Comment on Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI exposes growing rift in AI industry

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup, been saying this wave of “AI” is a fad, the cracks are starting to show…

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  • Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you think that something people are already using to type out dull, routine emails is some kind of fad? It saves time, if you don’t have to spend an extra minute typing out a routine confirmation email, why would you?

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    • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Being a fad is relative. Something that’s hugely popular and being brought up in every industry as a world changing technology for a while before normalizing as something useful in a few areas but not a good fit in many others qualifies as a fad in my book. Most tech fads never go totally away because they’re not useless, they were just overblown.

      Generative ML models certainly are useful and extend what we think of ML traditionally being capable of doing. But the current worldwide AI madness is not due to the merits of Gen ML, it’s because it’s marketed as AI (which to 90 percent of the population means what AGI means to nerds) and makes people think “we’re about to be in terminator any second now” when in reality it means “hey my autocomplete isn’t totally crap anymore”

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      • Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gotcha. I think you’re right about fads, and I agree.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      generating emails that is the worst possible use case of ai. just send me whatever you feed the ai to generate the world salad. i don’t need the word salad, there is nothing wrong with being brief and to the point.

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It's a shame no one has invented copy and paste yet.

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    • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hello,
      Thanks for your message. I'll check the sales figures out as soon.as.I can.

      Best regards
      Norgur

      I couldn't have opened any AI thingy in the time I typed that.

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      • 520@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay, now imagine you have to type out a formal email but are typically shit at that kind of thing.

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    • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because sending and receiving dull emails isnt real work. AI has only replaced bullshit, so far. It just isnt worth the billions these companies claim it is until they find a product and sell it.

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  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it’s not AI and it never was. Calling a t9 artificial intelligence was a great marketing but zero substance

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    • diviledabit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But what if we’re just a very fancy T9 too?

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