Why AI is in Everything Now
Why AI is in Everything Now
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The company I contract with has been pushing hard on getting people to use LLMs (Copilot specifically) in their day-to-day; so much so that they put out a survey to everyone who hasn't used it yet, asking why they haven't used it. One of the questions was selecting checkboxes of reasons you haven't used it; for the "Other", free-form answer field I put:
I'm not about to sacrifice the integrity of my work just so that some venture capitalists can feel justified in roleplaying as useful members of society.
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What was the point of that image? The link & text alone would have been fine.
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ChatGPT summarize this post:
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It's very easy to add an imaginary ingredient to any product.
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I ain't reading allat! Jarvis, summarise this shit.
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Dot Com Bubble: The Sequel
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Best read of the day. Thank you!
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If this resonates with anyone, I strongly encourage reading Ed Zitron’s writing. He takes a big shit on Big AI and brings receipts on why it’s not even compatible with capitalism, which is the only thing propping it up.
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The only thing that it is really useful for is getting possible solutions for simple problems that don't pop up in search results anymore because of all of the slop that it was used to generate for scummy advertising dickheads. Even then, it's not trustworthy and requires verification, wasting time that would not be needed if the official docs came up consistently on the first page of search results.
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The whole venture capitalist system is kind of bullshit. There's so much vibes-based investing. The end game is often "and then we'll be a monopoly and price gouge people". It sucks. It all sucks.
Labor should unionize. Kill the bosses if need be. And then maybe we can focus on building things that are useful and well liked, instead of another ad targeting platform.
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You didn’t need the word “venture”, you’re mostly just describing all capitalism
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True. It feels worse lately, but maybe that's just mythology. In my imagination, in the not so distant past, if you wanted to get funding for a business you'd have to show the investors it was a good idea, with like spreadsheets and stuff. Now it seems more like a bunch of bros just decide based on feelings. Zoom, I read, got funded even though the investors thought it was a solved problem and foolish to go against the big players, but they were friends with the CEO and decided to let him have his fun for like several hundred million dollars.
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My perspective is that research machine learning has been chugging along reasonably for years, without any fuss, until Altman went against OpenAI’s mandate and commercialized (and marketed) ChatGPT.
Now it’s enshittified. And ruining shit. Thanks for that.
One example I often cite is the utter shock in finance land at Deepseek R1 coming out when the research/tinkerer community saw that coming miles away.
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They’re so lost in the Altman sauce they actually want to make DeepSeek illegal because it will bankrupt so many American investors if someone makes a useful, free alternative that runs locally for pennies compared to the power-sucking cloud based slop that’s already using more power than all cryptocurrencies combined
Motherfucking Microsoft was talking about re-opening three mile island to power copilot for Christ’s sake. Couldn’t get America to consider nuclear for 50 years and now suddenly we MUST have it
The rich are all gambling addicts and we’re at their mercy
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This isn't gonna be the last ship the rats try to escape to. There will be another fancy thing they want down the line. Maybe it'll be Boston dynamics style dog bots with AI. Maybe it'll be some quantum computer scam.
It's a constant cycle of bullshit motivated by profit, a cycle that doesn't need to exist.
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If you look at nvidia's presentation, the next "big thing" is robotics and related software. Well, it's kind of obvious, you can only do so much with just software (AI) even if it works as best as it can, it is bound to the digital world.
If getting LLM's (alignment, accuracy etc.) right was challenging, then the same on top of dynamic 3D environments will result in an even bigger shit show.
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They're gonna create the robots from iRobot, (the film, not the book, or the Roomba company,) just unintentionally, and without Viki controlling them.
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a cycle that doesn’t need to exist
Have you got any idea how many psychopaths it keeps busy away from reality?
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need 's got nothin' to do with it
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There is one need that has to do with it, the need to keep the line going up. Cause once it falls then heads will roll
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That pretty much sums it up, well said.
I take issue, though, with the repeated misspelling of "vulture capitalist."
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Vultures have been shown to be vital in reducing the spread of disease by scavenging, don't drag them through the mud by comparing them to freeloading criminals wearing suits that cost more than your car.
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