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[-] menemen@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

It will probably burst, but that does not man that AI will go away completly.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago

Same thing happened to the Dot Com bubble. The fundamental technology has valid uses, but we're in the stage where some people are convinced it can be used for literally anything.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 61 points 4 days ago

Always invest in the spades never the gold mine

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I went to a AI conference and you can just sense how bogus it all feels. Like "Our patent pending AI system references billions of crowd-sourced data points to identify what you are craving for breakfast! Never think about breakfast again!"

And as a engineer speaking with other engineers, we all collectively shrug and just keep taking the money. I'll AI your toaster for enough money IDGAF.

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago

That's why Nvidia is making bank right now

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

And AMD won the console wars

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[-] poo@lemmy.world 233 points 4 days ago

No bubble has deserved to pop as much as AI deserves to

[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 178 points 4 days ago

Blockchain and crypto were worse. „AI” has some actual use even if it’s way overblown.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 103 points 4 days ago

Creating a specialized neural net to perform a specific function is cool. Slapping GPT into customer support because you like money is horse shit and I hope your company collapses. But yeah you're right. Blockchain was a solution with basically no problems to fix. Neural nets are a tool that can do a ton of things, but everyone is content to use them as a hammer.

[-] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 37 points 4 days ago

Yes! "AI" defined as only LLMs and the party trick applications is a bubble. AI in general has been around for decades and will only continue to grow.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 61 points 4 days ago

Crypto has a legitimate value, you can buy drugs with it.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago

I'm glad you didn't say NFTs because my Bored Ape will regain and triple its value any day now!

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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 51 points 4 days ago

No shit.

Like all new technologies, there is a time when bunches of companies jump on the band wagon to get in on the action. You can see it all throughout the history of the industrial revolution.

They mostly know that there will come a great weeding out of those that can't handle the technology or just fail from poor management. But they are betting they will be among the 1% that wins the race and remain to dominate the market.

The rest will just bide their time until the next Big Thing comes along. And the process starts over again.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

If you're invested in these stocks, make sure you have your stop loss orders in place, 100%.

I imagine the bubble bursting will be quick and deadly.

[-] turddle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Set stop loss at 100%, got it 👍

[-] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Just to b sure, I'm going to set mine at 200%, to be double sure.

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[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Eh... "Robin Li says increased accuracy is one of the largest improvements we've seen in Artificial Intelligence. "I think over the past 18 months, that problem has pretty much been solved—meaning when you talk to a chatbot, a frontier model-based chatbot, you can basically trust the answer," the CEO added."

That's plain wrong. Even STOA black box chatbots give wrong answer to the simplest of questions sometimes. That's precisely what NOT being able to trust mean.

How can one believe anything this person is saying?

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[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am old enough to remember when the CEO of Nortel Networks got crucified by Wall Street for saying in a press conference that the telecom/internet/carrier boom was a bubble, and the fundamentals weren't there (who is going to pay for long distance anymore when calls are free over the internet? where are the carriers-- Nortel's customers-- going to get their income from?). And 4 years later Nortel ceased to exist. Cisco crashed too, though had enough TCP/IP router biz and enterprise sales to keep them alive even until today.

This all reminds me of the late 1990s internet bubble rather than the more recent crypto bubble. We'll all still be using ML models for all kinds of things more or less forever from now on, but it won't be this idiotic hype cycle and overvaluation anymore after the crash.

Shit, crypto isn't going anywhere either, it's a permanent fixture now, Wall Street bought into it and you can buy crypto ETFs from your stockbroker. We just don't have to listen to hype about it anymore.

Crypto is still just as awful as it ever was IMO. Still plenty of assholes ~~gambling~~ investing in crypto.

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[-] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 18 points 4 days ago

Well put.

Soon, it won't be this idiotic hype cycle, but it'll be some other idiotic hype cycle. Short term investors love hype cycles.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 46 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but thanks to the glory of corporateworld, all the people involved in making these decisions will be in a higher position at a different company by the time the consequences come knocking.

You definitely will not regret spending billions of dollars on GPUs and electricity bills.

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[-] GeneralInterest@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

Maybe it's like the dotcom bubble: there is genuinely useful tech that has recently emerged, but too many companies are trying to jump on the bandwagon.

LLMs do seem genuinely useful to me, but of course they have limitations.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

We need to stop viewing it as artificial intelligence. The parts that are worth money are just more advanced versions of machine learning.

Being able to assimilate a few dozen textbooks and pass a bar exam is a neat parlor trick, but it is still just a parlor trick.

Unfortunately probably the biggest thing to come out of it will be the marketing aspect. If they spend enough money to train small models on our wants and likes it will give them tremendous amounts of return.

