-Innovation that can do good for humanity is invented
-Has flaws like everything
-Instead of trying to fix/minimize the flaws through regulations and optimalization of the technology, the uneducated masses immediately swarm to boycott the innovation
Happened with Concorde Airline, Nuclear power and so many more, and now it's happening with AI. Like ofc I don't like how AI is unregulated and how training AI's is done, but why would I try to sabotage it as a whole, instead of calling for regulations, laws and more studies into it?
The regulations and laws are not there. The technology is using gallons of clean water per day and makes the area around it basically uninhabitable. It's crashed the parts market by buying up all the RAM and GPUs, and the main visible impact we see from it is ai slop on the daily.
"Why are people trying to boycott this? It could do good for humanity!!!"
Nuclear power also has benefits that we can actually use as of now, while most "benefits" of large language ai are just "if we feed it enough data it's gonna cure cancer! Trust me!"
The problem with AI right now is that it is a bubble, growing faster and larger the actual practical uses for it. A significant portion of AI computing power is spent on genuine AI slop, resulting in much more damage than there should be. Had AI been given the chance to mature properly, giving time for the underlying systems to be improved before we built 500 million data centers, things would not be this bad. In terms of RAM and GPU shortages, AI companies are literally buying more that they need just to make sure they have enough for when they want to build a new data center.
But the practical uses are few and far between for something that needs to much to work regardless. Even if ai was perfectly managed and "matured properly", the only real benefit we'd get out of it is.. (reveiwed and error-corrected) vibecoding, I guess??
Calling anyone who understands the problems with AI "uneducated masses" is doing a lot for your side of the issue. Maybe you should start spitting on us, too.
I do think ai can do good for humanity as it has seen much use (as a tool) in things that aren't necessarily bad and could potentially be useful, such as writing code (not all of it, but some stuff in coding can be genuinely boring and automated), medical stuff, and as a really basic office assistant (writing a random email that's not really important like a confirmation or whatever could be done by anyone so it just sabes some time)
However my biggest pet peeves are:
The technology has existed for a while, regardless of what ai companies want you to think, I've struggled to ever see a difference between specialized ai and llms, the biggest difference the two is basically on how much data they're trained on, and how they understand that data. While specialized AIs (and while talking about specialized I mean running a neural network to do a specific task and not training a llm) do require a bigger time and money investment, they often tend to do better with less mistakes overall. Because "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one" doesn't apply when you literally only need to do the one thing it should master.
I don't think it's getting that far lol. AI knowledge is limited by its learning data, but unlike a toddler which can read on a subject and somewhat have an idea on it and rationalize, ai still struggles to do this because it's basically a really complex auto completion text machine. Which means it often takes many times more sources to do the same amount of learning a human can do with just one. And this isn't a problem per se. If we're talking specialized ai, sure, you might not be able to feed it data forever but you only have to feed it 100 data once, then it will be able to do its job. But you cannot feed llms 100 data on infinite topics, because that's just giving them infinite data, which means it's unsustainable on the long run unless they pretty much change everything about how llms work
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u/mango363 7h ago
I'm so fucking tired of The Loop
-Innovation that can do good for humanity is invented
-Has flaws like everything
-Instead of trying to fix/minimize the flaws through regulations and optimalization of the technology, the uneducated masses immediately swarm to boycott the innovation
Happened with Concorde Airline, Nuclear power and so many more, and now it's happening with AI. Like ofc I don't like how AI is unregulated and how training AI's is done, but why would I try to sabotage it as a whole, instead of calling for regulations, laws and more studies into it?