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The AI PR Industrial Complex
- bertman 3y ago[flagged]
- kantrowitz 3y agoSolid summary!
- slowmovintarget 3y agoWhy was this flagged? I see two direct responses of "good summary." Was it political? Offensive somehow?
- bertman 3y agoYeah, I don't know why my summary was flagged either. I like testing LLMs on article summarization (especially on articles about AI), and found this to be a very good summary, that's why I posted it.
- the_only_law 3y agoThere’s a negative reaction to chatgpt generated comments. Personally I understand it somewhat as there seems to be a number of bots running around making useless comments on a site that’s always prided itself on being better than everyone else. I don’t really mind these sort of summary type comments, but I suppose enough people do.
- newswasboring 3y agoPeople don't like ChatGPT summaries. It's not authentic enough for them. I tried it once, had the exact same experience.
- zug_zug 3y agoGood summary. Just not clear what the point is -- I mean aren't all these points obvious to everybody? Nobody actually thought IBM was doing layoffs because AI, or that politicians have any understanding of AI. Just seems like venting.
- bertman 3y ago>I mean aren't all these points obvious to everybody? Pretty much, yeah. Ironically, this makes rants like OP part of the AI PR Industrial Complex.
- uoaei 3y agoYou are in a tiny bubble full of smart people if you think this was obvious to anyone, relatively speaking.
- AuBon320 3y ago[dead]
- horeszko 3y agoIn the last 2 years I've seen companies go from hyping cryptocurrencies to metaverse and now to AI. And each time they announce it as if it's the be all end all and they're going all in with the new tech and it will change everything. I can't help but sense the desperation the 3rd time around, I think a lot of these companies get swept up in the hype because they don't really have a sense of where they are going. It's like the growth has ran out or something.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoAny time there is a gold rush there are a lot of scammers that will try and prey on people with gold fever. ChatGPT, Midjourney and Copilot already see a ton of use though, and they're the first real "AI" products, so I think it's already proven not to be vaporware.
- daniel-cussen 3y ago[dead]
- Loughla 3y agoWhat is midjourney being used for other than to make amusing reddit pictures and general messing around by laypeople? Is it being used in an industry and I'm just not aware of it?
- rchaud 3y agoI expect that one of the generative image companies will be purchased by Getty Images or Adobe or Canva. Think of all the blogposts and social media graphics and advertising that uses boring, ill-fitting stock imagery. Companies want to replace that with 'their' IP, which is this case will be contextually-generated AI images.
- valdiorn 3y agoGaming industry is HEAVILY bought into text to image. For concept art, textures, background scenes, filler content, etc. So many use cases. Same with web design (for filler images, background art, etc), and design in general; basically, anything you'd previously employ a concept artist for, you can now do most of their work with midjourney or similar tools. https://aituts.com/midjourney-web-design/ https://aituts.com/midjourney-web-design/ https://80.lv/articles/a-shoot-em-up-game-made-with-midjourney-art/?amp=1 https://80.lv/articles/a-shoot-em-up-game-made-with-midjourn...
- dade_ 3y ago‘Take IBM, for example. Just this week its CEO Arvind Krishna said his company would pause hiring for back-office roles that AI might replace, suggesting AI could take over as many as 7,800 positions.’ In 10 years, IBM has gone from announcing curing cancer with AI to announcing the elimination of some roles with AI. I can’t wait for what they announce in another 10 years!
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- UIUC_06 3y agoBig question: will AI last longer than spiral croissants? I vote Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAbPaWosphk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAbPaWosphk Yesterday morning, I saw a line of 15 people waiting to get into a bakeshop that apparently has them. LLMs take a little more time & investment than spiral croissants.
- screye 3y agounrelated, but spiral Kougn-Amann's have been a thing for a while now. The supposed best-in-the-world croissant bakery also sells them [1]. Would highly recommend both the croissants and Kouign-Amanns. [1] https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d14788722-Reviews-La_Maison_d_Isabelle-Paris_Ile_de_France.html#photos;aggregationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=409673006 https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d14788...
- AlbertCory 3y agoI bought one of those and asked the clerk how to pronounce it. It was very noisy but I think she said either koog-a-MAH or KOOG-a-mah. How do you say it?
- screye 3y agoQueen-umm-ahn ahn as in 'Oliver Kahn'
- Animats 3y agoAlthough, because LLMs actually work, the companies that are doing it are getting the attention, not the ones just blithering about it. Unlike the metaverse and crypto.
- nullsense 3y agoWhen I played around with VR and crypto I remember thinking "this is cool!". When I play around with things like GPT-4, and LLaVA i think "this is insane".
- soulofmischief 3y agoYeah, people focusing on the weaknesses of current llm tech are missing the point. This is an optimistic phase in tech history.
- armchairhacker 3y agoML/AI has been over-hyped before diffusion models and ChatGPT. I remember in 2017 hearing AI buzzwords and seeing AI hackathon projects alongside VR and crypto, and apparently it's been going on to some extent since the early 2010s. But seeing LLMs show genuine intelligence and general reasoning has definitely pushed the hype exponentially further.