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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Apparently, there was only so much IP to steal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I hope it all burns.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Short on the AI stocks before it crash!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

so long, see you all in the next hype. Any guesses?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Nice, looking forward to it! So much money and time wasted on pipe dreams and hype. We need to get back to some actually useful innovation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Fingers crossed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Seems to me the rationale is flawed. Even if it isn't strong or general AI, LLM based AI has found a lot of uses. I also don't recognize the claimed ignorance among people working with it, about the limitations of current AI models.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Sigh I hope LLMs get dropped from the AI bandwagon because I do think they have some really cool use cases and love just running my little local models. Cut government spending like a madman, write the next great American novel, or eliminate actual jobs are not those use cases.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The tech priests of Mars were right; death to abominable intelligence.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Oh nice, another Gary Marcus "AI hitting a wall post."

Like his "Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall" post on March 10th, 2022.

Indeed, not much has changed in the world of deep learning between spring 2022 and now.

No new model releases.

No leaps beyond what was expected.

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Gary Marcus is like a reverse Cassandra.

Consistently wrong, and yet regularly listened to, amplified, and believed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Theres no bracing for this, OpenAI CEO said the same thing like a year ago and people are still shovelling money at this dumpster fire today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

AI was 99% a fad. Besides OpenAI and Nvidia, none of the other corporations bullshitting about AI have made anything remotely useful using it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Absolutely not true. Disclaimer, I do work for NVIDIA as a forward deployed AI Engineer/Solutions Architect—meaning I don’t build AI software internally for NVIDIA but I embed with their customers’ engineering teams to help them build their AI software and deploy and run their models on NVIDIA hardware and software. edit: any opinions stated are solely my own, N has a PR office to state any official company opinions.

To state this as simply as possible: I wouldn’t have a job if our customers weren’t seeing tremendous benefit from AI technology. The companies I work with typically are very sensitive to CapX and OpX costs of AI—they self-serve in private clouds. If it doesn’t help them make money (revenue growth) or save money (efficiency), then it’s gone—and so am I. I’ve seen it happen; entire engineering teams laid off because a technology just couldn’t be implemented in a cost-effective way.

LLMs are a small subset of AI and Accelerated-Compute workflows in general.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I would say LLMs specifically are in that ball park. Things like machine vision have been boringly productive and relatively un hyped.

There's certainly some utility to LLMs, but it's hard to see through all the crazy over estimations and being shoved everywhere by grifters.

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