Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
eltrain123@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do people really not understand that we are in the early stages of ai development? The first time most people were made aware of LLMs was, like, 6 months ago. What ChatGPT can do is impressive for a self contained application, but is far from mature enough to do the things people are complaining it can’t do.
The point the industry is trying to warn about is that this technology is past its infancy and moving into, from a human comparison standpoint, childhood or adolescence. But, it iterates significantly faster than humans, so the time it can do the type of things people are bitching about is years, not decades, away.
If you think businesses have sunk this much money and effort into AI and didn’t do a cost-benefit analysis that stretched out decades, you are being naive or disingenuous.
Do people really not understand that we are in the early stages of ai development?
Yes. Top post in this thread is someone cheering that AI won’t replace people in hollywood.
Just give it time. Remember how poor voice recognition and translation software was at first?
Top post in this thread is someone cheering that AI won’t replace people in hollywood.
I really like how I’m just “someone” here now.
To be fair, who pays attention to user names?
I do. 🥺
pretty much all improvements aren’t “better tech”, but just “bigger tech”. Reducing their footprint is an unsolved problem (just like it has always been with neural networks, for decades)
Optimization is a problem that cannot be “solved” by definition, but a lot of work is being done on it with some degree of success
flumph@programming.dev 11 months ago
Are you kidding? We literally just watched the same bubble and burst in companies that rushed to get their piece of the Metaverse and NFT cash grab. I worked at a SaaS company that decided to add AI features because it was in the news and Azure offered it as a service. There was zero financial analysis done, just like for every other feature they added
I’m sure Microsoft has a plan since they invested heavily. But even Google is playing catch-up like they did with GCP.
atetulo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
AI is actually useful.
The metaverse and NFTs aren’t.
Your analogy is not a 1:1 representation of the situation and only serves to distract from the topic at hand.
jj4211@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But there is a similarity, the hype pulls in all sorts of companies to blindly add buzzwords without even knowing how it might possibly apply to their product, even if it were the perfect realization of the ideal.
Yes AI techniques obviously have utility. 90% of the spend is by companies that don’t even know what that utility might be. With that much noise, it’s hard to keep track of the value.
atetulo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes, I see what you are saying. I guess we can add ‘blockchain’ to that list, then.