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The analogy to electricity doesn’t make sense to me. OpenAI’s and their competitors’ products are already widely available, companies have added to AI to a bunc
by actuallyalys 2y ago
The analogy to electricity doesn’t make sense to me. OpenAI’s and their competitors’ products are already widely available, companies have added to AI to a bunch of apps, and the cost per token has already come down significantly. (Edit: not to mention openly licensed models.)
I also don’t see think it’s historically accurate. My understanding was that widespread electrification were motivated by lighting, the radio, and other applications. Getting electricity to more people probably helped spur further development, sure, but there were already “killer apps.”
- anon291 2y agoThe 'token economy' is but one facet of an AI revolution. From my perspective, the main point of LLMs has been to simply be marketing. No one wants to hear about protein folding, physics sim, etc.
- pphysch 2y agoAI algorithms alone definitely don't represent "energy" in a meaningful way, but high-quality data is a commodity. Part of the AI scam peeling back the facade on every AI product and realizing "oh this is actually pretty useless unless we already have high-quality automated data systems internally at $ORG", and the advancements in AI only make that nominally more accessible. No, synthetic data is not the solution, and Copilot won't build you a robust data platform. Digitalization and digital literacy are long-term trends that AI is at the whim of, but pretends otherwise.