I feel like I've been hearing someone say AI is going to change everything for years now and we've had some cool advancements like better language translations, voice emulation, image generation and enhancement, some barebones essay writing and better/quick search summarization but aside from that, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that I am aware of.
Someone mentions how AI has made big advances in some industries for certain niche tasks. That's good but again not life changing.
Is AI actually going to change much or is it going to be as it already has. Rather incremental, fairly niche and nothing earth shattering?
If AI is truly going to be groundbreaking stuff that'll change everything what are some sorts of skills/knowledge that will be useful in knowing in the future to make use of the coming "AI age"?
I really feel like AI is just a giant scam to make techbros tons of money and give them more influnece in politics, tbh. I feel lke it's really being overstated.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Taxi drivers were supposed to be replaced 5 years ago. Techbros conveniently ignore such failures. It’s always different this time.
Another thing to consider is cost. The amount of money that has been wasted in developing/training and running/inferencing LLMs is fucking insane and the big players need to generate $600B-$1T to break even. People just aren’t willing to pay top dollar for a novelty. The longer the bubble takes to crash, the more it will impact the real economy.
Sort of. It's a tech bubble, like the "dotcom bubble". Most of what they hype is fake but LLM does have legitimate use cases. We'll see the bubble pop eventually but a few companies will remain, and they will be the leaders of "web 4.0 powered by AI" or whatever. I have a feeling we'll find out they are largely faking the limitations and you don't actually need that much funding and CPU power to build effective models.
Well yeah, they still need to have a slave class