I can't turn on the radio TV without them talking about AI every 5 minutes. It's bitcoin bullshit allover again. Or Big Data, or 'new media' or etc etc.
Exactly. It works well to replace an intern but if you want anything that is fact checked, can draw hands correctly, etc. without plagiarizing you are out of luck.
Great comparison. Like Blockchain, LLMs are an amazing technology with several potential applications. Like Blockchain, and every other technology, there is a lot more that they can't do than what they can. Like Blockchain, they're being hyped as the This Changes Everything that will finally bring us into "the future" (whatever that is). And finally, like with Blockchain, the people doing the most hyping are the ones that understand the least about the technology.
This is pretty categorically false. The main difference between the 2 is how many people need to be on-board for the train to leave the station. With things like Blockchain, and Crypto, it requires a majority of individuals to buy in to the system. If no one is using your currency, it's literally worthless. With something like AI, it doesn't require additional people to buy in for the product to be used. A good example is the help line that fired all their staff and started using an AI instead. This failed pretty spectacularly, but only because the implementation was rushed. There are LOTS of other companies that aren't rushing their implementation.
You do realize that there is zero contradiction between your comment and mine, yes? You said mine was "categorically" false (it isn't) and then stated ways in which the two are different which have nothing to do with the ways in which they're similar that I had mentioned. They're similar but not identical. Also, Blockchain is useful for more than cryptocurrencies.
While I agree in general, Generative AIs have already changed much more about my everyday experience than Blockchain has in all these years.
The difference is that Generative AIs can be applied much more broadly for end users. You can run a small LLM, image generator, voice synthesizer etc at home. I don’t think any run-of-the-mill person actively uses Blockchain or Big Data for anything, really
The media vastly overhype LLMs etc, just like the do any new technology. Venture capitalists jump on the hype train, blowing it out of proportion. However, below all of that is what I consider genuinely transformative technology, with a long-term impact orders of magnitude above Blockchain.
My bank uses Blockchain to validate transactions. Yours probably does too. It also has applications in supply chain management, public and private record keeping of various kinds (such as patient records, real estate ownership records and basically any historical record where each entry is immutable and continues to matter even after several newer entries have been made), digital voting systems , energy trading/grid management and other DeFi applications other than cryptocurrencies, and more. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty confident that its impact on the world economy has been and will continue to be much larger than generative AI's, at least of current-gen generative AI.
The real difference is in visibility. Blockchain is a background technology, running things silently, while LLMs are directly interacted with by the general public.
Without a doubt blockchain has has an impact on the global economy, with an outsized improvement for narco cartels, North Korea, and other super above board transactions.
several examples of non-cryptocurrency Blockchain applications
lol North Korea and drug cartels
I'm sorry, I wrote my reply under the assumption that you were having this conversation in good faith. Now that I see that it isn't the case, I'll excuse myself. Have a great week.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that those technologies weren’t important. Blockchain, the whole crypto-sphere, impacts many many lives.
Similarly, Big Data, and its corollaries of maximized data collection and automated surveillance and profiling, impact pretty much everyone today.
I should have been more clear about the two things I think are different this time:
Generative AI is personal. I, normal internet user, can install them and use them myself. They expand my personal options. LLMs are great at transforming text, for example to explain it, break it down, or change speech registers. If you already know something, they can speed up your work massively in some parts. Image generators are more narrow in their application, but no less powerful.
The impact of Generative AI is felt immediately. How many years did it take for Blockchain to take off? It’s been less than a year since OpenAI released usable models to the public. Image generators only got good this year. Neither has as much impact on the world at large as some of the other buzz-word tech, but the impact is growing massively. ChatGPT is not only another tech fad, it had the quickest growing userbase in all of history, afaik.
The media are overhyping what generative AI can do. It is, for large part of the tech bro sphere, a buzz word without a lot of meaning. However, as a privacy enthusiast who followed the big surveillance leaks enabled by big data, and as a tech-interested person followed the news for a decade or so now, I have never seen something like this before. Once you look past the buzz around the word, I still consider it the tech advancement with the (probably) biggest direct impact I have witnessed yet.
”There was once a chatbot named DPD / Who was useless at providing help,” the bot wrote. “It could not track parcels / Or give information on delivery dates / And it could not even tell you when your driver would arrive.”
”DPD was a waste of time / And a customer’s worst nightmare,” it continued. “One day, DPD was finally shut down / And everyone rejoiced / Finally, they could get the help they needed / From a real person who knew what they were doing.”
They made a chatbot suicidal. I’m starting to think this may have been unleashed on the public a little too early.
I really don't know where to go any longer for some things like this. I know, interwebs has it but I usually have questions that scamazon won't answer.
Mouser really is to me a neat lil store. You get in, ask the guy in the counter for the exact stuff you want, they type one or two things in a computer, check if that’s actually what you want and in less than 5 minutes they fetch it
Technically, yes, websites have physical locations in that they are hosted such that, no matter how many levels of containerization and virtualization there are, they eventually run and exist in some way on physical hardware.
If it’s important… Double check the output with a meter just to be sure. Only got burned by it once, but for expensive/complex circuits, just give the critical components a sanity check.
Well, this might be personal experience, but imo, radiohosts and bands on the radio used to affect me a whole lot more before. Now it’s more youtubers and hot music videos on YouTube.
Even just with MTV being popular there was way more incentive to have not just a song, but a music video of it, so you could possibly get it on TV as well.
So I get how “video killed the radio star” would be a thing. But now that podcasts are quite in (for like the last decade or something idk), you could have those legendary radio hosts again.
Nah, everyone is doing podcasts. There’s just no good way to find the good ones. There are a few podcast cooperative like Relay and Max Fun that have several good ones.
I would say it’s actually pretty easy to find a handful of good ones. Go to the top downloaded podcasts and you’ll get Stuff You Should Know, Behind The Bastards, a couple of Max Fun podcasts etc. its when you want a podcast on your specific hobby or niche interest where it falls off a cliff.
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