Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How long does AI need to be used, and how much demand needs to be sustained, for it to stop being called a "buzzword"? I'm a little dubious that NVIDIA became literally the most highly-valued company on Earth off the back of a mere "buzzword."

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t seem like end users are the ones demanding AI.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am an end user and I find it quite handy for a number of applications.

      The reasoning "I don't find it useful and therefore nobody finds it useful" is common in these sorts of threads.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not what I said. But if the sentiment is that common, maybe there’s something to it.

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    • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m an end user and I demand text to speech AI

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you reminds us what the current state of NFTs is? Or most crypto? Web3 tech? This is next.

    Of course Nvidia are the highest-valued company. They capitalized on idiots misusing the technology, until it created issues in society, for personal gain.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you remind me how those technologies are related, other than the mere accusation of them being "buzzwords"?

      Cryptocurrency is actually doing fine, BTW. Just because you don't find it useful doesn't mean it's not useful to other people.

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      • Mikina@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Crypto is doing kind-of ok. But what about other blockchain apps and startups, or blockchain integrations into every tech imaginable? There were so many popping up, just like there are with AI now. That is the point.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why are you explicitly picking those examples, and not things like IoT, DevOps and Edge computing, all buzzwords, all successful and still in general existence today?

      You’re cherry picking failed buzzwords and using them as proof that “AI” will fail.

      To be clear, I agree that LLMs are bullshit for 95% of applications they are being put into. But at least argue in good faith.

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      • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I chose those examples, because that’s what’s been heavily marketed recently, and it all either fundamentally failed, ended up being a scam, or both.

        In contrast:

        • devops is software automation practices…?
        • edge computing is on-call load balancing? It’s horrendously expensive though, so i’ll give them time to figure it out
        • IoT, admittedly, is largely oversold, but even then, there were a ton of products on the market that absolutely outlived all 3 of the examples i’ve given, combined. HomeAssistant+Zigbee home automation is awesome. A raspberryPi is “iot”. Your smartwatch is “iot”.

        There’s a difference between cherry-picking, and refusing to accept that something is a scam. Crypto ended up begging for government regulation, when the original intention was to move away from it. NFTs are a pump-and-dump ponzi scheme. web3 literally doesn’t mean anything

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    • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do any of those things have anything to do with LLMs? You’re just listing a bunch of random tech that isn’t particularly impactful and claiming that another unrelated thing must be a failure.

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  • unautrenom@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AI may have its uses, but the easy counterpoint to your argument is to look at FTX at its peak and where it is now (bankrupt). The stock exchange is the exact opposite of rational, and is terrible at estimating the use one can get out of tech.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      FTX was a cryptocurrency exchange, how is that remotely similar to NVIDIA?

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