Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion

Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Madrigal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It has its uses, but it us being massively overhyped.

  Having trialled Copilot and a few other AI tools in my workplace, I can confidently says it’s a minor productivity booster.

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    apparently so far the research disagrees with the productivity claims cio.com/…/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai…

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This work will have lots of applications in the future. I personally stay as far away from it as I can because I just have zero need for it to write souless birthday card messages for me but to act like the work is doing nothing is kinda stupid.

  Every stage it’s been at people would say “oh this can’t even do X” and then it could and they’d so “oh it can’t do Y” and then it could and they’d say…do I really need to go on?

  The biggest issue with it all right, for me anyway, now is that we’re trying to use it for the absolute dumbest shit imaginable and investors are throwing tonnes of money, that could solve real problems we don’t need AI for, into the grinder while poverty and climate change run rampant around us.

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• otter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like blockchain there is some niche usefulness to the technology, but also like blockchain it’s being applied to a myriad of things it is not useful for.

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  • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody has been able to properly explain to me any actual use-case for blockchain. The most common example people try to use is smart contracts. You know, because contract signing before was this cumbersome process that is only improved if a global network of computers all agree that the contract was signed.

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    • abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Drugs(silk road), scams&malware(pay 5 Bitcoin to unlock PC), money laundering&pump dump (unregulated market), and Nvidia hype (should have bought amd at 5$)

      “we ran out of useful things to do with computing at the consumer level and now we are inventing problems” - “just bill’em” gates, 1984.

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also it’s not fucking ai is it. I actually find the blatant misuse of this term incredibly annoying to be honest.

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    • anonymous111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, no one seems to raise this anymore. AI to me has always been something akin to computer sentience.

      Things like ‘self healing’ systems are being badeged as AI when they’re little more than an application load balancer.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is. The AI Effect just means the goalposts for what people think of as “proper” AI are constantly moving.

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      • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This might be the case ‘in the industry’, but I would argue quite strongly that it represents a gross misuse of the word ‘intelligence’. Like a fun new definition of the word, that doesn’t mean anything close to what it usually means.

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Arguably you are the one misusing the term. Even painfully mundane tasks like the A* pathfinding algorithm fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence. It’s a big, big (like, stupidly big) field.

      You are right that it’s not AGI, but very few people (outside of marketing) claim that it is.

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      • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m going to argue quite strongly that my general, all purpose understanding of the words ‘artificial’ and ‘intelligence’ constitute the ‘correct’ definition for the term, and I don’t really care how ‘ai’ is defined ‘in industry’. It’s not intelligent, therefore it’s not artificial intelligence. You can redefine ‘intelligent’ in this context to mean whatever you like, but unless the general definition of the word changes then it doesn’t mean jack about shit.

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