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I have a hard time looking at the world around me and thinking "close to no value"

• dgellow 2mo ago
  I’m talking specifically about the AI industry
  • brookst 2mo ago
    Well, how does it compare to the internet industry?
    • dgellow 2mo ago
      Let me know, I personally don’t see meaningful comparisons to make between the 2
      • brookst 2mo ago
        The meaningful comparison is that technologies are not industries. What even is the internet industry? There was a brief time in the 1990’s when that was a thing, just like AI will be subsumed as a technology in actual industries in the next decade.
• inigyou 2mo ago
  Besides technological progress which has nothing to do with this effect and would have happened anyway, what's the value that we didn't have 30 years ago?
  • brabel 2mo ago
    It’s so incredible to me that now we have a chat interface we can ask about anything in any language and get really great answers, something literally considered science fiction a few years ago, and people still act like that is no big deal at all. No value in something like that! Don’t tell me it’s inaccurate, I strongly believe it’s way more accurate than if you could ask an expert in each topic , which of course you couldn’t and even if you did, you would most likely not want to since you would get a lot of “you don’t actually want that, you want this unrelated thing, trust me I am better than you”. Just remember StackOverflow (depending on how young you are perhaps you never even heard of that given how much AI has eclipsed it)!
    • inigyou 2mo ago
      It gives wrong answers.
    • legacynl 2mo ago
      > I strongly believe it’s way more accurate than if you could ask an expert in each topic You can believe anything you want. I can also believe that the only thing that has gone up in the last 30 years is billionaires' worth, and amount of idiots saying things they don't know anything about. I strongly believe this. Don't tell me it's inaccurate.
      • brabel 2mo ago
        At least you acknowledge you believe in absurdities. My belief is not absurd , it’s what I have seen myself in the last year or so.
    • slg 2mo ago
      >It’s so incredible to me that now we have a chat interface we can ask about anything in any language and get really great answers, something literally considered science fiction a few years ago, and people still act like that is no big deal at all. Because the importance of this is all about perspective. It wasn't like these systems created this information out of thin air. They were trained on something. That means the answers they are giving you have been available for decades. You just needed the know-how to find that information and synthesize the answers yourself. To many of us, it's like going from the old physical card catalogs to a modern digital system that would have seemed like sci-fi to a prior generation too. It's definitely more efficient and easier to use, but people acting like it's revolutionary seem to be suggesting that the old system didn't exist or wasn't usable with a little effort.
      • brabel 2mo ago
        > You just needed the know-how to find that information and synthesize the answers yourself. So easy , right?? No one needs a machine that can do that automatically over huge amounts of data and that can clearly communicate results in a way the user can clearly understand in their preferred language!