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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 112 points 11 months ago (6 children)

AI even ruined AI. Up until this insane hype train, ML models were specialized tools to achieve their tasks. Now the whole field is dominated by LLMs and slopgen bullshit.

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  • [–] 47 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah that's the annoying thing. Generative AI is actually really useful.....in SPECIFIC situations. Discovering new battery tech, new medicines, etc. are all good use cases because it's basically a parrot and blender combined and most of these things are rehashes if existing technologies in new and novel ways.

    It is not a fucking good solution for a search engine replacement to ask "Why do farts smell?". It uses way too much energy for that and it hallucinates bullshit.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. They solved protien folding with ML a few years back. And I like using it for things like noise removal in Lightroom.

    But so much of it has been focused on useless (at best) bullshit that I just want the bubble to burst already.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    I agree with the general sentiment here but just wanted to clarify that they definitely didn't "solve protein folding" yet. Alpha fold is a significant improvement in structure prediction and it generated a lot of hype but some of the structures I've seen it put out are total nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    A lot of top researchers have already moved on from transformers.

    Yann LeCun, Meta’s longtime chief AI scientist, quit and said LLMs are a “dead end” because scaling text-only models can’t produce real intelligence, and he's not the only one who thinks so. Lots of engineers understand the limitations of LLMs.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    There was already a lot of ML bullshit from the big data bubble ~ 2010 and before ChatGPT, together with all of the fuss about data scientists. But now it's a 100 times worse.

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