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MindzEye said:
I love the people who try to say that they bought the cyber truck before Elon lost his mind. Deliveries didn't start until nov 2023.
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If you drive a Tesla car, you have plausible deniability.

But yeah, every single Cybertruck owner bought it knowing what Elon was.
 
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And workplace adoption of AI is already stagnant or decreasing as companies realize it's not just unproductive but often counterproductive.
 
zeke said:
And workplace adoption of AI is already stagnant or decreasing as companies realize it's not just unproductive but often counterproductive.
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Yeah. It’s great at some stuff but often it’s a complete waste of time. I recently asked it to efficiently position different furniture pieces in a living space, and it was so bad, repeatedly, that I thought it was trolling me
 
MindzEye said:
www.businessinsider.com

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
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It’s a winner take all scenario. A lot of money was lit on fire during the dot com mania. 99% of the companies went bust but the 1% that survived are basically monopolies now.

I think some big names we take for granted now will get killed
 
AI always blows the mind of people with demonstrations when it's in an industry that they themselves don't work in. As soon as you're an expert in something and actually try it's basically like googling something, but faster.

With caveats of course for certain industries which are just fucked, like law clerks, certain types of graphic designers and copy writers.

Still very hopeful for that it can do in the research world.
 
CH1 said:
It’s a winner take all scenario. A lot of money was lit on fire during the dot com mania. 99% of the companies went bust but the 1% that survived are basically monopolies now.

I think some big names we take for granted now will get killed
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The thing with Dotcom was that there was a there there. The dotcom companies were there about a decade too early for the revenues to make sense of the valuations, but there was a functioning usecase for the technology that could change the world.

These modern goofballs though are trying to act like they're about to unleash AGI on the world and not only are they not close, they're not even in the right development stream to get there.

The companies with real core businesses, as long as they don't do anything truly stupid, will survive. The rest is ashes though. There's no multi trillion dollar business case for LLM's.
 
Aberdeen said:
AI always blows the mind of people with demonstrations when it's in an industry that they themselves don't work in. As soon as you're an expert in something and actually try it's basically like googling something, but faster.

With caveats of course for certain industries which are just fucked, like law clerks, certain types of graphic designers and copy writers.

Still very hopeful for that it can do in the research world.
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I honestly think what it's doing to even those industries is largely a blip. ChatGPT writes great copy if you're a small business who doesn't give a fuck if you sound completely generic and probably wouldn't ever dream of hiring a professional copywriter for their website blurb. But companies that care about their brand image? They'll flirt with AI for a while and then start hiring talented people again. Because AI ends up taking longer, being worse and costing more in most creative cases. The recent Coke commercial is an excellent example. Basically had to hire a team of monkeys for months to prompt the shit out of Sora 100,000 times and then stitch clips together that weren't coherent and looked like shit. The total cost was equivalent to what a professional vfx firm would have quoted to do it properly in half of the time.

For professional "non creative" work, until the hallucination problem is solved (probably can't be, it's baked into the dna of the technology) it simply can't be used in any setting where there isn't a very skilled human fact checking everything it produces. Imagine a law firm using an AI instead of a Clerk to provide case law research to a trial lawyer and the case law it cites being made up?

That would be so embarassing if it ever happened...

 
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