The key to using it in a financially successful manner is finding problems that fit the bill. Training costs are fairly high, quality content generation is also rather expensive. There are sticky problems around training it from non-free data. Whatever you're going to use it for either needs to have a significant enough advantage to make the cost of training /data worth it.

I still think we're eventually going to see education rise. The existing tools for small content generation adobe's use of it to fill in small areas is leaps and bounds better than the old content aware patches. We've been using it for ages for speech recognition and speech generation. From there it's relatively good at helper roles. Minor application development, copy editing, maybe some VFX generation eventually. Things where you still need a talented individual to oversee it but it can help lessen the workload.

There are lots of places where it's being used where I think it's a particularly poor fit. AI help desk chatbots, IVR scenarios, It says brain dead as the original phone trees and flow charts that we've been following for decades.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

The AI bubble might be the 2020s' dotcom bubble.

[-] D4MR0D@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Crossing fingers it bursts soon

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same here. And speaking of bubbles I haven't seen anything about NFTs in quite a while. I don't think that bubble burst tho, it just sort of shriveled up and blew away.

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Please please please please please please please please

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

As a major locally-hosted AI proponent, aka a kind of AI fan, absolutely. I'd wager it's even worse than crypto, and I hate crypto.

What I'm kinda hoping happens is that bitnet takes off in the next few months/years, and that running a very smart model on a phone or desktop takes milliwatts... Who's gonna buy into Sam Altman $7 trillion cloud scheme to burn the Earth when anyone can run models offline on their phones, instead of hitting APIs running on multi-kilowatt servers?

And ironically it may be a Chinese company like Alibaba that pops the bubble, lol.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

If bitnet takes off, that’s very good news for everyone.

The problem isn’t AI, it’s AI that’s so intensive to host that only corporations with big datacenters can do it.

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[-] weew@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, but the 0.1% remaining will take over the world.

Does anyone remember the era when there were a million search engines? Google didn't spawn alone.

Same with Amazon. You think nobody else tried to make an online store in the 90s? Lol.

People are trying to vindicate their dislike of AI, pointing to trends like this as if it were supporting evidence. But saying "AI is going to be a big flop because 99% of companies today will end up failing" is as stupid as saying "online shopping will never work because 99% of online stores will close by the year 2010"

[-] dan@upvote.au 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Same with Amazon. You think nobody else tried to make an online store in the 90s? Lol.

Fun fact: the first online store still exists. It's Pizza Hut. They launched an experiment for online ordering in 1994. The first company to ever sell a product on the web.

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[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

Yeah, AI is really just a surveillance tool than anything else.

When AI "creates" something, it's just pulling up things related to words you typed in and making an amalgamation of what you typed in out of what it has.

The real purpose is for corporations and governments to look through people's devices and online storage at super speed.

this is why you all need to be using end-to-end encrypted storage for everything and VPNs with perfect forward secrecy

do your own research into the history of each provider of those things before you buy it

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[-] don@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

They couldn’t keep their heads on fucking straight during the .com bubble, and here they are doing it all over again.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago
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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

AI companies specializing in spreading bullshit all across the internet have a bright future however

[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

People look at the advertising for this shit (and future tech-bro shit) and wonder, "who is this for"? Remember E.L.O.N. Exaggerated Lies Overlooked Narratives

Think of every manager and boss you've ever had. They don't think, they just do. Salesmen convince them using issues that don't exist, to sell solutions that don't really work, to people that don't understand how to use them. Repeat over 70 years and you have the modern American education system.

Now things are different. Money is scarce, things are getting tight. Tech-Bros have changed from a mildly infuriating strategy, to a downright abusive one. These simple minded managers think everything is under attack, and the only solution is what they already have, but heavily monetized and completely unusable.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

10 to 30? Yeah I think it might be a lot longer than that.

Somehow everyone keeps glossing over the fact that you have to have enormous amounts of highly curated data to feed the trainer in order to develop a model.

Curating data for general purposes is incredibly difficult. The big medical research universities have been working on it for at least a decade, and the tools they have developed, while cool, are only useful as tools too a doctor that has learned how to use them. They can speed diagnostics up, they can improve patient outcome. But they cannot replace anything in the medical setting.

The AI we have is like fancy signal processing at best

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[-] TehWorld@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

So, I have clients that are actively using AI on a daily basis and LOVE it. It is however a very narrow subset. Also, I’m pretty sure that a LARGE amount of Dollars are currently being spent on AI generated political articles.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

The web didn't die after the dot com bubble burst. The AI bubble will burst, but a smaller niche of companies will continue to exist.

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 27 points 4 days ago

Not shocked. It seems the tech bros like to troll us every few years.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 35 points 4 days ago

The tech bros are selling, but it's the VCs that are fueling this whole thing. They're grasping for the next big thing. Mostly they don't care if any of it actually works, as long as they can pump share value and then sell before it collapses.

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