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'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

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Re: 'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

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Post by lovich »

Kiro wrote: post #7

Is 100x even controversial anymore? Anyone can do it by just throwing the whole backlog at AI and let it go crazy. What's the bottleneck? You don't need to babysit LLMs anymore. The problem is that you can only keep up with so much, but it's obvious that a lot of people and companies don't care about that.

> Is 100x even controversial anymore?

Are you making 100x more profit or at least revenue? 50x more? 20x more?

Show me the company making even 10x more and I might be amenable to the argument that it isn’t controversial.

Re: 'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

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Post by greggoB »

cl42 wrote: post #20
ebb_earl_co wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m curious what makes you a supporter, as you say? Supporting the companies that make them or the developers themselves pushing the technology forward or the impacts of the proliferation of the LLMs’ usage or something else?

I’m a supporter of the technology and believe it is transformative.

Transformative implies neither good nor bad. You started this thought in your original comment re social media and how that's now possibly perceived as a net negative, despite the original aims of its inventors.

Is there something someone could hypothetically tell you about how AI/LLMs as a technology might come to be understood as a net negative that would sway your support?

For full disclosure, I sit on the other side of this fence, with a constant concern of the issues that we will see arise. As an exercise, I try to imagine how these issues will be outweighed by the positives, though it's a challenge tbh.

Re: 'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

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Post by Kiro »

lovich wrote: post #21
Kiro wrote: post #7

Is 100x even controversial anymore? Anyone can do it by just throwing the whole backlog at AI and let it go crazy. What's the bottleneck? You don't need to babysit LLMs anymore. The problem is that you can only keep up with so much, but it's obvious that a lot of people and companies don't care about that.

> Is 100x even controversial anymore? Are you making 100x more profit or at least revenue? 50x more? 20x more? Show me the company making even 10x more and I might be amenable to the argument that it isn’t controversial.

There's obviously no such correlation.

Re: 'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

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Post by Kiro »

sarchertech wrote: post #16
Kiro wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how you reached that conclusion and most people do not make OSes. A normal backlog at a standard company is not comparable. Your edit is even more peculiar. Writing a C compiler in Rust? Come on. I'm obviously talking about normal grunt work. And what are you even using as a benchmark? It's not 100x compared to what?

You’re the one that said it’s a 100x productivity increase, so I assume you meant compared to a software developer writing without AI. What else are you using as a benchmark? So it can’t 100x writing an OS even though it has tons of OS code in the training set. It can’t 100x a compiler. Based on personal experience (and number of games released on Steam compared to last year) it can’t 100x game development. At my ver…

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Re: 'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

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Post by lovich »

Kiro wrote: post #23
lovich wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is 100x even controversial anymore? Are you making 100x more profit or at least revenue? 50x more? 20x more? Show me the company making even 10x more and I might be amenable to the argument that it isn’t controversial.

There's obviously no such correlation.

If there is no correlation between productivity and revenue/profit what is the point of the investment?
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