Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
@ludicity Very enjoyable read, thank you.
I wish there was some mention of the energy costs / climate impact of the tech tho, which TBH is what worries me the most.
@rhempel @ludicity I don't give a rat's ass about AI shutting down.
I am worried that all the energy consumed is adding up to the climate collapse.
It's just the most obvious example of how we're destroying the planet to follow the whims of a few charismatic egomaniac assholes.
When the AI bubble pops, the above mentioned assholes will jump on the next hype wagon and find another way to abuse the stupidly large amount of computing power deployed for LLMs and continue to fry the planet to show how visionary they are to their equally idiot peers and sycophants.
Crypto, blockchains, LLMs... The hardware is there, they'll find something.
Corporate America has invested far too much money in AI to simply shut it down. They will always find a way to profit from it-- they already are.
Not only are they selling indiv subscriptions for versions of their chatbots, image generators, etc., but they are also selling the use of their AI to other companies to incorporate into their systems.
They're using their own AI to compile everyone's data and to find new ways to sell us stuff.
It's NOT going away.
@TheManyVoices @rhempel @xarvh Of course it will not go "away" - your observations are right. The investment has been spectacular. But some of it will go away when it doesn't pan out. Every organization I know is spinning up pointless chatbots in-house. Some of that stuff will evaporate as the C-suite leaves and the new batch axes old projects (as @rhempel says) to look like they're shaking things up.
They'll invest in something silly immediately after, but it'll be a NEW silly thing.
@xarvh @rhempel True, though I should point out the LLM revolution is slightly unique. They don't need engineering discipline - you just make an OpenAI request. If they move on to something else, it might suck, but it is actually harder to damage the environment through something like a data governance hypefest (unless it's GPU or blockchain powered).
These are idle thoughts though, it could still go terribly and I haven't thought on what's next deeply.