hasnt he read dune?
“look at me and the scary beast I brought to life! Look at me!” No Geoffrey, the scary beasts are Sam Altman and his ilk, who would have used anything to hype the fading tech industry up. LLMs were just the thing that happened to be that “anything”.
WHAT?! Wow, how did he possibly come to that conclusion? /s
There’s a lot of things humans would have been better off without, technologically.
24/7 News Cycle. 24/7 Social Media. Social Media in general. Smartphones.
You don’t say.
Deny excrement, Holmes?
It should be an “opt in” thing, but as someone with at least half a brain; I find myself spending waaay too much time “opting out” or “entirely avoiding that pile of shit like a cow turd in a field full of landmines”.
AI ain’t got shit on me. I’m Kong Kong and I’ll eat your children, bitch.
im with ya my guy! like fundamentaly i understand the arguments around “ai is built on stolen ideas!” and “I wanted ai to fold washing and mop floors so i can spend more time being creative, but this is the opposite!”
BUT, the thing that gets my fee fee’s hurt the most is, I would probably use more of it if it wasnt being forced down my throat at every oppertunity. OK! I GET IT! AI is good but if it is soo outstandingly revolutionary then LET ME DISCOVER THAT! dont ram it down my throat saying “You will enjoy this!”
Ain’t nothing better to ruin something then mandatory requirements.
It’s good for quick turnarounds like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbg8KWKAmGo
But I wouldn’t, I’d spend 3 months or a year or 3 making it, and then it’d be too late. And then I say, oh well, at least it’s mine.
For one thing, get it working before building thousands of data centers and turning the not even half-baked algorithms loose on the world. AI doesn’t have to equal trillions in investment and so much resource consumption.
“might”
There is a world wherein the surplus value from automation is used to enrich everyone and we move from a labor-based society to a human-based one, but too many people are capitalism-brained to the point that they’re fully incapable of even imagining what it might look like to live in a world where we’re not forced to labor for 70+ years then die
It might turn out we were better off without electricity, but we’ll never know because we have electricity.
Ya think?
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Some are better off, some not. 🤓
Since the hyperscaler datacentres contribute massively to extra fossil fuel burning, then we are all definitely worse off, regardless of whether it helps some people write sloppy code really fast.
“extra fossil fuel burning” is not the only option. Choosing less polluting (non-fossil) energy sources can significantly reduce that contribution.
