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While I love generative AI and support open source AI movements because of my enthusiasm for the technology, I have been extremely skeptical about all the effor
by amiantos 2y ago
While I love generative AI and support open source AI movements because of my enthusiasm for the technology, I have been extremely skeptical about all the efforts to monetize it in big time capitalist terms, both from big companies and several friends who thought AI was their big break to get into tech millions. There's just no full product there that isn't tacking an LLM or image generation into an existing product. So, at face value, I agree with this article, but I think it feels a little too gleeful, a little too "I told you so", even if in some ways it validates my own personal "I told you so". I worry the author overall does not like AI technology, which is popular to dislike these days, and that is coloring the overall tone of the piece, it's hard to tell.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoI think businesses are more focused on getting AI to a point where it can do trillions of dollars of work by itself, and then selling those services. Charging for a chat bot in the short term is just a stop gap until they get there