Built on unearned hype.

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      It’s not for you. Its for corporations who want to fire half their staff and replace them with an algorithm. That’s why it has such a high valuation.

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        Those corporations are about to find out the fun way that these algorithms, in their current and near-future states, cannot replace human beings.

        Well, except for maybe lazy copywriters who pump out pointless listicles and executives who do - whatever it is they do - but any non-trivial task requiring creativity and understanding is beyond these tools.

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          You’re assuming that they care about running a viable service or product.

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            The hope is that their customers care. Or their customer’s customers.

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            The “corporation” might care. The Senior Vice Director of Data Intelligence who made the decision and got $50k bonus for it does not

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          • Computers might be good at numbers and typesetting, but we’ll always need human secretaries and phone operators to keep things running.
          • They might be able to beat a novice, but no computer will ever beat a human grandmaster at chess.
          • Okay, then they can’t beat humans at Go or poker.
          • Any non-trivial task requiring creativity and understanding is beyond these tools. ← you are here
          • AI-run corporations will never be able to outcompete ones with ones with human boards and CEOs.
          • An AI scriptwriter could never win an Oscar.
          • I’m voting for the human candidate for president, I don’t think the AI one is up to the task.
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        An AI chatbot for a cloud service I use helped me find the right documentation for setting up SSO. It’s not all bad. But the way it’s pushed is bad.

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      It’s all leading to one final product: VR sex robots

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      It’s not related to the technology, is the venture industry trying tp figure out the next unicorn, which they have been trying to find for the last ten years.

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      Honestly, I can say I don’t really get it either. I would only use the open source models anyway, but it just seems rather silly from what I can tell.

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        I would only use the open source models anyway, but it just seems rather silly from what I can tell.

        I feel like the last few months have been an inflection point, at least for me. Qwen 2.5, and the new Command-R, really make a 24GB GPU feel “dumb, but smart,” useful enough so I pretty much always keep Qwen 32B loaded on the desktop for its sheer utility.

        It’s still in the realm of enthusiast hardware (aka a used 3090), but hopefully that’s about to be shaken up with bitnet and some stuff from AMD/Intel.

        Altman is literally a vampire though, and thankfully I think he’s going to burn OpenAI to the ground.

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          What do you think about the possibility of decentralized AI through blockchain so that you could pay some tokens or something like that to rent the GPUs to run your AI for as long as you wish to instead of having to buy all the hardware and assemble it yourself?

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            you mean a computing pool, like SETI@home since the late 90s?

            absolutely no need to make this idea stink of a crypto scam.

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            You can already do it but there isn’t really any need for a blockchain. I personally use runpod but there’s vast.ai and a few others.

            It’s usually quite cheap.

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            Tbh it’s just hard to see the value proposition in the age of cloud computing. I think aspects of the underlying technology are cool but basically every crypto project that comes to mind has been an actual scam. Sure there’s eth and RDNR that was built on top of it but why should i spend what will ultimately be more money in periods of high demand (gas goes up when more people use the network) when i can just plug my credit card into amazon or microsoft AND get the benefit of infosec regulation like PCI-DSS. Crypto just doesn’t ever inspire confidence because bad actors consistently shit in the punch bowl while providing no extra utility over existing cloud providers.

            When distilled down crypto-compute just seems like cloud compute with extra steps, which is already just using a computer with extra steps.

            We already can rent GPUs to run AIs with tokens - those tokens are just managed by govt instead of some random.

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            I somehow didnt’ get a notification for its post, but thats a terrible idea lol.

            We already have AI horde, and it has nothing to do with blockchain. We also have APIs and GPU services… that have nothing to do with blockchain, and have no need for blockchain.

            Someone apparently already tried the scheme you are describing, and absolutely no one in the wider AI community uses it.

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        Are you trying to solve science with it or something? You are supposed to turn carefully worded sentences into funny pictures and show people.

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      It doesn’t matter. Just understand that there are people who get paid way more than the average joe to hype the shit out these companies to attract investor value. Then get mad at capitalism like the rest of us.

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      MBA degrees are way too easy to obtain. And the federal government bailing things out for a few decades has taught the market that they can take huge risks without much direct risk.

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      It’s just the new grift. There’s probably some value in there somewhere, some elements of it that will evolve into useful tools that get used a lot and presumably make a bunch of money for someone but yeah. Grifters gonna grift.

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      I like it. I use it every day. Much faster and better than sifting through garbage websites to find answers.