What’s funny is that we already have general intelligence in billions of brains. What tech bros what is a general intelligence slave.
Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble
4vgj0e@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I find it insane when “tech bros” and AI researchers at major tech companies try to justify the wasting of resources (like water and electricity) in order to achieve “AGI” or whatever the fuck that means in their wildest fantasies.
These companies have no accountability for the shit that they do and consistently ignore all the consequences their actions will cause for decades down the road.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well put.
I’m sure plenty of people would be happy to be a personal assistant for searching, summarizing, and compiling information, as long as they were adequately paid for it.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It’s research. Most of it never pans out, so a lot of it is “wasteful”. But if we didn’t experiment, we wouldn’t find the things that do work.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most of the entire AI economy isn’t even research. It’s just grift. Slapping a label on ChatGPT and saying you’re an AI company. It’s hustlers trying to make a quick buck from easy venture capital money.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can probably say the same about all fields, even those that have formal protections and regulations. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t people that have PhD’s in the field and are trying to improve it for the better.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sure but typically that’s a small part of the field. With AI it’s a majority, that’s the difference.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Is it really a grift when you are selling possible value to an investor who would make money from possible value?
As in, there is no lie, investors know it’s a gamble and are just looking for the gamble that everyone else bets on, not that it l would provide real value.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would classify speculation as a form of grift. Someone gets left holding the bag.
4vgj0e@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I agree, but these researchers/scientists should be more mindful about the resources they use up in order to generate the computational power necessary to carry out their experiments. AI is good when it gets utilized to achieve a specific task, but funneling a lot of money and research towards general purpose AI just seems wasteful.
AssaultPepper@monero.town 1 week ago
I mean general purpose AI doesn’t cap out at human intelligence, of which you could utilize to come up with ideas for better resource management.
Could also be a huge waste but the potential is there… potentially.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think I’ve heard a lot of actual research in the AI area not connected to machine learning (which may be just one component, not really necessary at that).