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    2 months ago

    I hated it when everything became ‘smart’.

    Now everything has ‘AI’.

    Nothing was smart. And that’s not AI.

    Everything costs more, everything has a stupid app that gets abandoned, IoT backend that’s on life support the moment it was turned on. Subscriptions everywhere! Everything is built with lower quality, lower standards.

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    they don’t care. you’re not the audience. the tech industry lives on hype. now it’s ai because before that they did it with nft and that failed. and crypto failed. tech needs a grift going to keep investors investing. when the bubble bursts again they’ll come up with some other bullshit grift because making useful things is hard work.

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      Yup, you can see it in talks on annual tech conferences. Last year it was APIs, this year it’s all AI. They’ll just move on to the next trendy thing next year.

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        To be fair, APIs have been around since the 70s,and are not trendy, they’re just required to have a common interface for applications to request and perform actions with each other.

        But yeah, AI is mostly trendy bullshit

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          I was referring mostly about security conferences. Last year almost every vendor was selling API security products. Now it’s all AI infused products.

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          Have you been to any appsec conferences last year? It was all API security. This year it was all AI-leveraged CI/CD, code/vulnerability review, etc.

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      I was ok with crypto and nft because it was up to me to decide if I want to get involved in it or not.

      AI does seem to have impact at jobs, at least employers are trying to use it and see if it actually will allow them to hire less staff, I see that for SWE. I don’t think AI will do much there though.

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        it’s not up to you, it just failed before it could be implemented. many publishers already commit to in-game nfts before they had to back down because it fell apart too quickly (and some still haven’t). if it held on for just a couple more years there wouldn’t be a single aaa title that doesn’t have nfts today.

        crypto was more complicated because unlike these two you can’t just add it and say “here, this is all crypto now” because it requires prior commitment and it’s way too complicated for the average person. plus it doesn’t have much benefit: people already give you money and buy fake coins anyway.

        I’m giving examples from games because it’s the most exploitative market but these would also seep into other apps and services if not for the hurdles and failures. so now we’re stuck with this. everyone’s doing it because it’s a gold rush except instead of gold it’s literal shit, and instead of a rush it’s literal shit.

        — tangent —

        … and just today I realized I had to switch back to Google assistant because literally the only thing gemini can do is talk back to me, but it can’t do anything useful, including the simplest shit like converting currency.

        “I’m sorry, I’m still learning” – why, bitch? why don’t you already know this? what good are you if I ask you to do something for convenience and instead you tell me to do it manually and start explaining how I can do the most basic shit that you can’t do as if I’m the fucking idiot.

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      Nft didn’t fail, it was just the idiotic selling of jogs for obscene amounts that crashed (most of that was likely money laundering anyway). The tech still has a use.

      Wouldn’t exactly call crypto a failure, either, when we’re in the midst of another bull run.

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    2 months ago

    The problem isn’t AI. The problem is greedy, clueless management pushing half baked products of dubious value on consumers.

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    I kind of like AI, sorry.

    But it should all be freely available & completely open sourced since they were all built with our collective knowledge. The crass commercialization/hoarding is what’s gross.

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      I like what we could be doing with AI.

      For example there’s one AI that I read about awhile back that was given data sets on all the known human diseases and the medications that are used to treat them.

      Then it was given data sets of all the known chemical compounds(or something like that, can’t remember the exact wording)

      Then it was used to find new potential treatments for diseases. Like new antibiotics. Basically it gives medical researchers leads to follow.

      That’s fucking cool and beneficial to everyone. It’s a wonderful application of the tech. Do more of that please.

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        What you are talking about is machine learning which is called AI. What the post is talking about is LLMs which are also called AI.

        AI by definition means anything that exhibits intelligent behavior and it is not natural in nature.

        So when you use GMaps to find the shortest path between 2 points that’s also AI (specifically called local search).

        It is pointless to argue/discuss AI if nobody even know which type they are specifically talking about.

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          The issue is, people tend to overgeneralize and also get averted when some buzzword is repeated too much.

          So, this negatively affects the entire field of any AI.

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          I’m talking about AI in the context of this conversation.

          I’m sorry it upsets you that capitalism has yet again redefined another word to sell us something else, but nobody here is specifically responsible for the language we’ve been given to talk about LLMs.

          Perhaps writing to Mirriam Webster about the issue could reap the results you’re looking for.

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            LLMs are an instance of AI. There are many. Typically, the newest promising one is what the media will refer to as “AI” because the media don’t do subtlety.

            There was a time when expert systems were the one thing the media considered to be AI (and were overhyped to the point of articles wondering if they’d make jobs like general practitioners obsolete). Now it’s generational neural nets. In twenty years it’ll be something else.

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      Yeah. I’ve been interested in AI for most of my life. I’ve followed AI developments, and tinkered with a lot of AI stuff myself. I was pretty excited when ChatGPT first launched… but that excitement turned very sour after about a month.

      I hate what the world has become. Money corrupts everything. We get the cheapest most exploitative version of every possible idea, and when it comes to AI - that’s pretty big net negative on the world.