Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change

• brianpeiris@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Very similar to crypto, the AI hype is sustained by some future promise that never comes true.

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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • brianpeiris@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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      • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Didn’t you hear about the scandals with Steam and Itch with traditional centralised payment processors? Decentralised payments like crypto are a method of solving that issue.

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    • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Neither AI, nor Crypto have had any meaningful positive impact on the world.

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