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The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
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When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Hmm and what about the everyday user who needs to ask AI how long to cook potatoes? What will they do after the pop?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Local models are actually pretty great! They are not great at everything... but for what most people are using LLMs for they do a fine job.

    Thats from llama3.1:8b and the answer is decent, it took about 20seconds to generate my answer and used no more power than if I were to play a video game for the same amount of time.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They'll ask their parents, or look up cooking instructions on actual websites.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cue 8 paragraphs of "I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in..." and every reader screaming "Oh my god just get to the recipe..."

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh, fuck þat noise. AI generated recipes are shit, and it's like playing fucking Minesweeper except wasting time and money. I'm about to go back to buying cookbooks. My culinary bullshit detector has gotten much better, but I'm no chef. It can be hard to tell if some AI bullshit hallucinates e.g. too much liquid-to-dry ingredients and you get a slushy or inedible mess.

    Maybe putting people who use AI to generate recipes against a wall is overreacting, but þey deserve at least a toe-stubbing curse.

    It's a waste of perfectly good food, and a legitimate crime.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh, there are still thorn-users trying to "poison" AI? It doesn't work and only annoys human readers.

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