Generative Artificial Intelligence
Welcome to the Generative AI community on Lemmy! This is a place where you can share and discuss anything related to generative AI, which is a kind of technology that can make new things, like pictures, words, or sounds, by learning from existing things. You can post your own creations, ask for feedback, share resources, or just chat with other fans. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, you are welcome here. Please follow the Lemmy etiquette and be respectful to each other. Have fun and enjoy the magic of generative AI!
P.s. Every aspect of this community was created with AI tools, isn't that nifty.
datacenters failing would likely give positive surge to component economy, as all the wasted capacity would be freed. Also companies would have to hurry to regain workers they replaced with ai when ai bubble bursts.
I can see nothing but positive effects from it, though they will likely be turned into bad ones by the rich. Or maybe one of the companies survives it and gains complete dominance they exploit slowly.
Also companies would have to hurry to regain workers they replaced with ai when ai bubble bursts.
Pretty sure this won't happen, a lot of the tech companies are reliant on investors to keep running. Before AI, the investors were cutting off money, and it was causing mass layoffs across the tech sector.
AI hype for investors throwing money at companies again, which has largely stopped the layoffs. It's also why every company was throwing themselves into AI even if their company model didn't really benefit. Saying they were AI focused got the investor money flowing again.
So if AI bubble pops, not only will a lot of AI companies layoff people, but the venture investors will probably tighten up on their investments, causing all the not yet profitable tech companies to shut down or rapidly enshitify to try to turn a profit. Meanwhile we'll see far more layoffs across the tech industry.
And with how interconnected economies are, it will probably trigger a pretty large economy wide recession.
Overall I expect it to be a bad experience for everyone.
ffs, i guess its time to leave it field for good.
Strongly disagree it will make anyone more productive. Glorified autopredict will go the way of NFTs and 3D tvs, another bullshit pyramid tech scheme.
More productive is debatable, but even if it never improves I doubt it's going anywhere. This is anecdotal, but every housewife I know uses it religiously for recipes/meal planning/house project planning/etc.
Also a big part of it being unsustainable right now is training costs, if companies stop trying to make better models it's very feasible to continue offering the current models in financially sustainable way. But that only works until a rival company comes out with a bigger better model, so everyone is having to dump loads of cash into training constantly.
The productivity increases are real for office work. Absolutely not for 'generative' tasks - using them to do anything that takes a modicum of thought is a recipe for frustration and burned time - but they make pretty good search engines for unstructured information.
Now, you don't need a whole-ass model for that, a vector database would do just fine, but since everyone rushed to hook the models in to all their repos and internal wikis it is a convenient omni-search tool.
Now was that worth all the bullshit over the last 4 years as the bubble inflated? Not at all. But it is a real use case and has real value.
I even have leaders now pushing everyone to keep their docs up to date and to make sure tables have metadata fields and such so that agents can make best use of the information. This is particularly hilarious to me because they didn't care to make this investment when people would benefit, but doing it now makes my life easier anyway.