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And everyone with any sense said blockchains were stupid tech. So many people have been following the hype of foolish tech trends that they can no longer diff
by BoiledCabbage 2y ago
And everyone with any sense said blockchains were stupid tech.
So many people have been following the hype of foolish tech trends that they can no longer differentiate them from actual ground shifting technology.
It's sad what blockchain hype has done to a supposed tech audience. To this day all nobody can describe an actual large impactuf use for blockchains other than get rich quick. Even with the tech there it does nothing for day to day life.
Duplicating portions of human intelligence has tremendous practical use in every facet of society. The tech just needs to get there.
It's pet rocks vs electricity.
- rsynnott 2y ago> And everyone with any sense said blockchains were stupid tech. And yet practically every big company was falling over itself to have a ‘blockchain strategy’ (remember IBM’s thing?) Sound familiar? > Duplicating portions of human intelligence has tremendous practical use in every facet of society. The tech just needs to get there. Trouble is, that’s a _huge_ ‘just’.
- lolinder 2y ago> Duplicating portions of human intelligence has tremendous practical use in every facet of society. The tech just needs to get there. That last part is the only part that skeptics are skeptical of. GPT-4 is amazing in a lot of ways and shouldn't be discounted, but the grandest predictions of AI's impact depend on the exponential growth we saw in 2022-2023 continuing. What we've seen this year (GPT-4o, increasing cries from the established players for governments to build them a moat) suggests that that's not happening. We seem to have hit a cap on capabilities and have started just making it smaller and faster. This is great and will be useful, but GPT-4-level tech isn't going to revolutionize everything the way that the hype suggests. We need something more.