Comment on Microsoft and Alphabet results show Wall Street only cares about AI
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can’t wait for this AI bubble to fizzle. It’s the blockchain insanity all over again.
It’s not quite blockchain. It is incredibly useful in a broad range of applications, and has genuinely changed how millions of people work. Sure it’s not the magic bullet wall street thinks it is, but my work has been improved immensely through the use of generative AI. Especially with uniquely challenging software problems and niche questions.
I think it’ll be similar to VR. Extremely useful and interesting, but over-hyped and not going to penetrate our lives as much as most people think.
My mom never used VR, but she happily talks to GPT4. From that perspective I think mindshare in the broader population will be significantly higher than VR (even if it doesn’t live up to the hype VC/Wallstreet machine).
If you had to buy an expensive headset to use chatGPT she wouldn’t either.
If she had wheels she’d be a wagon.
Even if I would gift one to her she wouldn’t use it. VR headset is peak nerd shit, as much as I love it. Having a dialog with an AI is much more approachable to the layman.
I'm still waiting for the electricity bubble to fizzle.
pretty sure it’ll take nuclear war to pop that one
I actually made a ton of money riding the hype train on a lot of those shit coins 🤣
I got burned a few times but at that point I was already playing with profit and not really gambling with my own money.
Key word here: GAMBLE
Only if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Oh damn, this couldn’t be more wrong.
danielbln@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe, but gen AI produces actually useful, tractable results. That’s already heaps more than crypto, which is just techno gambling
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As long as LLM AI models are prone to hallucinating and there is no way to audit how they derive results (eg to verify accuracy), relying on them will have roadblocks/limitations. Once they solve this issue though, that will be a whole different story, I agree. As for other AIs such as image or video generation, I don’t have enough experience to tell…
danielbln@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hallucinations can be heavily reduced today by providing the LLM with grounding truth. People use naked LLMs as knowledge databases, which is prone to hallucinations indeed. However, provide them with verified data from the side and they are very, very good at keeping to the truth. I know, because we deploy these with clients to great avail.
Image, music, video models are making great strides and are already part of various pipelines, all the way up to the big boy tools like Photoshop (generative fill, for example).
The tech is being incorporated at a large scale by a lot of companies, from SME to megacorp. I don’t see it going away any time soon, even if it doesn’t improve from here on out (which it undoubtedly will).
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
The issue is that there are from time to time they still confidently hallucinate and there is no way to detect if they are right or not.
mojo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How many countries start with the letter K in Africa?
rambaroo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hallucinations aren’t the only issue with LLMs, they also have a limited amount of context they can recall and that problem won’t go away.
SCB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That problem is very much being worked on
Cheers@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This mentality is the same as saying Wikipedia is not a source. I agree, there are better regulations that need to be implemented, but the speed at which these things are being churned out and tuned is mind blowing. It’s like if Wikipedia started branching off into sub categories that each have their own specialty, which can be more easily moderated, and then folded back into the more general system.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Errr, what other alternatives are there to the fiat markets?