Honestly, I can say I don’t really get it either. I would only use the open source models anyway, but it just seems rather silly from what I can tell.
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WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I really don’t understand the hype about AI in it’s current state.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would only use the open source models anyway, but it just seems rather silly from what I can tell.
I feel like the last few months have been an inflection point, at least for me. Qwen 2.5 34B/72B, and the new Command-R, really make a 3090 feel “dumb, but smart,” useful enough so I pretty much always keep 34B loaded on the desktop.
It’s still in the realm of enthusiast hardware, but hopefully that’s about to be shaken up.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What do you think about the possibility of decentralized AI through blockchain so that you could pay some tokens or something like that to rent the GPUs to run your AI for as long as you wish to instead of having to buy all the hardware and assemble it yourself?
woop_woop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I cannot tell if you are being serious or just having fun with buzzwords
grozzle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
you mean a computing pool, like SETI@home since the late 90s?
absolutely no need to make this idea stink of a crypto scam.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can do already do it but there isn’t really any need for a blockchain. I personally use runpod but there’s vaste.ai and a few others.
It’s usually quite cheap.
x2Zero7@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Tbh it’s just hard to see the value proposition in the age of cloud computing. I think aspects of the underlying technology are cool but basically every crypto project that comes to mind has been an actual scam. Sure there’s eth and RDNR that was built on top of it but why should i spend what will ultimately be more money in periods of high demand (gas goes up when more people use the network) when i can just plug my credit card into amazon or microsoft AND get the benefit of infosec regulation like PCI-DSS. Crypto just doesn’t ever inspire confidence because bad actors consistently shit in the punch bowl while providing no extra utility over existing cloud providers.
When distilled down crypto-compute just seems like cloud compute with extra steps, which is already just using a computer with extra steps.
We already can rent GPUs to run AIs with tokens - those tokens are just managed by govt instead of some random.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I somehow didnt’ get a notification for its post, but thats a terrible idea lol.
We already have AI horde, and it has nothing to do with blockchain.
Beldarofremulak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you trying to solve science with it or something? You are supposed to turn carefully worded sentences into funny pictures and show people.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Maybe that explains it. Because I am blind, pictures mean very little to me. I think image memes were one of the most abhorrent things to ever exist. Because I miss out on so much because of that.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Have you tried music generation? That’s also fun. There are a bunch.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s all it is, is hype. It’s another bubble. A pump and dump scheme for hedgies.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t matter. Just understand that there are people who get paid way more than the average joe to hype the shit out these companies to attract investor value. Then get mad at capitalism like the rest of us.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
MBA degrees are way to easy to obtain. And the federal government bailing things out for a few decades has taught the market that they can take huge risks without much direct risk.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 months ago
That’s because we’re using it wrong. It’s not a genie you go to for answers to your problems, it’s mighty putty. You could build a house out of it, but it’s wildly expensive and not at all worth it. But if you want to stick a glass bottle to a tree, or fix a broken plastic shell back together, it’s great
For example, you can have it do a web search, read through the results to see if it actually contains what you’re looking for, then summarize what it found and let you jump right there to evaluate yourself. You could have it listen to your podcasts and tag them by topic. You could write a normal program to generate a name and traits of a game character, then have the AI write flavor text and dialog trees for quest chains
Those are some projects I’ve used AI for - specifically, local AI running on my old computer. I’m looking to build a new one
I also use chat gpt to write simple but tedious code on a weekly basis for my normal job - things like “build a class to represent this db object”. I don’t trust it to do anything that’s not straightforward - I don’t trust myself to do anything tedious
The AI is not an expert, I am. The AI is happy to do busy work, every second of it increases my stress level. AI is tireless, it can work while I sleep. AI is not efficient, but it’s flexible. My code is efficient, but it is not flexible
As a part of a system, AI is the link between unstructured data and code, which needs structure. It let’s you do things that would have required a 24/7 team of dozens of employees. It also is unable to replace a single human - just like a computer
That’s my philosophy at least, after approaching LLMs as a new type of tool and studying them as a developer. Like anything else, I ran it on my own computer and poked and prodded it until I saw the patterns. I learned what it could do, and what it struggled to do. I learned how to use it, I developed methodologies. I learned how to detect and undo “rampancy”, a number of different failure states where it degrades into nonsense. And I learned how to use it as another tool in my toolbox, and I pride myself on using the right tool for the job
This is a useful tool - I repeatedly have used it to do things I couldn’t have done without it. This is a new tool - artisans don’t know how to use it yet. I can build incredible things with this tool with what I know now, and other people are developing their own techniques to great effect. We will learn how to use this tool, even in its current state. It will take time, its use may not be obvious, but this is a very useful tool
Specal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re doing it wrong, you’re only allowed to hate AI and if you don’t you’re a crypto shill or something idk
casmael@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s just the new grift. There’s probably some value in there somewhere, some elements of it that will evolve into useful tools that get used a lot and presumably make a bunch of money for someone but yeah. Grifters gonna grift.
Tire@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I like it. I use it every day. Much faster and better than sifting through garbage websites to find answers.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How’s the glue on your pizza working out?
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Possibly correct answers lol
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You must not be feeling the AGI.
Fester@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s all leading to one final product: VR sex robots
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I saw a documentary about that.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It better.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Like your optimism, but unlikely