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> Yet it is here to stay, won't go away Source for this claim? Are you still using Groupon?
by yifanl 1y ago
> Yet it is here to stay, won't go away
Source for this claim? Are you still using Groupon?
- sindriava 1y agoComparing a general technology (AI) to a specific company (Groupon) is a category error. To your point coupons still exist and people use them and Anthropic might not exist in 2 years while AI will.
- sshine 1y agoPeople are. Just like crypto. Just look at the bitcoin hashrate; it’s a steep curve.
- brokencode 1y agoYou must be living on a different planet if you think the adoption and societal impact Groupon was ever remotely comparable to AI.
- yifanl 1y agoI assure you as someone working FoH at the time, Groupon's impact on me was far greater than AI ever could be.
- brokencode 1y agoI’m talking about how it impacts society in general, not you specifically. Also, I don’t think you appreciate how deeply AI will affect your life in the future. The next time you get a CT for example, it might be an AI system that finds a lung nodule and saves your life. Or for a negative possibility, consider how deepfakes could seriously degrade politics and the media landscape. There are massive potential upsides and downsides to AI that will almost certainly impact you more than a coupon company.
- dpoloncsak 1y agoThe last time we saw a bet from Wall St like we are seeing with AI, was when they bet on the internet. Do you still use the internet?
- turzmo 1y agoMaybe a better generalization, the last time [bubble] happened, do you still use [bubble]? Depends on the nature of the bubble, doesn't it?
- TeMPOraL 1y agoIndeed. Therefore, the past bubbles most similar to AI are the one around Internet, and the earlier one around electricity.
- Jensson 1y ago> the past bubbles most similar to AI are the one around Internet I'd say crypto is more similar, the internet and telephones and rails and roads and electricity is around connective infrastructure, AI and crypto is around compute. Connective infrastructure is almost always useful, local computed things is harder to motivate hype for because its usefulness isn't as apparent as adding more connectivity.
- dpoloncsak 1y agoCrypto STILL hasn’t seen widespread user adoption like ChatGPT has. My CIO never asked about blockchain technology, but he sure as hell is asking about AI
- satisfice 1y agoI still use the Internet. The Internet is also a technology that undermines society.
- petralithic 1y ago
- hex4def6 1y agoOf course it's here to stay. There are models that are --right-now-- great at text-to-speech, speech-to-text, categorization, image recognition, etc etc. Even if progress stopped now, these models would be useful in their current state. Your argument could just as easily be applied to social networks ("are you still using friendster?") or e-commerce ("are you still using pets.com?). GPT3 or Kimi K2 or Mistral is going to become obsolete at some point, but that's because the succeeding models are going to be fundamentally better. That doesn't mean that they weren't themselves fit for a certain task.