Comment on Microsoft and Alphabet results show Wall Street only cares about AI
CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I do think there’s some use for AI in its current form (especially AI art as a tool for developing other works, like movies and video games), but I find it bizarre just how much investors value the current form of AI.
As cool as I find AI art, I’m not yet sure about it’s commercial viability, given the serious legal issues it’s facing. So why do investors, who are supposed to care about commercial viability, value it so much?
And for generative text, I have an even more negative stance. My understanding is that the cost to train and run those AIs is ludicrous. Sure, some companies will use it to make blog spam articles or replace their basic support staff with it, but is that really gonna make it profitable?
And I emphasized “current form” because the current AI is basically just predictive text. It’s severely limited and this is extremely evident if you try to ask even basic math problems. It’s not capable of actual intelligence, which is what has me very skeptical of it on the long term. Maybe these companies will come up with a new, better form of AI. Or maybe they won’t. But it doesn’t seem like “just increase the size of the model” is sustainable nor will frankly get closer to strong(ish?) AI.
And I emphasized “current form” because the current AI is basically just predictive text.
This is a program I use daily at work.
It’s a big step away from “predictive text.” This is the AI revolution in action. There are dozens of products you don’t know about shaking up professions you barely ever think about.
I don’t have to build a Content Gen team because of this software, probably ever.
To replace human labor. That what it is about.
Bandwagoning doesn’t require thinking or logic. It’s fomo on capitalism
There’s also no association between the product and it’s value. It’s perceived value only.
Kage520@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I haven’t used this, but think about all narrators losing their jobs because so can do it with the click of a button. …microsoft.com/…/1646266241611394912-project-gute…
That’s a lot of people not on the payroll anymore. No health insurance costs, no vacations. Just using the software.
Think of a lot of analytics jobs that ai can replace. You ever spend a day or two making a spreadsheet do whatever you need it to? That’s probably a lot of people’s jobs. AI can make those people more efficient (as long as a human checks it later), so companies can fire most of the team. That’s a lot more people off the payroll.
And there are companies working on general ai. That will replace… So many jobs.