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I don't know what industry your company is in, but godspeed to your CEO on tanking your company with AI bullshit so that this stupid f**ing bubble pops and ever

I don't know what industry your company is in, but godspeed to your CEO on tanking your company with AI bullshit so that this stupid f**ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain instead of working on better serving Roko's Basilisk. Couldn't be more excited for this kind of short-sighted, AI-instead-of-people thinking to become shameful. How many people need to aim the gun at their foot and pull the trigger before they're not bragging as they do it?

franktankbank 2y ago
Hmm, the AI integrations don't seem to be panning out, I'm guessing its the wrong engineering team... lets try offshore!
ffsm8 2y ago
> pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain I am sorry I have to burst your bubble, but that is not going to happen, ever. This is the new normal now. We have to accept that reality and adjust accordingly. Maybe with new hiring filters or similar. Hopefully these filters won't be just a LLM hallucinating random things, but realistically speaking... Yeah, it's gonna be that, isn't it?
- conartist6 2y ago
  I'm not disputing that there will be a new normal. It's not that I think things will go back to how they were before, but this level of hype that showers cash on anyone who as much as speaks the words AI is not going to persist.
- ironmagma 2y ago
  > that is not going to happen, ever This is exactly the sort of thing people start saying before a bubble pops.
paulcole 2y ago
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
- bigtex 2y ago
  They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.
  - paulcole 2y ago
    I mean I pay for several already. If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT. But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?
    - ironmagma 2y ago
      > What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time? Cloud. And AI is not very different from the fundamentals of Cloud; there's vendor lock-in, meaning the vendors can raise prices at will, representing a liability to whoever tries to depend on them.
      - paulcole 2y ago
        > Cloud There’s short-term increases sure but there’s no doubt in my mind that $100 in cloud today gets you much more than $100 in cloud 10 years ago. And the $100 is worth less today!
    - stcroixx 2y ago
      Splintered streaming services cost more than a cable package used to.
- conartist6 2y ago
senectus1 2y ago
>AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully Its not going away. Its an elevator of low ability. those with low skills or ability can make great use to elevate their skills and abilities. Those with high skills and abilitities will not use it for much, but will notice that the skill gap between themselves and those with lower skills will get smaller, faster and with little effort. They're unlikely to match them, but it will level the playing field very quickly and with little effort exerted.

franktankbank 2y ago

Hmm, the AI integrations don't seem to be panning out, I'm guessing its the wrong engineering team... lets try offshore!

ffsm8 2y ago

> pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain I am sorry I have to burst your bubble, but that is not going to happen, ever. This is the new normal now. We have to accept that reality and adjust accordingly. Maybe with new hiring filters or similar. Hopefully these filters won't be just a LLM hallucinating random things, but realistically speaking... Yeah, it's gonna be that, isn't it?

conartist6 2y ago
I'm not disputing that there will be a new normal. It's not that I think things will go back to how they were before, but this level of hype that showers cash on anyone who as much as speaks the words AI is not going to persist.
ironmagma 2y ago
> that is not going to happen, ever This is exactly the sort of thing people start saying before a bubble pops.

paulcole 2y ago

> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?

bigtex 2y ago
They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.
- paulcole 2y ago
  I mean I pay for several already. If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT. But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?
  - ironmagma 2y ago
    > What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time? Cloud. And AI is not very different from the fundamentals of Cloud; there's vendor lock-in, meaning the vendors can raise prices at will, representing a liability to whoever tries to depend on them.
    - paulcole 2y ago
      > Cloud There’s short-term increases sure but there’s no doubt in my mind that $100 in cloud today gets you much more than $100 in cloud 10 years ago. And the $100 is worth less today!
  - stcroixx 2y ago
    Splintered streaming services cost more than a cable package used to.
conartist6 2y ago

senectus1 2y ago

>AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully Its not going away. Its an elevator of low ability. those with low skills or ability can make great use to elevate their skills and abilities. Those with high skills and abilitities will not use it for much, but will notice that the skill gap between themselves and those with lower skills will get smaller, faster and with little effort. They're unlikely to match them, but it will level the playing field very quickly and with little effort exerted.