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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs and generative AI don’t make money.

I would agree with you. At this juncture AI a loss leader, much like putting a man on the moon was a loss leader. How's that technology benefiting you now? Significantly. I'm in no way glossing over the issues with AI. It has real world problems, and needs intervention, serious intervention.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

AI was already doing good before ChatGPT and LLMs like folding proteins which shaped human history. I am really drilling down on LLMs and the sell to CEOs that generative AI can replace employees or that it is worth transforming the economy over. It's not. Computers had a dotcom bubble which made computers useful by creating the infrastructure for engineers to be produced by universities and companies to use the networking tech. Its not like video games were keeping computers alive. See: Nvidia before bitcoin and ai made them the most valuable company ever

LLMs wont be making anyones lives better any time soon. AI already did things for humanity before them. Computer neural networks existed before AI. It was called machine learning. Member the ML days before tech bros called it AI? I do.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

AI was already doing good before ChatGPT and LLMs like folding proteins which shaped human history.

Absolutely. AI is not really a new phenom. ChatGPT and LLMS are.

Member the ML days before tech bros called it AI?

I certainly do too.