Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And I am convinced that LLMs are fundamentally incapable of delivering on the promises being made by the AI CEOs.
As a, uh, atypical American, and someone into the ML scene and previously employed in an LLM dev job… I agree.
I don’t think ML is going away, as what’s been made so far are niche tools in the same way a hammer is, but the level of hype and conning is literally criminal.
If you can shift stocks around, take them out of indexes and put the cash in crash-resilient stocks like Berkshire Hathaway (which somewhat famously/infamously saves cash to buy dips during crashes), or Walmart. I’m thinking on such a “Noah’s Ark” basket for myself.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to comment on bonds, gold, or whatever else your savings may be in. But don’t believe a word anyone says to you about crypto.
Start saving a bit extra too, if possible, as the crash may not come for some time.
On the tech side, you can get more into self hosting to not be so dependent on Big Tech. You’re on the perfect site to learn that.
If you ask me, that even includes dabbling in open-weights ML stuff, as that might suddenly become a more critical skill once all the OpenAI hype implodes, and companies sipping the Koolaid turn more practical/frugal.
Other than that… I dunno. Depends on your work and lifestyle, I suppose. I think this will be a bumpy ride no matter what we do.
foggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As a security engineer, I implore anyone to have an LLM walk you through standing up an SIEM.
Like don’t get me wrong. They’re phenomenal. But they just aren’t capable of complex tasks yet.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The current architectures fundamentally aren’t, no matter how big they get or what prompt wrappers they have.
There are some interesting innovations in papers, but the AI hyperscalers seem to have little awareness of them, and I’ve seen so many just drift by these past few years.