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What is this post even trying to say? Generative AI is clearly not comparable to those things. It's already replacing or changing people's jobs in some form. And right now it's in it's infancy.

Being a naysayer of it is like saying the internet won't amount to anything.

 

All tech ceos do is fix problems that don't exist while creating a bigger environmental impact than flying a private jet to frack

 

wow, sounds like the real deal. where can I invest???

finally a tech fad that isn't a scam! see you suckers later, I'm about to make it big

 

Some might say the internet didn't amount to anything.

 

It amounted to three websites none of us can stop using

 

I’m of course speaking of the big three: Facebook, twitter, and chorus dot fm

 

I still think people online dunk on AI in a strange way because of what it’s being touted as now vs where I think it’ll end up being most impactful. If you think of the LLM tech as something that can be used to improve known parts of tech, it’s a lot easier to see the benefit. Autocorrect just being infinitely better, real time translation and subtitles being possible with good quality, photo item identification, transcription, there’s a bunch of applications that aren’t the weird shit Google and OpenAI are throwing in everyone’s faces.

 

One idea! Maybe don't train your model on *all of* Reddit. And then we can get two birds cause Reddit’s valuation and part of their monetization strategy will be rapidly ruined as well.

 

My dad is taking an AI class through MIT right now and has been explaining LLM’s to me and stuff and yeah we kind of both came to the same conclusion that this stuff is here and looking for ways to thoughtfully use it is the way to go rather than outright shunning it. generative AI is still way too new to start replacing key jobs (I saw a post about a dentist trying to use it to diagnose cavities and getting it completely wrong) but yeah there’s way more to it than the stuff you see being blasted online

 

What needs to happen, but won’t because we always play catch up, is start putting up regulations on when and how AI can be used in certain industries or use cases (for me, primarily in arts and creative industries) so it leads to efficiencies and lightened work loads instead of layoffs. I can’t wait until AI can automate the boring stuff at work or make manual repetitive tasks easier/faster.

editing some travel photos now using the new Adobe Lightroom AI removal tool and being able to remove people from my landscape photos in seconds is incredible.

 

People balk at AI in video games when it comes to dialogue and art assets but gaming has had “AI” in it forever with NPC scripting and enemy reactivity and used correctly we could start to see some extremely adaptive NPC’s in video games unlike anything we’ve seen before. Like think about MGSV enemies reacting to the way you did previous missions by having defenses specific to your most used tools and you start to see where things could go

 

As with most things, the least flashy/visible parts of LLM and Generative AI will be the most beneficial. Things like medical research where they can throw millions of pieces of data at it and see that seemingly unrelated patients who responded well to a specific drug across several decades actually have these seventeen different traits in common, so people who also have these traits would benefit as well etc.

It should be used to reduce tedious but important work, instead it's being pushed by tedious people to do unimportant tricks that do nothing but increase short term shareholder value.

 

yeah like anything else it’s being pushed by people in pursuit of endless growth and profits not anything actually helpful

 

I mostly want protections for the people whose works are being scraped without compensation/consent for the tech to work

 

I also don't like that AI is just an automatic part of new tech without telling us what it's doing or asking us to opt in

 

I honestly don't know how to reply to this, or any of these posts. I don't know how you use ChatGPT, MidJourney, or one of the many other tools and think this is a "fad". Those (and similar) are the accessible tools with the "wow" factor, but naturally there are more important usages that will have real meaning, across health, education, and pretty much any other industry you can think of.

I'm a software engineer, so I'm used to people saying "it'll replace your job" and full-well knowing that person doesn't have much of a grasp of why that won't be happening any time soon. So I get that angle. Likewise I get that not enough is being done to challenge these companies that are leeching off of creatives work. It's absolutely scary how it's gotten as far as it has without more accountability or justice.

It isn't a fad though. It's a huge leap forward in technology, and was preceded by everything in AI that came before it. People will get used to it, sure, but it will only be more a part of your life in the next decade.

Blockchain and all that bollocks was absolutely a fad, and I've had to cringe throughout the years whenever colleagues would try and shoehorn it into a conversation as a serious proposal of something to leverage in our systems. But this? No. People in "digital" industries will already be using tools that leverage the technology. I know I do.

 

like how it's been being used for years to sort everyone's résumés and blocking anyone who isn't white and named "Brad" from ever even being looked at for management jobs...?

 

I’m beginning to think it’s not AI that is bad but it’s use under capitalism

 

That’s how I feel about self driving cars