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Generative AI will turn into a crypto style echo chamber, where no meaningful business cases emerge but a bunch of true believers cant stop talking about how ga

Generative AI will turn into a crypto style echo chamber, where no meaningful business cases emerge but a bunch of true believers cant stop talking about how game changing it is. Deloitte will develop a generative AI consulting practice. The world will start to move on.

jatins 4y ago
Generative AI is already past the utility that Crypto ever had. Copywriting industry is going to be AI powered going forward, Copilot is widely loved by programmers and generative images are also finding utility in things like AI powered logo makers.
- happymellon 4y ago
  Copilot is massively polarising. Aside from that, I think that we are at a crossroads with Generative AI. ChatGPT is amazing, but that's because it's sources are all human. What happens when Stack overflow gets a load of copypasta from these ChatBots, we already can see some small logic bugs in outputs and when it starts to see itself, or other lower quality bots, churning out buggy code will that impact it? We could enter an era where developers become the person who can best express a technical requirement for ChatGPT to spit out working code. Or we could become proofreaders. The people reading all the outputs and fixing the bugs that are generated from the bots, the best coders are those with the most experience with crappy outputs and can fix what the bot meant to do.
  - tremon 4y ago
    What happens when Stack overflow gets a load of copypasta from these ChatBots This happens: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-po... > The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce
    - happymellon 4y ago
      And that's today. My mind was thinking of the future, where the confidently wrong becomes the echo chamber due to the overwhelming volumes of responses in Stack Overflow, which is also the training source. The wrong would only get worse as they would train each other to be more confident, and more wrong.
      - speedgoose 4y ago
        If only stackoverflow had a voting system.
        happymellon 4y ago
        If the bots are replying, the bots are voting.
arkitaip 4y ago
Every day I'm seeing devs, designers, writers and other professionals showcase how they are already using Generative AIs at work.
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mellosouls 4y ago
I'm generally anti-hype but this seems a very bad take, as others have noted. Generative AI has already changed the game for early adopters, and this is just the start in terms of functional power and popular awareness. Days and weeks after launching in each case. Cryptocurrency has still yet to find a convincing use case after ten years.
- Bombinator 4y ago
  Aren't anonymous transactions a use for it? Like monero
  - MrDvs 4y ago
    What problem does that solve?
    - Eisenstein 4y ago
      That it is tough to safely and anonymously transfer money for illegal purchases without using cash in person.
    - curtisblaine 4y ago
      Paying businesses that have been abandoned by Visa / Mastercard.
  - onetokeoverthe 4y ago
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samwillis 4y ago
My prediction is that someone will create a Generative Photo app for real estate agents, every house listing will have a bunch of crappy generated "photos" of what the interiors could look like. The developer of it will become a billionaire. The fad will last 3 years and then stop as they realise it just puts people off. I will then look back at this comment in three years time, and think "that cold have been me"...
- georgeburdell 4y ago
  I’ve been seeing simulated decor in real estate listing for years. I think this could actually could persist for a while
  - samwillis 4y ago
    Yes, but going by how badly written real estate listings listings are, imaging letting them loose on generative AI!
- _yb2s 4y ago
  This has already happened. I have gone to see listings where I didn’t realize until I was there that the photos were fake, and that the place was actually a mess.
  - rlt 4y ago
    Yup, it's called "virtual staging".
codegeek 4y ago
Funny but I have already started thinking/saying the same thing. Whenever there is something that becomes so popular so fast, it brings out the worst in people. I think Crypto will not completely die but mostly fade off in the next 2-3 years. AI in theory has a lot more applications but due to the whole ChatGPT stuff where everyone is creating "content using AI", it will crash and burn as quality of output will suffer and ultimately will be useless.

jatins 4y ago

Generative AI is already past the utility that Crypto ever had. Copywriting industry is going to be AI powered going forward, Copilot is widely loved by programmers and generative images are also finding utility in things like AI powered logo makers.

happymellon 4y ago
Copilot is massively polarising. Aside from that, I think that we are at a crossroads with Generative AI. ChatGPT is amazing, but that's because it's sources are all human. What happens when Stack overflow gets a load of copypasta from these ChatBots, we already can see some small logic bugs in outputs and when it starts to see itself, or other lower quality bots, churning out buggy code will that impact it? We could enter an era where developers become the person who can best express a technical requirement for ChatGPT to spit out working code. Or we could become proofreaders. The people reading all the outputs and fixing the bugs that are generated from the bots, the best coders are those with the most experience with crappy outputs and can fix what the bot meant to do.
- tremon 4y ago
  What happens when Stack overflow gets a load of copypasta from these ChatBots This happens: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-po... > The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce
  - happymellon 4y ago
    And that's today. My mind was thinking of the future, where the confidently wrong becomes the echo chamber due to the overwhelming volumes of responses in Stack Overflow, which is also the training source. The wrong would only get worse as they would train each other to be more confident, and more wrong.
    - speedgoose 4y ago
      If only stackoverflow had a voting system.
      - happymellon 4y ago
        If the bots are replying, the bots are voting.

arkitaip 4y ago

Every day I'm seeing devs, designers, writers and other professionals showcase how they are already using Generative AIs at work.

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mellosouls 4y ago

I'm generally anti-hype but this seems a very bad take, as others have noted. Generative AI has already changed the game for early adopters, and this is just the start in terms of functional power and popular awareness. Days and weeks after launching in each case. Cryptocurrency has still yet to find a convincing use case after ten years.

Bombinator 4y ago
Aren't anonymous transactions a use for it? Like monero
- MrDvs 4y ago
  What problem does that solve?
  - Eisenstein 4y ago
    That it is tough to safely and anonymously transfer money for illegal purchases without using cash in person.
  - curtisblaine 4y ago
    Paying businesses that have been abandoned by Visa / Mastercard.
- onetokeoverthe 4y ago
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samwillis 4y ago

My prediction is that someone will create a Generative Photo app for real estate agents, every house listing will have a bunch of crappy generated "photos" of what the interiors could look like. The developer of it will become a billionaire. The fad will last 3 years and then stop as they realise it just puts people off. I will then look back at this comment in three years time, and think "that cold have been me"...

georgeburdell 4y ago
I’ve been seeing simulated decor in real estate listing for years. I think this could actually could persist for a while
- samwillis 4y ago
  Yes, but going by how badly written real estate listings listings are, imaging letting them loose on generative AI!
_yb2s 4y ago
This has already happened. I have gone to see listings where I didn’t realize until I was there that the photos were fake, and that the place was actually a mess.
- rlt 4y ago
  Yup, it's called "virtual staging".

codegeek 4y ago

Funny but I have already started thinking/saying the same thing. Whenever there is something that becomes so popular so fast, it brings out the worst in people. I think Crypto will not completely die but mostly fade off in the next 2-3 years. AI in theory has a lot more applications but due to the whole ChatGPT stuff where everyone is creating "content using AI", it will crash and burn as quality of output will suffer and ultimately will be useless.