I can’t wait for the day in 2 years when people look back and realize how fucking dumb and useless AI is for 90% of the global population, outside of being lazy or incapable. It’s sad we have to always fight through the bandwagoning steps, and letting all these companies fight to get in the door before it takes off, and fucking up society and our planet in the process. Crypto adoption was exactly the same, broadband, dial-up…and so on going backwards. It will settle eventually, but everyone has to deal with this bullshit (and suffer economically in some cases) until it does. It sucks.
I’m not at all convinced that AI is going to be like Crypto - Crypto “solved” a problem that only online drug dealers etc had. AI “solves” a problem lots of companies have in terms of summarizing masses of data, search problems, and currently various rote tasks.
I’m also not convinced dial up through to broadband was a bandwagon… Those were important technological steps forward.
I think most of this is a problem with electricity companies just not wanting to invest in their infrastructure at all. Almost any other company would love explosive demand, and would be working to make ever more money on selling more of their product. What’s even sillier IMHO is just that there’s huge growth in solar farms and the like providing generation capacity for the utility without them having to build anything.
You can either use technology to improve your life in whatever way it allows, or you can be resistant, bitch and whine about it to anyone who will listen to how you don’t use something, and not receive the benefits of that technology.
Lemmy is the only social media I’ve ever used, but I haven’t spent the last 20 years whining to people about how I think myspace/facebook/reddit/100s other companies are bad and doing nothing positive. Only consuming electricity to produce nothing of value. Plenty of people do use it and benefit from it. I chose not to. I did chose to take up lots of other technology that has been beneficial to my life.
AI is and will likely in the future be very useful and technologically significant. But I am not convinced it is anywhere near the world changing levels companies like OpenAI (ClosedAI) or microsoft make it out to be. Gen AI will become a useful but largely mundane tool that people will use to help themselves be a little more productive in the future. Think how face detection helps you take better portraits rather than replace the need to take a photograph.
The current problem is that all the excitement is around AI being able to completely revolutionise work and replace workers. Money and effort is being poured into that goal; however, those investing are going to rapidly find out that we don’t know how to create a tool that does that yet and, we are likely a very long way from finding out how.
I can’t wait for the day in 2 years when people look back and realize how fucking dumb and useless AI is for 90% of the global population, outside of being lazy or incapable. It’s sad we have to always fight through the bandwagoning steps, and letting all these companies fight to get in the door before it takes off, and fucking up society and our planet in the process. Crypto adoption was exactly the same, broadband, dial-up…and so on going backwards. It will settle eventually, but everyone has to deal with this bullshit (and suffer economically in some cases) until it does. It sucks.
I’m not at all convinced that AI is going to be like Crypto - Crypto “solved” a problem that only online drug dealers etc had. AI “solves” a problem lots of companies have in terms of summarizing masses of data, search problems, and currently various rote tasks.
I’m also not convinced dial up through to broadband was a bandwagon… Those were important technological steps forward.
I think most of this is a problem with electricity companies just not wanting to invest in their infrastructure at all. Almost any other company would love explosive demand, and would be working to make ever more money on selling more of their product. What’s even sillier IMHO is just that there’s huge growth in solar farms and the like providing generation capacity for the utility without them having to build anything.
You can either use technology to improve your life in whatever way it allows, or you can be resistant, bitch and whine about it to anyone who will listen to how you don’t use something, and not receive the benefits of that technology.
Lemmy is the only social media I’ve ever used, but I haven’t spent the last 20 years whining to people about how I think myspace/facebook/reddit/100s other companies are bad and doing nothing positive. Only consuming electricity to produce nothing of value. Plenty of people do use it and benefit from it. I chose not to. I did chose to take up lots of other technology that has been beneficial to my life.
AI is and will likely in the future be very useful and technologically significant. But I am not convinced it is anywhere near the world changing levels companies like OpenAI (ClosedAI) or microsoft make it out to be. Gen AI will become a useful but largely mundane tool that people will use to help themselves be a little more productive in the future. Think how face detection helps you take better portraits rather than replace the need to take a photograph.
The current problem is that all the excitement is around AI being able to completely revolutionise work and replace workers. Money and effort is being poured into that goal; however, those investing are going to rapidly find out that we don’t know how to create a tool that does that yet and, we are likely a very long way from finding out how.