the housing bubble.
ai is probably close second though.
poo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No bubble has deserved to pop as much as AI deserves to
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Disaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Maybe real estate?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try Venice Ai, free to use, won’t try to censor your topics. Still just a chat bot though (although I think it does image generation too).
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m sorry, what about their comment made you think they were asking for reccomendations?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The part where they were saying they don’t like the current AIs they know about.
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
Censoring topics is the least of the issues with the AI bubble.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think all the crypto scams, all the shitcoins, NFTs and other blockchain bullshit were much worse. At least AI companies usually don’t require you to give them large sums of money, they’re only after your data and absolutely fuck the environment by wasting absurd amounts of power, but they don’t try to take away your life savings
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Blockchain and crypto were worse. „AI” has some actual use even if it’s way overblown.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Creating a specialized neural net to perform a specific function is cool. Slapping GPT into customer support because you like money is horse shit and I hope your company collapses. But yeah you’re right. Blockchain was a solution with basically no problems to fix. Neural nets are a tool that can do a ton of things, but everyone is content to use them as a hammer.
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Yes! “AI” defined as only LLMs and the party trick applications is a bubble. AI in general has been around for decades and will only continue to grow.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Crypto has a legitimate value, you can buy drugs with it.
Graphy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly kinda miss when the drugs I did were illegal. I used to buy weed from this online seller that was really into designer drugs. The amount of time I used to spend on Erowid just to figure out wtf I was about to take.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m glad you didn’t say NFTs because my Bored Ape will regain and triple its value any day now!
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Bro the GME short squeeze is going to hit any day now. We’re going to be millionaires bro, you just wait
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Die almond hands, bro! We’re all gonna make it, bro!!! Trust the code, bro!!!
confusedbytheBasics@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Blockchain has many valuable uses. A distributed zero trust ledger is useful. Sadly the finance scammers and the digital beanie baby collectors attracted all the marketing money.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And yet, every single company that has ever tried to implement a distributed zero trust ledger into their products and processes has inevitably ditched the idea after releasing that it does not, in fact, provide any useful benefit.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is exceptionally useful for the auditing of damn near everything in digital space, as long as shared resources and 3rd parties have access to the blockchain … which is probably the major reason companies and politicians don’t want anything to do with it.
It’d be a lot harder to hide crimes, fraud, grey business dealings, bribery and illegal donations, sanction violations, etc, etc if every event in the entire financial system and supply chain was logged and verifiable.
Thrashy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The idea has merit, in theory – but in practice, in the vast majority of cases, having a trusted regulator managing the system, who can proactively step in to block or unwind suspicious activity, turns out to be vastly preferable to the “code is law” status quo of most blockchain implementations. Not to mention most potential applications really need a mechanism for transactions to clear in seconds, rather than minutes to days, and it’d be preferable if they didn’t need to boil the oceans dry in the process of doing so.
If I was really reaching, I could maybe imagine a valid use case for say, a hypothetical, federated open source game that needed to have a trusted way for every node to validate the creation and trading of loot and items, that could serve as a layer of protection against cheating nodes duping items, for instance. But that’s insanely niche, and for nearly every other use case a database held by a trusted entity is faster, simpler, safer, more efficient, and easier to manage.
dragonlobster@programming.dev 2 months ago
Your second point of trading loot and items got me thinking about my Steam CS:GO skins. Why should I trust a centralized entity like Steam who could at any moment decide to delete all my skins or remove my account for whatever reason with my skins, vs storing those skins in a wallet on a public blockchain for example to keep it’s value and always allow trading? Ofc there will always be a “centralized” smart contract but at least they can’t make changes to it if the smart contract code is audited ,
_bcron_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not even understanding what AI is at this point because there’s no delineation between moderately sophisticated algorithms and things that are orders of magnitude more complex.
I mean, if something like multisampling came out today we’d all know how it’d be marketed
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It’s kinda like saying “transportation” and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.
RarePossum@programming.dev 2 months ago
Because most of them are AI
It’s just once AI becomes useful (and not magical), we tend to stop calling it AI unless AI gets more VC money.
It’s called the AI effect
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Technically speaking how I differentiate it is:
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The AI buzzword means machine learning. You give it a massive dataset and it identifies correlations.
Regular hand-coded AI is mostly simple state machines.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. But companies bought into AI way more than they bought into crypto though, in many outlandish and stupid ways. And many AI companies sell it in ways they shouldn’t.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mean, block chain does have some actual uses, definitely more niche than LLMs though.