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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)

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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (16 children)

I will try to have a balanced take here:

The positives:

there are some uses for this "AI"
like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

The negatives

the positives don't justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
the positives don't justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can't block because it's in the text output of it.

Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already

[–] arendjr@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So I’m the literal author of the Philosophy of Balance, and I don’t see any reason why LLMs are deserving of a balanced take.

This is how the Philosophy of Balance works: We should strive…

for balance within ourselves
for balance with those around us
and ultimately, for balance with Life and the Universe at large

But here’s the thing: LLMs and the technocratic elite funding them are a net negative to humanity and the world at large. Therefore, to strive for a balanced approach towards AI puts you on the wrong side of the battle for humanity, and therefore human history.

Pick a side.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are presupposing that your opinion about LLMs is absolutely correct and then of course you arrive at your predetermined conclusion.

What about the free LLmodels available out of china and other places that democratizes the LLMs?

Therefore, to strive for a balanced approach towards AI puts you on the wrong side of the battle for humanity, and therefore human history.

Thanks for not being dramatic, lol.

[–] arendjr@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Your comment is fair. I try to follow my own philosophy, so I picked a side and stand for it. I feel strongly about it, so that’s why I may use hyperbole at times.

Yet I understand it’s not everybody’s opinion, so I try to respect those people even when I don’t necessarily respect their positions. It’s a tough line to draw sometimes.

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