Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThis research is cooking us alive right now and for what? So machines can do all the creative things while we fight for scraps? I‘d rather the overly rich spend it on something harmless but silly. At least the average joe can make a living producing luxury items. As grim as it sounds but that‘s preferable to what‘s coming.
JealousJail@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I believe that we are not yet in the end stage of AI. LLMs are certainly useful, but they cannot solve the most important problems of mankind.
More research is required to solve e.g. a) Sustainable Energy Supply b) Imbalanced demographies of industrialized countries c) Treatment of several diseases
Like it or not, AI that can do research for us, or even increase efficiency of human researchers, is the most promising trajectory for accelerating progress on these important problems.
Right now, AI has not exceeded this scope. Yeah, AI can generate quite realistic fake videos. But propaganda has been possible before (look at China, Russia or Nazi Germany).
As a researcher in the domain, let me tell you that no one who seriously knows about video generation etc. is afraid of the current state of AI