im new to lemmy and i wanna know your perspective about ai
One word sums up all that is wrong right now and it is greed.
AI has become synonymous with the worst of human nature hence it has become a loaded term.
Another way to look at this is it is not AI that is the problem we are or more specifically the people that will use AI to control us.
This technology is like the atomic bomb. We are fast racing towards a future were a few people will be able to dictate what everyone will be able to do. The person that controls AI and the computing power associated with it will control the world.This is intoxicating and it has drawn out the worst human beings who want to misuse this technology.
And it has already happened to some degree. Massive data centers, surveillance technology, and AI are being used to profile people and target them for death. In the future AI teachers will become the dominate form of teaching. AI will make our decision and we will be subject to a system without recourse or redressability.
Soon we will have a generation of people who only know what AI has told them. This is the kind of scenario that we have been warned against and the reason that those who dislike like propaganda and misinformation are so upset with where things are heading.
“Hes one of the good ones”
AI as a concept is great. It should 100% be used for scientific and medical research.
But modern AI is a tool of fascists that is destroying our environment and causing more harm than good to our society. Anyone who uses it unironically should be ashamed of themselves. It is absolutely killing people’s ability to think.
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For those confused by the pic, it’s the Iron Giant. Fantastic movie from the 90s, and incredibly sad and nostalgia inducing. Definitely worth a watch.
But yes that’s a clanker
A fascinating tool with a lot of potential, but sadly is being used right now to feed a greed machine.
If you examine closely, you’ll see there is no AI, but Vin Diesel reading a script (written by humans).
AI is riding the surface of a monster bubble and anyone gleefully waiting for the pop has no idea what that’s going to do the US economy, and then everyone elses.
All but 1% of US economic growth last year was AI development and speculation. Combine that with the US passing, for the first time, 200%+ on the Buffett Index and we are screwed.
For reference, the Buffett Index is total stock market valuation vs. GDP. There is better than twice the dollars in the stock market than we produce in a year. The index was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.
I think that AI is fine for personal use but I also think that companies shouldn’t be able to use it for profit. If the AI can do something I can’t and I’m not using it for profit, I have no problem using it. I occasionally use AI to generate images for personal use and I also on rare occasions use AI Dungeon if I’m having trouble sleeping.
A bit of a gray area that I’ve been letting slide is when someone, who is working by themselves, wants to make a game but they lack the artistic talent and budget to hire a good artist to make art for their game. I understand that the use of AI is technically bad in this case but I understand why they would use it and, especially if the game is free, I’m willing to give the game a try, but I will dock points and bring it up when/if I review it.
Depends on the use case.
- AI that parses manuals, documentation and dumbs it down for me? Yes please.
- AI that generates images? Eh, kinda undecided. I have seen really impressive AI videos, which I couldn’t tell from real videography.
- AI as a personal assistant? No, too much energy wasted on minor issues that could have been solved more efficiently. E.g: I have X at home, what could I make for dinner?
- AI (not LLMs) in medical/scientific fields. Very intruiging. Yes. good shit.
- AI in childrens toys. Eww. Burn it! Fecken burn it!!!
I think it can be a great tool, but it is overvalued atm, and there are AI images anywhere which is really frustrating. When I go to pinterest, I want to see human input. When I check my LinkedIn everyone and their cat is using AI graphics - I get it, it’s quick and easy, but such a waste of energy.
If we want to keep using AI, we need to reduce the quantity in which we use it and it’s resource consumption.
Wow, you don’t know who that is but you’d ask if we’d call him a clanker?
I’m a fan of the technology, I’ve been using it for various projects and I see a lot of potential. But there’s widespread anti-AI sentiment on the Fediverse. I notice you’re getting a lot of downvotes for merely asking about it.
Average user here thinks AI is synonymous with LLMs and that it’s not only not intelligent but also bad for the environment, immoral to use because it’s trained on copyrighted content, a total job-killer that’s going to leave everyone unemployed, soulless slop that can’t create real art or writing, and basically just a lazy cheat for people who lack actual talent or skills.
And they’re right about all of that except the AI equals LLMs thing, but that’s forgivable because the LLM hustlers have managed to make the terms synonymous in most people’s minds through a massive marketing effort.
I would say they are right in that what companies are currently selling as AI is mostly just LLM or machine learning. We don’t have true intelligence. The separation is between what AI did mean in the past before the hype train tried to sell the current snake oil.
I love AI. Who made it by the way?
At the moment, AI is just a glorified autocomplete and I think it does more harm than good. (For LLMs). Is it a useful tool? Definitely. Should it replace jobs? Hell no. Is it being used as an excuse for the current recession and layoffs caused by offshoring? Hell yes. Is it killing the internet and propagating fake news? Definitely
If we’re talking about other applications (computer vision, image processing etc), then yes. I think think the surveillance states (face verification) and Ukraine-Russia war heavily uses these applications
glorified autocomplete
People repeat that like it has some value, but it’s really just words. If autocomplete is glorified to the point of outputting something amazing, what is the value of saying it. I’m not saying it is, but if autocomplete spits out Shakespeare, “glorified autocomplete” is amazing.
I mean, in a sense, brains are just glorified autocomplete. So…?
It’s an apt description of how these models function. They predict the most likely response to the input based on their training data. A brain can grasp concepts and reason about them - an LLM cannot
It is a decent description for sure. But one without practical value. And yes brains can grasp concepts and reason, but by using a similar mechanism. One uses chemistry for electronic potential difference for neuron weights, but they are nevertheless more similar than one might think. Brains don’t have some supernatural special sauce; they are weighted neural networks.
But again, I’m not saying the description is wrong. It just has no value. Glorified autocomplete can mean pretty amazing outputs. “Just glorified autocomplete” is diminutive without purpose.
I wouldn’t call anything a clanker because I’m not a Boomer
I’m biased because of the work my kid does in the field. It’s paying his mortgage so… 😉
PERSONALLY, not a fan, I think it’s a dangerous abrogation of personal responsibility… BUT…
I do think I found a legitimate creative use for it.
There’s an AI powered app for a specific brand of guitar amplifier. If you want your guitar to sound like a particular artist or a particular song, you tell it via a natural language input and it does all the adjustments for you.
You STILL have to have the personal talent to, you know, PLAY the guitar, but it saves you hours of fiddling with dials and figuring out what effects and pedals to apply to get the sound you’re looking for.
Video, same player, same guitar, same amp, multiple sounds:
this is cool tbh. i think thats what ai should be using for. not some ai slop
That’s what I thought, it allows creatives to be creative.
Kind of like if you had an art program you could ask for “Give me a paint palette with the colors from Starry Night.”
You still have to have the artistic talent to make use of them, it’s not going to help you there, but it saves you hours of research and mixing.
they shouldnt allow people to create slop
Definitely agreed, but if AI can, I dunno, generate a list of pantone colors in a work, that leaves the actual art up to the artist.
