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Yes, there's a lot of hype and buzzwords. Certainly companies are slapping the "AI" label onto their products and jumping on the bandwagon in order to gin up i
by loudmax 3y ago
Yes, there's a lot of hype and buzzwords. Certainly companies are slapping the "AI" label onto their products and jumping on the bandwagon in order to gin up interest.
But there's a real technological change going on. Machines are capable of performing tasks that were nearly unthinkable two years ago. There's real progress beneath the hype.
AI workloads are going to be dramatically more significant in the next decade. A shift like this opens up real opportunities for smaller players to capture enormous market share. If SiFive manages to develop the best AI hardware, they could become bigger than Apple. Or they could fumble and go out of business. Either of these outcomes is genuinely possible when this kind of technological shift happens.
- giantrobot 3y ago> But there's a real technological change going on. Machines are capable of performing tasks that were nearly unthinkable two years ago. There's real progress beneath the hype. Like what? What's unthinkable tasks are so useful thanks to AI?
- i67vw3 3y agoMid-journey is a good example.
- giantrobot 3y agoSo AI has made nightmare fuel hands and photoshopped pictures cheaper. Was this unthinkable? Is it trillion dollar valuation worthy?
- nkingsy 3y agoWe are running towards the holodeck at shocking speed Speech -> immersive vr is an engineering challenge at this point.
- visarga 3y agoIt does a bunch of useful things already. Arguably most users of Copilot see it as having a positive contribution or they would not pay the price. Generative Image models are pretty good at fixing photos and creating vector art. Chatbots, even though they hallucinate, are consistently polite, helpful and efficient. They are good at sparking new ideas, playing fantasy games, debugging and rubberducking. Maybe they are also good therapists, when prompted right. They are universally used for summarisation, text based question answering, and extracting data in JSON.
- giantrobot 3y agoDo any of those uses justify hyperbole that SiFive will be worth a trillion dollars?
- ansible 3y agoA trillion dollars? Heck no. They may be worth more than Arm, Ltd. in a decade or so. That also depends upon Arm making some more bone-headed decisions too.
- sangnoir 3y ago> Like what? What's unthinkable tasks are so useful thanks to AI? Erasing strangers or unwanted items in the background on pictures taken by my phone locally from my Phone's photo app was unthinkable a few years since you needed Photoshop on a PC for that. I assume the TPU is doing heavy lifting on image segmentation since the UX is pretty much touch-to-erase.
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- chmod775 3y agoI asked SD to generate me a photo of Putin eating Turkish food and 30s later had a photo of Putin eating something that looks a lot like Turkish food. If I kept trying or threw more processing time at it, I'd have gotten something nicer. Probably. https://i.imgur.com/y5BfxBF.jpg https://i.imgur.com/y5BfxBF.jpg Two years ago this immensely useful feat would have been impossible to accomplish in 30 seconds. On a more serious note, ChatGPT has made made me a much more productive person. Recent example where it helped me a lot in getting an understanding of a new topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622335 - Even when it's making a fair amount of mistakes, it can be like a personal tutor who points you into the right directions when you're stumbling around in an unfamiliar field. Sort of like a much smarter search engine. Granted, useful to me doesn't mean useful to you. But there's also people to whom search engines aren't useful, because they don't know how or when to use them.