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AI is not your friend

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Re: AI is not your friend

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How did this argument work when talking about locally run LLMs?

I think what he meant by AI is AI in services everywhere. I attended an AWS summit this week and 9 out of 10 of the almost 100 companies had AI written on the punchline of their stand. This is the AI the author meant, AI integrated into services that collect data and use that data to feed the AI to sell more stuff.

I was at a VC conference several months ago and ever since I've joked that if I learned nothing else while I was there, I learned how to spell "AI".

It's the frothiest space now. Interest rates are high, everyone wants thay next funding round, hence they glom onto the buzz and hype even if they don't have a product or a valid use case, even if they don't solve for anything.

Re: AI is not your friend

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post #6

How did this argument work when talking about locally run LLMs?

He would probably argue that future LLMs are less likely to have their weights released. It is remarkable and strange that we have so many open-weights models right now, considering how much they cost to make.

Re: AI is not your friend

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Well obviously this is true.

Doesn't change the fact that to participate in the world in just a few years you better pick one to interact with bc your not going to be doing too much "normal" stuff otherwise, like shop or write an article, or code a website, or go to work, or I think you get it.

I don't think AI is my friend. I don't have to like it for it to be necessary. There is no stopping this.

Pray tell, what else do we do?

Re: AI is not your friend

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I swear that the displaced artist writer mafia is pulling all the stops to try and write low grade hit pieces and AI doomer narratives.

Almost invariably the “artists” that are the loudest about how bad generative AI is on social media have 35 followers and make shitty digital “art”, which is mostly anime characters.
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