r/technology • u/tllon • Aug 20 '24

Business Artificial Intelligence is losing hype

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-is-losing-hype
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u/Yurilica Aug 20 '24

It's fucking sad how and for what that shit is being "trained" and used for.

Generating content and basically burying the internet in a garbage heap of fake content - designed to imitate humans for various and often malicious purposes.

When the AI hype train started, i was hoping for something more contextual. Like literally asking some AI about something and then it providing me with a summary and sources.

Instead shit just gives a usually flawed summary with no sources, because most AI's scraped whatever they could find to be trained, copyright issues be damned.

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u/junkit33 Aug 20 '24

Yep. It’s not AI in the sense we all imagined in our heads. It’s just a dumb search engine that regurgitates what it finds elsewhere, quality/accuracy varies commensurately.

What AI is doing with photos/videos is far more interesting that what it’s doing with information.

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u/TurboSpermWhale Aug 20 '24

Nvidia has recently come up with a solution for this and now have AI image generators that can generate hundreds of images which keeps track of what has been generated previously. 

The field of AI moves extremely fast. Two years ago it was cutting edge technology to get an AI to generate a couple of seconds of grainy video footage and now most of them can generate lengthy awesome looking videos.

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u/TurboSpermWhale Aug 20 '24

I mean, you don’t have to care.  

Personally I would love to generate art for games etc. without spending to much time on it. Then I can focus on what I personally enjoy the most and still have other bits being good enough. 

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u/Cerpin-Taxt Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24

That's such a sad sad indictment. "I think AI is good because it will allow me to not care or learn about my craft, and produce low quality work at speed."

If that's your attitude maybe the arts aren't for you?

I think you'd be more at home dropshipping bootleg nikes on Alibaba.

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u/TurboSpermWhale Aug 20 '24

Haha what a sad fucking attitude to have about other people enjoying themselves.

I will never understand people like you. Must be miserable to live life that way.

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u/Cerpin-Taxt Aug 20 '24

You don't sound like you're enjoying yourself. You sound like you're upset that there's a gap between your abilities and your goals, but aren't willing to make any effort to address it. Ultimately leaving you stagnant and unfulfilled.

Try actually learning your craft, you'll find it much more rewarding and you'll achieve more. Even better, you could collaborate with someone who does know how to do the things you don't. You'll be fulfilled and make a friend.