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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Looks like it is not any smarter than the other junk on the market. The confusion that people consider AI as "intelligence" may be rooted in their own deficits in that area.

And now people exchange one American Junk-spitting Spyware for a Chinese junk-spitting spyware. Hurray! Progress!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

It is open source, so it should be audited and if there are back doors they can be plugged in a fork

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

And now people exchange one American Junk-spitting Spyware for a Chinese junk-spitting spyware.

LLMs aren't spyware, they're graphs that organize large bodies of data for quick and user-friendly retrieval. The Wikipedia schema accomplishes a similar, abet more primitive, role. There's nothing wrong with the fundamentals of the technology, just the applications that Westoids doggedly insist it be used for.

If you no longer need to boil down half a Great Lake to create the next iteration of Shrimp Jesus, that's good whether or not you think Meta should be dedicating millions of hours of compute to this mind-eroding activity.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think maybe it's naive to think that if the cost goes down, shrimp jesus won't just be in higher demand. Shrimp jesus has no market cap, bullshit has no market cap. If you make it more efficient to flood cyberspace with bullshit, cyberspace will just be flooded with more bullshit. Those great lakes will still boil, don't worry.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

artificial intelligence

AI has been used in game development for a while and i havent seen anyone complain about the name before it became synonymous with image/text generation

[–] kshade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It was a misnomer there too, but at least people didn't think a bot playing C&C would be able to save the world by evolving into a real, greater than human intelligence.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well, that is where the problems started.

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[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I am extremely ignorant of all this AI thing. So please can somebody "Explain Like I'm 5" why can this new thing can wipe off over a trillion dollars in US stock ? I would appreciate it a lot if you can help.

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Let's say I make a thing. Let's say somebody offers to buy it from me for $10. I sell it to them, and then let's say somebody else makes a better thing, and now no one will pay more than $2 for my thing. If my thing is a publicly traded corporation, then that just "wiped off" $8 from the stock market. The person I sold it to "lost" $8. Corporations that make AI and the hardware to run it just "lost" a lot of value.

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[–] ziproot@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Tech bros learn about diminishing returns challenge (impossible)

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