Every technology invented is a dual edge sword. Other edge propulses deluge of misinformation, llm hallucinations, brain washing of the masses, and exploit exploit for profit. The better side advances progress in science, well being, availbility of useful knowledge. Like the nuclerbomb, LLM “ai” is currenty in its infancy and is used as a weapon, there is a literal race to who makes the “biggest best” fkn “AI” to dominate the world. Eventually, the over optimistic buble bursts and reality of the flaws and risks will kick in. (Hopefully…)
95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds
Submitted 2 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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JATtho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
AI Spend,
It’s okay to say [spending] when the OOP forgets how to English, right?
world_cavve@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For me that aren’t good with scripting AI can actually fill a educational role. Or at least point me in correct direction so I can complete the rest myself.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I feel like we could find ways and tools to help in that situation without stealing the entirety of human knowledge, boiling our planet, and spending a small nation’s GDP. Like better code library discovery or a better mentor environment amongst coders.
I’ve also seen plenty of people get pointed in the exact wrong way to do things by leaning on generative AI and then have to spend even more time getting back on track.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Emerging technology always loses money in the first few years. Sometimes for a decade or so. This isn’t new.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI isn’t “emerging.” The industry is new, but we’ve had neural networks for decades. They’ve been regularly in use for things like autocorrect and image classification since before the iPhone. Google upgraded Google Translate to use a GPT in 2016 (9 years ago). What’s “emerging” now is just marketing and branding, and trying to shove it into form factors and workloads that it’s not well suited to. Maybe some slightly quicker iteration due to the unreasonable amount of money being thrown at it.
It’s kind of like if a band made a huge deal out of their new album and the crazy new sound it had, but then you listened to it and it was just, like…disco? And disco is fine, but…by itself it’s definitely not anything to write home about in 2025. And then a whole bunch of other bands were like, “yeah, we do disco too!” And some of them were ok at it, and most were definitely not, but they were all trying to fit disco into songs that really shouldn’t have been disco. And every time someone was like, “I kinda don’t want to listen to disco right now,” a band manager said “shut up yes you do.”
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you really want to be reductionist, it’s just electricity being fed through silicon. Everything is. Just 1’s and 0’s repackaged over & over!
But it shows a significant lack of insight and understanding. Guess you can make a ton of money with puts on all these companies, with that kinda confidence.