It also can't do any job I know of. Weird framing. Though, I guess that's the snake oil they're trying to sell.
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I'm just going to note how giga-fucked it is that AI is openly being criticized because it hasn't led to more layoffs.
Just want to point out the "more layoffs". We are still in the Uber-subsidized part of the relationship.
This is the honeymoon and it ain't off to a great start
Slop software houses are gonna PAY BIG for losing human talent.
Just imagine where we would be 5-10-15 years from now, if all that AI money would have went into social and environmental projects.
That describes my entire life since adolescence... wondering what kind of society we could have had if we werent governed by sociopaths
I'm hoping this insane future booked shortage causes the consumer electronics industry to crash due to lack of parts which in turn should cause the AI industry to crash when no one is buying new tech nor fat AI subscriptions.
It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly when even laptop procurement has tripled in price and you're spending a ton of money for enterprise AI access.
These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a "game streaming" service, for example.
Good luck with that to them. Internet reliability is extremely crappy in the US, even on supposedly "tech hubs" in California the best you can do is unreliable Comcast or super slow DSL from AT&T.
Ahh, late to market in a flooded field with at least one law of physics preventing it from ever working acceptably. Good job, Jeff!
I think they’re hoping the result is that we can only afford cheap tablet devices that act as dumb terminals for their cloud services which we have to rent forever due to holding our data hostage so they can manufacture consent and prevent us from developing open solutions to their walled garden proprietary products.
A precarious moment at the edge of a cliff.
It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly...
I'd imagine that is a major factor in why it's so accepted right now. Gotta consolidate the market!
Wow!
Really?!
No way!!!
Its almost like anyone who could do grade school math could have pointed that out 2, 3, 4 years ago!
I wonder if anyone did...
Anyway, uh, chain all these fucking morons into each other, SAW style, tell em they all have to work together and mutually suffer to escape the trap.
That's not murder, it's comedy.
Not too mention Über and other new services clearly worked on getting people hooked, then jacking up the price.
SAW style
So, their arms are stuck in a device that allows them to reach a keyboard. If they can get the AI to do a task correctly they're free, if not the device cuts of the arms.
So, their arms are stuck in a device that allows them to reach a keyboard. If they can get the AI to do a task correctly they're free, if not the device cuts of the arms.
Hah! That's very good as well, I was thinking something like... they all have a chain going literally through their shoulders, around/between bones, with lock mechanism inside their bodies.
They each have a key, but the way the... dungeon/trap is set up, they can only unlock the chain if they all simultaneously turn the right key, in the right lock, for the right person, all at the same time.
If any one of them dies of blood loss, well, now they'll all die.
If they break their collarbones, to pull the chain/lock out... I mean good luck trying, without severing your suprascapular artery.
So... why the fuck are you going all-in on AI at the expense of literally everyone and everything else!?
Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They're either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they're willing to pay more for a workforce that can't organize and protest and that they don't have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.
Some CEO's thought they could save a bundle and were eager to replace workers. Other CEO's saw that, had to do a bunch of layoffs and knew saying "replaced with AI" instead of layoffs keeps stock prices high. Then you have a whole bunch of CEO's that thought the other guys must be on to something, think they're missing out and jump into AI both feet first. The laggards are bombarded with news and propaganda by the big players to get them pulled in too. So by now you get everybody messing around with AI in some fashion. That's the moment the tech giants put the squeeze on everybody.
They are clearly anti-human. The question is what are they really trying to achieve? I hope it is not just Bioshock.
My theory is that they think that, with world-scale financing, testing, and iterating, they can get this thing to do a lot of work that is currently exclusively in the purview of humans today. I believe that some of the wealthiest among us tolerate the rest of us sharing their air because, for now, they must, and the second they can replace us with obedient machines, they will.
If I am right about that, then this entire hype cycle and seemingly endless funding rounds and unabated lending Ouroboros Ponzi schemes makes more sense. They're not delusional that the product works better than it does, they are desperate for the holy grail of greed: not having to ever share anything with anyone ever again.
profit. the profit must flow.
...but there is no profit...eg testla
Just wait till executives realize they can't use AI as a scapegoat when they force a bad decision through the company. They'll have no one to take the fall.
It's like that twilight zone episode. They fire everyone then no one is left to help do anything
It's why there's often a human in the loop who has to check the result of the AI and can be blamed if things go wrong. The poor sap can't possibly check and correct the volumes of slop produced so they're just there to work as a scapegoat.
This reminds me of Barney Stinson
AI businesses are already getting away with their software killing innocent people. I think everyone will work out for the people at the top.
Yup. Capitalism only works in a finite world if there's a catastrophic economic hardship for 99% of the population every 5 to 10 years just to ensure the working class doesn't achieve too many gains. Ai causing the economy to crash is bonus feature, not a bug.
I’m pretty certain that companies and people have been using the old “computer error” excuse since at least the 1980s.
Are you sure? So far it seems like they've been able to do just that.
Gruen tonight was talking about 'Single Person Billion Dollar Brands', it was sickening.
At its current pace, AI expenditures may reach $5.2 trillion by 2030
I can't wait.
They think it is a lottery and sinking more money into it will increase the odds of "winning at everything".
I love that their moat has been bridged by open models as soon as it was dug. At the current rate, you just have to wait six or nine months and open models will be at opus 4.6 level which is really all you need for most applications. After this I don't see how the big labs could ever recoup their losses.
May this be the beginning of the end, or at least the end of the beginning. Quite possibly with a bubble burst so we can move on from the era of slop (am I being too optimistic?)
I'm not sure slop will go for good, I'm just hoping for a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs and GPUs at "please take us back" prices to build a new machine from scratch
I’ve been shouting this everywhere but I’m pretty sure their plan is to make it so you can never do that, and you have to subscribe to Fire tablet or whatever to participate in society
Obviously, but think of all the middle management, payroll, HR, etc you can fire/not hire!
I'm not sure who to root for here. Middle Managers can suck eggs.
Their not firing middle managers. Their firing front line coders and lower desk employees and keeping the middle managers while using AI.
That's not really what's happening they've been trimming a lot of middle manager fat too
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So unshocking.