• RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    principled technologists would of course say that the guillotine and beheadings are also technological inevitabilities, so why resist?

    I think the difference here is, at least we can use the tech I mentioned defensively. However, using genAI and LLMs is always adding to Jensen Huangs bottom line only, and its a loss to everyone else. You don’t happen to be a direct relative? Because otherwise you must feel really ridiculous to do free marketing for him

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      2 days ago

      Comparing AI to the guillotine is absurd. The guillotine and beheadings would literally only impact 1 single industry, and no other.

      At one point adding electricity meant adding to the bottom line of Thomas Edison and Edison Illuminating Company. Why spend all the money and infrastructure when you are just going to get light when candles work fine? Not to mention how dangerous and ugly electric poles are. Who wants those hovering over their head??

      People literally fought electricity because they were looking too close. If you take a step back, you know when something is a big deal based on what potential impacts it could have on a variety of industries. Same with the internet. People saw the potential, and corporations saw the money. There was a bubble, the bubble popped, and the real potential was left behind. AI bubble will pop at some point, and the genuine application of AI will be left behind and whether we want it to or not, will change the world. The technology exists, and pandoras box has been opened.

      This is not a matter of faster beheadings, this is a matter of a conversational pocket expert with immediate response times at any time of day. The technology will only get better, it will only get more efficient. Nvidia will not hold their power forever. You can separate the technology from the corporations profiting and recognize what will happen.

      • RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 hour ago

        Let’s see how wrong your explanation of LLMs is: wrong: -conversational: it only generates the most statistically likely text string to follow. -povcet expert: LLMs have no expertise, it can only regurgitate text strings that are most likely, based on stealing the creative and scientific output of actual experts: humans What isn’t wrong is “real time responses”, as long as LLM providers decide they provide that, because people using their shitty statistical parrot is costing them their bottom line.

        Anyways, you read like a giant AI-Booster. Did your LLM-Mother write this for you? You can’t do Werkimmanenzanalyse on technology! Death of the author cannot apply to actual, society affecting changes. But it’s ok, I can just block you for your “Mein AI-Kampf” screed here.