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irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 days agoand it doesn’t help that corpos insist on cramming LLMs into usecases that aren’t applicable to LLMs at all
I am reminded of back in the late 60s to 70s we did a lot of studies on left handed people and our kneejerk reaction to try and change their dominant hand. We decided that left handed people were absolutely normal, leave them be and stop stressing out adolescents by trying to make them ‘normal’, because they already are. BTW the practice of changing dominant hands goes all the way back to the Catholic church during the middle ages. Anyways, when corporate America heard the news, they started producing all manner of left handed tools, which was helpful, but their motivation was $$. Same with LGBTQ+++. Corporate America capitalized on every aspect.
However, if you plunk down your hard earned money for an AI rice cooker, you’re the idiot and P.T. Barnum would be right once again.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think the feeling is the same, but the cause is a bit different. It is more similar to the dot-com bubble, where investors (for some reason?) are hyped to throw their money into AI. So if you can market yourself as AI, you can get big investments. Now that you have all that investor cash, you need to justify it somehow by using AI somewhere, anywhere.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ve dealt with VC back when I ran an internet radio station. There is pressure to incorporate their wishes, because, well, they want an ROI on their investment.