There is a BIG difference between what you can do and what you should do.
We have ZERO understanding on the long term effects this new technology will have on our civilization.
Why is everybody so eager to go “all in”?
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PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
The amount of failed efforts the ruling class has made to corner ai shows me that it is a democratizing force.
I reap benefits from it already.
I can create local models with zero involvement from billionaires.
It scares them more than us.
And it should. It shows how evil they are. It’s objectively true. Ai knows it.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
We have zero understanding of the long term effect of any new tech on our civilization
But we know those who adopt early and gain mastery quickly are set up better for success in the future.
Every time.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Not understanding sparrows role in the game caused the Four Pests campaign. MILLIONS DEAD.
The ecological repercussions translated into a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions. The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people.
Womble@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We also didnt understand how the internet would change the world, still went ahead with it. We didnt understand how computers would change the world, still went ahead with it, we didnt understand how the steam engine would change the world… etc etc.
No one can know how a new invention will change things, but you are not going to be able to crush human’s innate creativity and drive to try new things. Sometimes those things are going to be a net negative and that’s bad, but the alternative is to insist nothing new is tried and thats A bad and B not possible.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah let’s abandon all tech and return to god or something.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Sort of like what the tobacco industry did? Hide the truth under corporate profits?
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Ai gave me cancer lol. You’re conflating being a product of a new system vs being a pioneer in using a new system.
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Interesting take. I hope you are right.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Me too
nadram@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But you’re using these billionaires’ ai models are you not? Even if you use the free models they still benefit from your profile and query data
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Nope :)
Deepseek GitHub fork ftw
Tax billionaires til they don’t exist ! Or some other way!
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep you can run models without giving $$ to tech billionaires!
Now we are giving it to the power billionaires! unless you own your own power sources.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Luckily deep seek uses less power than any locally run models. Can run it on almost any modernish machine
einkorn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Uhm, I guess you missed the news when it was revealed that Deepseek had a little more backing than they claimed.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah they were sponsored
But the code is open sourced.
So
FOSS FTW
nadram@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Will have a look, thx.