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Deep learning actually provides something of value now, and the training is in service of seeing if maybe it could do better in the future. Crypto provides a wa
by thot_experiment 3y ago
Deep learning actually provides something of value now, and the training is in service of seeing if maybe it could do better in the future. Crypto provides a way to part fools from their money, and a way to circumvent financial laws.
Yes, I get that there's "value" to circumventing sanctions and whatnot, but that's the same sort of value as making people phone you to cancel a subscription or optimizing CTR on an ad or whatever. It's not the kind of "value" that benefits society.
- x86x87 3y agolol. value for whom? deep learning just serves the interests of the owners, the corporations and the 1%.
- thot_experiment 3y agoI've personally gotten a lot of value out of generative AI models and I run/train everything locally on 5 year old hardware. It's the literal opposite of the thing you said, we finally have AI that's incredibly accessible and open. Anyone with a half decent GPU can do interesting things with a 2gb blob of tensors.