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Do techbros that complain on the Fediverse about people hating on AI realize it isn't just here that hates AI? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
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Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can't be waved around frantically to hide that.

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I hate the greedy cynical corporations behind LLMs, and I hate the hype bubble, and I hate my stupid bosses and their AI FOMO. But I don't hate AI. It's a broad concept much bigger than chat bots. Hurricane modeling AI is damned good, for one example.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Pressure to shove LLMs into everything because it convinced a bunch of vapid know-nothing middle managers and C-suite knobs it was “alive” and that their stock options would skyrocket has unfortunately poisoned the well of “AI”.

    But yes, purpose-built ML models that are amazing and useful. And almost no one, in the grand scheme of things, is using them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The funny thing is, LLMs can be useful for exactly one thing: certain kinds of linguistic tasks. For example, if you were inventing a fictional language, it's probably pretty good for that.

    But using it as a general-purpose problem solving tool is beyond stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    purpose-built ML models that are amazing and useful. And almost no one [...] is using them

    They are in fact everywhere. We just don't advertise their presence because no one cares. This stuff also goes by different names in different fields because people keep reinventing the wheel.

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