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Somewhere down the line there will also be a very heavy crash when everyone becomes disillusioned with this hype-driven self-proclaimed "AI" revolution (if we c

Somewhere down the line there will also be a very heavy crash when everyone becomes disillusioned with this hype-driven self-proclaimed "AI" revolution (if we can call it that..). Misleading the investors and regulators and manipulating the market. Silicon Valley being SV once again!

1270018080 3y ago
Web3 "influencers" pivoted quickly to AI. What's next?
- dinvlad 3y ago
  Ikr? Tomorrow it’ll be the new shiny, with even less value and more hype!
- rgoulter 3y ago
  I think this unnecessarily dismisses 'AI' alongside 'Web3' just because a hype cycle has moved from one to the other. I wouldn't put them in the same bucket, though. Web3 had lots of jargon that made it inaccessible for outsiders; it's difficult to point to use cases most people could care about. Blockchain technologies aren't going to be all that useful for only one user. With AI, it's easier to imagine cases where this can be useful (e.g. coding assistants), which don't suffer the same downsides.
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  - dinvlad 3y ago
    Well, it's not really an "AI" if it doesn't have a truthful model of the world. I can see how people would think it's useful, but they don't see the downsides that come with it, and it's gonna become harder and harder to not be misled.
mrtksn 3y ago
I think this will follow the innovation cycles curve, i.e. the hype will be followed by a crash, which will be followed by widespread adoption and complete transformation of the humanity. I suspect that once the flashy headlines die off, people will realize that you can't be better than the competition using the same AI tools everybody uses and the idea of replacing humans with the latest flashy AI tool will be replaced with AI tools being the baseline. This will simply result in having the bottom of the barrel in all areas in human productivity to be replaced with the current average in a similar way that industrialisation brought even the worst of the industrial consumer products to the previous average and made those accessible to everyone. So, even when the hype fades we will end up with much higher bar of expectations. This is going to be a transformation of the society similar to the industrial revolution.
- dinvlad 3y ago
  I highly doubt it will lead to anything but more suffering for humanity. And we’ve got to understand that no new tech was invented here, they’re using the same principles and methods that have been used for the past 40-50 years, but just throwing more compute power and feeding more data to it. It’s a hollow promise, a "fake it till you make it” approach, and just another BS marketing, imho That said, its ability to generate spam and divert income from hard-working people (based on ill conception they can be “replaced”) will probably be unprecedented.

1270018080 3y ago

Web3 "influencers" pivoted quickly to AI. What's next?

dinvlad 3y ago
Ikr? Tomorrow it’ll be the new shiny, with even less value and more hype!
rgoulter 3y ago
I think this unnecessarily dismisses 'AI' alongside 'Web3' just because a hype cycle has moved from one to the other. I wouldn't put them in the same bucket, though. Web3 had lots of jargon that made it inaccessible for outsiders; it's difficult to point to use cases most people could care about. Blockchain technologies aren't going to be all that useful for only one user. With AI, it's easier to imagine cases where this can be useful (e.g. coding assistants), which don't suffer the same downsides.
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- dinvlad 3y ago
  Well, it's not really an "AI" if it doesn't have a truthful model of the world. I can see how people would think it's useful, but they don't see the downsides that come with it, and it's gonna become harder and harder to not be misled.

mrtksn 3y ago

I think this will follow the innovation cycles curve, i.e. the hype will be followed by a crash, which will be followed by widespread adoption and complete transformation of the humanity. I suspect that once the flashy headlines die off, people will realize that you can't be better than the competition using the same AI tools everybody uses and the idea of replacing humans with the latest flashy AI tool will be replaced with AI tools being the baseline. This will simply result in having the bottom of the barrel in all areas in human productivity to be replaced with the current average in a similar way that industrialisation brought even the worst of the industrial consumer products to the previous average and made those accessible to everyone. So, even when the hype fades we will end up with much higher bar of expectations. This is going to be a transformation of the society similar to the industrial revolution.

dinvlad 3y ago
I highly doubt it will lead to anything but more suffering for humanity. And we’ve got to understand that no new tech was invented here, they’re using the same principles and methods that have been used for the past 40-50 years, but just throwing more compute power and feeding more data to it. It’s a hollow promise, a "fake it till you make it” approach, and just another BS marketing, imho That said, its ability to generate spam and divert income from hard-working people (based on ill conception they can be “replaced”) will probably be unprecedented.