It’s the perfect capitalist product because you pay for it to burn resources, and then you often have to pay someone else to fix what it made before it’s usable.
I keep seeing a little thing at the top of Google searches that says "sorry but AI summary search can't help you right now", which, like, GOOD, fuck off with that shit anyway
Agreed. I genuinely don't think there are many tasks in this world that ai is suited to handle. An ai trained on an att database to answer customer questions to expedite text chat conversations would be one such place, but a person can do so much better than ai.
You don't understand the subtle art of typing long descriptive sentences and then adjusting those sentences until you get a perfect rendering of thicc slave Leia with one nipple poking out kissing Anakin.
I've always wondered, like there are areas under ground that remain freezing all the time because of whatever ground magic it is you know, but like why don't they put the ai down there so they don't need water to cool off?
I read an article this week about how to write a prompt to find a Mother’s Day gift for a mom who lives in a small town.
The end result took much longer than just looking at Yelp or Google Maps, but yes, let’s burn up the planet instead.
What you have to understand is the real good we've done here. We've given so many tech bros the ability to generate subpar images with too many fingers without ever needing to interact with a human artist or speak or collaborate with anyone. What a victory.
While it's true that AI requires substantial resources, the return on investment can be substantial, both in economic terms and in contributions to societal progress. It's crucial to balance criticism with an appreciation of these achievements and potential. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01383-z
If there's one thing artists will have over AI, it's that their compute modules will be far more powerful and efficient than that of AI for the foreseeable future. Human artists who put out generic work are under threat, but the artists who think beyond the training sets will continue to have work.
It's like Microsoft Paint: granting folks with no talent access to shitty manifestations of their described mental imagery, and that's not for nothing.
Also in the process of discovering that it doesn't work, you have to hit refresh like 67 times to get something that looks "good enough" so you're absolutely assured of using way more resources than just doing whatever it is the old fashioned way.
It either doesn't work, or it does work well enough to put people out of work. You can't have both. Unless you're saying those people don't work well either
worse, it doesn’t work where it is actually useful to society, but it works just fine for AI news anchors and scam ads using AI celebrities to endorse thc gummies they’ve never heard of.
There is nothing cool about AI if you are in a creative industry. As it steals content and uses it repeatedly, it will create a “loop” for those who use it.
And I'll say this: we put in a heat pump at our place, along with enough solar to make us net-zero. (We do buy electrons from the power company at night, but send 'em back by day.)*
Not all electrification is a net stress for the grid.
The actually infuriating thing about it is seeing real, potentially very useful practical applications of it completely swallowed by the bullshit hype machine around the most useless application of it
Like, can't I just get an OS that recognizes the silly shit I do repeatedly and then make it default? "I see your downloading a document to your desktop, again, would you like to make that the default location for these types of documents?" I mean, doesn't seem hard.
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Because things like computer vision have been detecting cancer cells better than humans for around a decade now.
It's asshats that claim we'll be living in the future by the end of 2024 that are the problem.
ML can be amazing!
Microsoft to invest $3.3B in Wisconsin AI data center as Biden hits at Trump over jobs creation (https://msn.com)
Which is why they're rushing so hard to get that short term profit.
https://bsky.app/profile/tomtomorrow.bsky.social/post/3ks2tcrbdl22x
So, for like one minute of runtime.
I like it. We were taking way too long to that anyway.
The end result took much longer than just looking at Yelp or Google Maps, but yes, let’s burn up the planet instead.
“LLM GPT-3 consumed 500 millilitres of water for every 10 to 50 responses it generates.
That is 20 times more than it takes to produce 50 Google searches.”
https://bsky.app/profile/torrleonard.bsky.social/post/3kqg4f6qaez22
And I'll say this: we put in a heat pump at our place, along with enough solar to make us net-zero. (We do buy electrons from the power company at night, but send 'em back by day.)*
Not all electrification is a net stress for the grid.
*I know. Don't @ me.