Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The only solace I find in this is that AI, and AGI specifically, is probably a massive grift that will crash spectacularly at some point.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Like crypto?
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Very similar to crypto, the AI hype is sustained by some future promise that never comes true.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
AI, crypto, just like .com, are very much very real, valuable technologies that have and will continue to stick around and be used until we destroy ourselves, or something even more advanced comes along.
What was/is a grift, is all the stupid money and people around it that don’t have a damn clue where the limits of the technologies actually lie, what kinds of real problems are solved and have been sold lies stop lies without doing their due diligence.
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I agree with this, mostly. The tech is real – The blockchain has solid math behind it. I don’t know if I agree with its value though. The viable usecases are significantly limited compared to the hype behind them. Bitcoin for example is still inherently inefficient compared to conventional payment systems. AI feels a lot like that – lots of hype with very little substance at its core.
CXORA@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Neither AI, nor Crypto have had any meaningful positive impact on the world.