I think AI tools have (and will have) their uses, but AI as a whole has been hyped up so much for so long now that the bubble is bound to burst sooner or later.
And when it does, hopefully we can go back to not having AI shoved into every fucking thing imaginable...
No I don't want an AI on my phone or computer trawling through all my data for you, just to give me some handy search feature I almost certainly won't use.
I expect a creative destruction, like what happened with the dotcom bubble. A ton of GenAI companies will go bust and the market will be flooded with cheap GPUs and other AI hw which will be snapped on the cheap, and enthusiasts and researches will use them to make actually useful stuff.
I might want an ai on my computer, but only if it is a local, open source model that does not report any kind of data to outside parties in any way.
If that were the case, and it was something I chose, I certainly wouldn't mind it anywhere near as much - but the ones being forced upon you by every tech company alive right now are none of those things, and are all data harvesters disguised as utilities.
That's where I'm at to, I like the concept of an AI analyzing all my files for easier reference (especially since it's a disorganized mess lol) but only local and open source.
AI has already taken tens of thousands of jobs. Which it's not doing still.
I hope all the creative teams that got sacked because the idiot CEO blew ten years worth of capital on an AI gamble hold out for C-suite pay to return.
The one thing LLMs will always be better at doing than humans is pattern detection.
Incidentally, the best job suited to their capability to detect patterns in large amounts of data is doing what CEOs currently do
But they got an MKBHD ad. Surely MKBHD would not deceive everyone.
I for one can't wait for Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) to do a feature length deep dive takedown of it soon :D
That'd be a lot nicer than Ed Zitron non-stop unthinking whiny critique. I don't think I've ever heard someone I agree with being so unpleasant to listen to
don’t think I’ve ever heard someone I agree with being so unpleasant to listen to
Sending this to EZ so that he can put it as his by-line
Not quite so familiar with this Ed Zitron individual myself, but I agree that critique is best served with precision, clarity, wit, charm, and style. When someone holds a rhetorical position that is correct with regard to reality but articulates said position very poorly, it does a disservice to the discourse at large.
People (albeit foolishly) very well might reflexively adopt an objectively false stance JUST because they don't want to agree with someone so disagreeable.
Or in other words, sometimes nothing makes an idea sound worse than the enthusiastic support of a moron.
I thought we were supposed to get like protocol droids with AI. We just get protocols that steal all our data.
