Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bubble is an econ term. Whether there is an AI bubble has a rather tenuous connection to the future of AI. Not much of a connection between the housing bubble and the future of housing either.

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Feel like the internet bubble is an even better comparison, the internet is completely ubiquitous now

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes but my point is, a brick layer isn’t the best person to ask about the future of housing.

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Feels more like the brick layer is equivalent to someone paid to create training data. You absolutely would want to ask the architects and engineers researching no ways in housing and construction. Not that they know what avenues of research will work out, but they do know the avenues of research.

      No one expected the splash that LLMs or image diffusion models would make. Years later, the conversations on Lemmy are still dominated by people who still haven’t looked up how they work.

      GPTs completely nuked the whole field of natural language processing (NLP). People had dedicated years of their lives to solving tiny aspects of that. That got solved practically over night. Sentiment analysis? Just ask the chatbot. Some of the seemingly smart people who make seemingly informed criticisms of LLMs are NLP guys, who just can’t let go of their old ideas.

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