Cloud everything, saas, and offshore workers are all still things that have been negatively affecting people for years and never really went away even if the hype died down.
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days agoLLMs have a more mystical pull than other previous hypes, but look at what happened with crypto and blockchain. Every fucking government and company was saying that its the future and now nobody gives a shit about those anymore. It might be later than you and i would like, but eventually it will pass.
greenskye@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Cloud computing is slowly crumbling too. At least in germany more and more companies are going back to on prem, because there are just a bunch of studies showing that cloud stuff is more expensive, less flexible and often actually has more downtime. But unlike other stupid projects you cant just reverse the move to cloud in a few months, it will take years to unfuck everything.
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or it will become foundational tech like the Internet. People said that was a fad too.
It all depends on whether or not it becomes reliable and cheap.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Idk why you are being downvoted. It is a real possiblity, but i just dont think its likely.
Because it simply wont ever be those things.
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, it will take a substantial change in LLM architecture to make them viable for general use. Like you said, a couple orders of magnitude improvement in training would be the biggest help.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The internet was successful because it was predictable and reliable and filled a previously unserved purpose. LLMs could possibly serve a purpose creating text that doesn’t need to be correct or accurate, but it won’t replace anything that requires any level of accuracy or accountability because the design is inherently flawed due to being a prediction algorithm.
There are uses for pattern matching AI that will continue to be tools used by humans to help focus efforts in massively complex work, but they won’t ever be foundational replacements.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Oh yeah for sure there are plenty of great uses for machine learning, i would never deny that.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Get blocked Ai apologist.
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How is what I said AI apologism? I clearly expressed concern that the technology isn’t reliable or cheap.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 day ago
Ignore the troll