Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by bx376 » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 1:13 AM UTC

Artificial intelligence is losing hype
economist.com

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Post by megamike » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 1:18 AM UTC

tell me I am already bored with it next.....

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Post by mrinfinitiesx » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 2:05 AM UTC

Good. It's decent for summarizing and giving me bullet points and explaining things like I'm 5, makes it easy to code things that I don't want to code or spend time figuring out how to do with new languages, other than that, I see no real world applications outside of listening to burger king orders and putting them on a screen for people to make them. Simple support requests, and of course making buzzword-esque documents that you can feed in to a deck-maker for presentations and stuff.

All in all, it helps assist us in new ways. Had somebody take a picture of a car part that had no markings and it identified it, found the maker/manufacturer/SKU and gave all the details etc. That stuff is useful.

But now we're looking at in-authentic stuff. Artists, writers being plagiarized, job cuts (for said marketing/pitches, BS presentations to downsize teams). It's not just losing its hype, its losing any hype in building humanity for the better. It's just more buzzwords, more 'glamour' more 'pop' shoved in our faces.

The layoffs aren't looking pretty.

Works well to help us code though. Viva, sysadmins unite.

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Post by mensetmanusman » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 3:24 AM UTC

I’m just surprised something nearly replaced google in my lifetime.

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Post by jimjimjim » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 3:26 AM UTC

But what about all those organizations that have "Do something with AI" as the goal for the quarter? All those bonuses driving people to somehow add AI to products. All the poor devs that have been told to replace features driven by deterministic code with AI good-enough-ness.

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Post by 11thEarlOfMar » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 3:30 AM UTC

Not until we've seen a plethora of AI startups go public with no revenue.

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Post by ianbutler » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 3:39 AM UTC

This supposed “cycle” has been crazy it’s been about 1.5 years since gpt4 came out, which is really the first generally capable model. I think a lot of this “cycle” is media’s wishful thinking. Humans, especially humans in large bureaucracies, just don't move this quickly. Enterprises have barely had time to dip their toes in.

For what it’s worth hype doesn’t mean sustainability anyway. If all the jokers go onto a new fad it’s hardly the skin off the back of anyone taking this seriously, they’ve been through worse times.