Will it crash, though? It’s replacing people, and people are expensive.
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Crash can’t come soon enough
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yes. This tech can’t replace people like some think it can. Most companies aren’t reducing head count just outsourcing.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
and only keep around a couple senior engineers, employees to manage those outsourced people, since the outsourced people may not be on par with stateside employees.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s doing a shit job at replacing people, it’s still too prone to hallucinating for the vast majority of its applications.
In many of the applications where AI has replaced people the promised performance gains never materialized because of the insane amount of babysitting a LLM agent requires.
Doesn’t matter if it can write 10 hours of code in 5 minutes if you still need a software dev to troubleshoot the output for 25 hours.
They have like 90% reliability (figure pulled directly from my ass) but they need 99.99% reliability to actually be effectively reliable.
They’ve burned through all their hype and still haven’t made it reliable yet. I think they’re not going to get it done before the bubble collapses.
It’ll be similar to the dotcom boom, infinite hype implosion collapses the market to a few core players and then those core players will get there over the next 15 years.
Isn’t going to disappear but it’s absolutely going to fade into the background of day to day life.
SkaraBrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“We need a new plague” - Dwight Schrute
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The people can stay, it is the AI that has to go.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
From a long term environmental standpoint that’s not at all clear cut.
We objectively have too many humans in our biosphere for our current rate of resource consumption and we should significantly drop the overall number.
However, our current standard of living is mostly the result of a shared economy where we pool and share our resources and have a shit ton of people working.
Right now neural network algorithms consume a lot of processing power and resources, but they also solve whole new classes of automations problems that computers haven’t been able to solve before.
If we actually want to maintain our standard of living and reduce the population size, we may very well need AI automation utilities. They can keep scaling down in size and power consumption in the way that a real human can’t.
Soggy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stop this ecofascist shit.
We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.
Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.
Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.
We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Theoreticisizing LLM’s usefulness and resourcefulness doesn’t help you there. For now they are rather useless embaracingly inefficient resoucehogs existing purely because of the bubble. It’s a gamble at best, or a waste of resources and a degradation of human workforce at worst.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
Nah people are terrible
regedit@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why are you still here?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The ones advocating for corporate greed and AI are the same ones talking about a birth rate crisis. I guess they just want more proles to slave for them and damn the ones who die young in the process.
Fuck this timeline
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
i see some state universities around saying the same, thing trying to blame the low enrollment crisis, to low birth rates, and not because COVID exposed the low job prospects and HCOL of post graduation.
hairyfeet@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Are you one of the too many people?
SkaraBrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol. I thought the “crash can’t come soon enough” line was hilariously close to Dwight’s line. It was a joke. I guess everybody missed it. Fair enough, too, it was a joke from a comedy program… Why would anyone think that was supposed to be funny.