It sure feels like we’re at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If so, the bubble will pop, and we’ll end up with AI used where it actually works, not shoved into everything. In the long run, that pop could be a small blip in overall development, like the dot-com bust was to the growth of the internet, but it’s difficult to predict that while still in the middle of the hype cycle.
Isn’t that how innovation has always worked?
I feel like all this AI hate is comparable to any other innovation cycle.
Millions of light fabric and dowels wasted on crack pot “air heads” trying to design first ever flying vehicle
randy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What I don’t get is the snobby attitude towards it though. I’ve commented else where that it has all the hallmarks of being a manufactured outrage. It has all the same earmarks of any other media driven hate fest.
FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Allow me to offer reasons why: just like the blockchain before, the usage of resources is absurd (which is infuriating) for something that barely works (which is laughable), and the tech is being pushed by the same loathable and arrogant grifters that lead us into a wall at full throttle with crypto.
I’m not just snobbing the naive optimists: I’m actually mad at them for what they’re doing to the environment.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What crypto wall? Isn’t it back up?
I’d rather have all the AI and crypto than any streaming service or social media that everyone who complains about resources seems to use freely.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s massively easier to build a plane than a brain.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Tell that to a bronze age engineer, and they will probably respond that those two are closer to each other than they are to his best efforts. And he would probably be right.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think there’s more AI hate because it’s being pushed onto users that didn’t ask for it and don’t want it from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Amazon. And I think it’s warranted!
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But how does that impact you?
Like when is AI being shoved into your day
JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Google added it to their search by default, I had to change my default search to exclude. Same with my Android phone, I got prompted to switch from Google Assistant to Bard and declined. Really glad I did since I later read about how awful it is. Yesterday I saw a copilot icon in Teams that I have to use for work. I clicked it out of curiosity and it showed an error and then wouldn’t let me use Teams for 5 minutes. When I finally got in the copilot button was gone lol.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yea I guess for me Google already sucks without AI and beyond that I don’t have issues or bugs anymore than usual. But I also use chatgpt for things to do I find it useful. Even right now I’m asking if to give me some prompts to code while I learn different design patterns. Like asking it what is a good decorator use case.