I use it at work loads as a software developer. It’s incredibly useful.
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drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why we need an anti-AI movement too…
Because it’s mostly a financial scam hedging that there will be some massive revolution in physical hardware technology that isn’t coming. And that’s just to solve the existing problems in a power efficient manner, that’s to say absolutely nothing about the complete fantasy people have about it solving all the world’s problems or becoming more than a power hungry guesser.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 10 months ago
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How much electricity was used to train Copilot? How much MORE is going to be used in the future.
Feels to me like you don’t understand the problem set and you’re just impressed by a tool spitting out guesses based on millions of examples it hoovered up.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
Oh no, electricity! If only there were some way to generate more of it.
This "it uses electricity" thing is such a weird objection. Yes, it uses electricity. That's why it costs money to run. People pay that money to run it, and if it wasn't helpful enough to be worth that money they wouldn't pay it.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, for those of you that don’t know your ass from your elbow, these systems are predicted to reach 1 gigawatt per data center up from 50 to 75MW, 100 at the peak. So a 10 to 20 times increase in power, now, I don’t know where you think we’re going to get 10 to 20 times. More power for every single built data center, but you’re smoking crack if you think it’s reasonable.
Not only that, but there’s this little issue we’ve been noticing for the past 100 years called climate change. Have you heard of it? It’s truly idiotic to consider increasing the demands of these data centers by 10 to 20 times while we’re talking about complete global catastrophe within 50 to 100 years. Monumentally stupid shit.
And then, of course, we have the people that don’t understand how electronics work. People that might drive by and say will reduce the amount of power these systems need. No, we won’t. We will reduce the amount of joules per operation, but will increase the number of operations drastically. Thereby, causing the power demand to increase. These numbers aren’t for me, they’re from actual industry insiders designing the far future generations of these products.
Nice attempt with a snark, you’ve proven. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Thank you for playing.
mrnotoriousman@kbin.social 10 months ago
I work on AI and it feels to me like you literally don't understand it at all based on your comments in this thread. But you sure do have all the buzzwords down pat.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
He thinks LLMs could be replaced by a "text template", so yeah, this guy's clearly not actually tried using it for anything meaningful before.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would love an example of something I got wrong.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
It isn't hedging on anything. It's already here, it already works. I run an LLM on my home computer, using open-source code and commodity hardware. I use it for actual real-world problems and it helps me solve them.
At this point the ones who are calling it a "fantasy" are the delusional ones.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
By it’s already here, and it already works, you mean guessing the next token? That’s not really intelligence. In any sense, let alone the classical sense. Any allegedly real world problem you’re solving with it. It’s not a real world problem. It’s likely a problem you could solve with a text template.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
It works for what I need it to do for me. I don't really care what word you use to label what it's doing, the fact is that it's doing it.
If you think LLMs could be replaced with a "text template" you are completely clueless.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not sure you understand what the LLM is doing, or how support responses have been optimized over the decades. Or even how “AI” responses have worked for the past couple decades. But I’m glad you’ve got an auto-responder that works for you.
themurphy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s fine you don’t believe in AI as a tool.
But it’s literally saving me 1-2 hours each week on my real world job, and I didn’t even try to use its potential. My guess is I can automate 5 hours if I made an effort.
I enjoy my new 2 hours of free time each week every week this year. Try not to hate the AI, because I think everyone could use that time too.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cool, 1-2 hours a WEEK. So that’s 2.5 - 5% of your time, and this is supposed to impress anybody at all? Oh, and the company selling the AI nonsense to your company is making more from the licensing than your hours would cost your employer. So honestly, who’s making out best in this scenario?
My guess is the instant you attempt to automate “5 hours” of your work, or about 12.5% of your time, you’re going to spend 2 hours verifying the things it guessed and fixing them.
You know what I do instead? Enjoy those 2 hours regardless. What kind of dystopian hell do you live in where you’re struggling to find 2 hours in an 8 hour workday? Good god.
jackoneill@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bruh…… on an average 8 hour workday I log 10-12 billable hours in tickets, or projects, or whatever I happen to be working on. That’s from overlap/multitasking as I’m constantly interrupted in my talks to help others with theirs. I’m lucky to get 2 minutes to catch my breath
drdabbles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like you should manage your time better, or hire employees. Having a word guesser respond to customers saving you single digit percentage points of time isn’t really making the difference that you think it is.