists and can be used.
Crypto was funny because it was literally useless. Just an incredibly wasteful techno-fetishistic speculative vehicle with precisely zero shame about being that.
As for what’s next, I think Quantum Computing might be it. That is, assuming the Tech Industry even survives the bubble’s burst in its current form. Because everyone in the industry is putting all their eggs including theoretical eggs that haven’t even been laid, and in fact there’s not even a chicken in this AI hype train. And even with AI becoming part of people’s lives, as I predict it indeed will, when the bubble does burst it might end up hitting the reset button on who is truly in charge of things.
Killing the poor
AI is here to stay but I can’t wait to see it get past the point where every app has to have their own AI shoehorned in regardless of what the app is. Sick of it.
I’m waiting for the cheap graphic cards
The AI hype will pass but AI is here to stay. Current models already allow us to automate processes which were impossible to automate just a few years ago. Here are some examples:
- Detecting anomalies in roentgen and CT-scans
- Normalizing unstructured information
- Information distribution in organizations
- Learning platforms
- Stock photos
- Modelling
- Animation
Note, these are obvious applications.
The difference is that AI is actually quite useful in some areas like medical research. Language models like Chatgpt are also useful when used right. It’s the stable diffusion stuff (image generation) that is crap and the fact that companies keep shoving AI features that no one asked for down our throat.
The difference is that none of this is “AI”.
I see you saying the same thing in other comments and frankly I don’t think people care. It’s a term used to encompass LLMs and at this point I think everybody here knows what the person is referring to.
That said, as a pedant myself, crack on if you like. I just wanted to express my thoughts as I’m not pedantic over this 😂
As a fellow pedant, I have to point out that even a simple tic-tac-toe algorithm is “AI”.
The term AI was coined at the Dartmouth College Summer Workshop in 1956. Early AI focused on developing expert systems and things like heuristics.
Most people conflate AI, the technical term for computerized decision making in general with the SciFi concept of super intelligent computers, and there has been a revolution since about 2010, in that computationally intensive neutral networks that were theoretical became more conceivable and practical. But LLMs are just a single family of AI techniques.
This, even bad 90’s game computer AI is just as valid to call AI as the latest OpenAI model. It’s just more primitive. Orders of magnitude more primitive, and no neural networks or LLM.
Thanks for this. That is interesting to know.
I see potential for stable diffusion in a few niche areas. For instance ttrpg, getting imagery on the go for the session seems nice.
And of course there is… This other thing…
I disagree. The fun part about ttrpgs is that there is no imagery and you have to use your imagination and everyone has their own interpretation.
Regarding the other thing, there’s enough real images of that on the internet already, why do we need artificial ones? There are more unethical applications in that field than ethical ones.
That is your fun, not mine
AI is going to eventually begin to replace people’s real-world relationships, and it will be so sophisticated that you won’t be able to tell the difference.
You might be waiting a long time, friend. NFTs were truly useless (besides ripping people off). AI actually has its uses and isn’t totally worthless.
Some companies are trying to do it right, looking at DaVinci Resolve’s new beta they’re trying hard to implement it in ways that leaves you in control but reduce the grind.
VLC is using LLMs for automated and auto-synced subtitles in any language you wish
Biotech is still on the waiting list with vat grown meat.
It’s available in 2 restaurants
If anything survives it will be the deepening of the attitude that copying or imitating anything is “stealing”.
AI, in some form, is here to stay, but the bubble of tech companies shoving it into everything will pop at some point. As for what that would look like, it would probably be like the dot-com bubble.
