▲ 315 ▼ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs (fortune.com) submitted 5 months ago by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 51 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 68 points 5 months ago (10 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 20 points 5 months ago* Yeah, Sam Altman ran this ponze scheme all the way to Asia and the Middle East looking for investors and nobody would bite. Theres no chance a bunch of people with an average of $5k savings each can turn this around for him. permalink fedilink source parent [–] brem@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children) Panic mode is still a few years away. Just wait, it gets pretty wild. Not fun wild, but it does get simultaneously violent & weird. Nothing like Terminator. More like teenage boys throwing controllers; only we & our beautiful planet are the gamepad being smashed against the drywall. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) Hopefully we learn about our collective power before it comes to that, but who am I kidding... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] brem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago Just keep caring. Stay informed. Collect books and uncorrupted data. Spread the word. Be good. That way, when inevitably this all goes wrong (as it always does), we have plenty of backup data for whatever eventually finds our remains ;) permalink fedilink source parent [–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* "The commencement speaches aren't working.... dang nabit! Time for plan B" permalink fedilink source parent [–] XiELEd@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago (4 children) Man, I'm pretty sure Local LLMs getting better and more efficient would be one of the reasons why the bubble's gonna burst. It's still very technical, though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) I mean seriously, just try ollama with lfm2 on a macbook with the current NPU.. Why the fuck would I pay these clowns to run that process elsewhere? Why would I pay for model access when they've plateaued and open/free models are everywhere? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago Yup free models are gonna be the death of these clowns permalink fedilink source parent [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 20 points 5 months ago* Yeah, Sam Altman ran this ponze scheme all the way to Asia and the Middle East looking for investors and nobody would bite. Theres no chance a bunch of people with an average of $5k savings each can turn this around for him. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brem@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children) Panic mode is still a few years away. Just wait, it gets pretty wild. Not fun wild, but it does get simultaneously violent & weird. Nothing like Terminator. More like teenage boys throwing controllers; only we & our beautiful planet are the gamepad being smashed against the drywall. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) Hopefully we learn about our collective power before it comes to that, but who am I kidding... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] brem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago Just keep caring. Stay informed. Collect books and uncorrupted data. Spread the word. Be good. That way, when inevitably this all goes wrong (as it always does), we have plenty of backup data for whatever eventually finds our remains ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) Hopefully we learn about our collective power before it comes to that, but who am I kidding... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] brem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago Just keep caring. Stay informed. Collect books and uncorrupted data. Spread the word. Be good. That way, when inevitably this all goes wrong (as it always does), we have plenty of backup data for whatever eventually finds our remains ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago Just keep caring. Stay informed. Collect books and uncorrupted data. Spread the word. Be good. That way, when inevitably this all goes wrong (as it always does), we have plenty of backup data for whatever eventually finds our remains ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* "The commencement speaches aren't working.... dang nabit! Time for plan B" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] XiELEd@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago (4 children) Man, I'm pretty sure Local LLMs getting better and more efficient would be one of the reasons why the bubble's gonna burst. It's still very technical, though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) I mean seriously, just try ollama with lfm2 on a macbook with the current NPU.. Why the fuck would I pay these clowns to run that process elsewhere? Why would I pay for model access when they've plateaued and open/free models are everywhere? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago Yup free models are gonna be the death of these clowns permalink fedilink source parent [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) I mean seriously, just try ollama with lfm2 on a macbook with the current NPU.. Why the fuck would I pay these clowns to run that process elsewhere? Why would I pay for model access when they've plateaued and open/free models are everywhere? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago Yup free models are gonna be the death of these clowns permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble. permalink fedilink source parent