The stories used to be about stuff that was actually at least partly true, or relevant.

"So while AI "is already doing tasks once relegated to newly minted college graduates in many professions,"

No, what you want to say is "AI is being tried out in some professions to replace new college graduates, has failed a lot so far, and will likely continue to fail for the foreseeable future. Stupid companies will lose a lot of money, and eventually, when the RECESSION is over, will go back to hiring. Some companies will see some small amount of value to AI, maybe, someday".

Slashdot. News for people pretending to be nerds.

Would be in awe of this. No more having to try to slow down trucks while a guy shoots harpoons into the passenger seat and then jump into the cab to tranquilize the driver and steal the entire truck and trailer!

I don't agree with that. LLMs are being marketed as a way to completely replace human thinking, right down to replacing doctors and therapists - professions that most certainly require a lot of critical thinking. While I would say that that is ludicrous, it also means that we need to completely disconnect AI from anything that infers 'thinking'. Because it can't. If we don't, people will continue to be deceived, (started with C-levels that are anxious to get rid of workers), and people who don't understand technology and can be deceived into thinking that LLMs really are a magic box, and will not question it's outputs.

Failing to accept that marketing is being used to deceive and manipulate, (starting with Sam Altman), and allowing LLMs to have things like 'reasoning' in their model name is a problem. No different than Musk naming his software 'Full Self Driving' when it clearly isn't.

We don't have to all agree on exactly what 'thinking' is to see the lunacy of what is happening in these tech spaces.

Altman described the design as "simple and beautiful and playful," adding that, "There was an earlier prototype that we were quite excited about, but I did not have any feeling of, "I want to pick up that thing and take a bite out of it,'

Duh. It's a sex toy.

The slide rule was at least accurate. If the future is an onslaught of garbage/worthless information, then I am out, too. Just because it's new, doesn't mean that it's better.

I am tired of asking questions to AI and getting useless results.

And within a few years, every movie will start to look and sound the same.

oh wait.....

I am not an expert in this area, but I know the basics about LLMs and underlying infrastructure. I find Generative AI to be mildly amusing at best, and LLMs are not particularly great at tasks that I am working on.

However, you'd have to have almost every working aged man and woman in the USA AND Europe to be paying for AI tools for these companies to get back their investments AND turn a profit. And for that to happen, every working aged man and woman would need to get a lot of value out of it - and that's assuming that that kind of scale doesn't cause the losses to become even larger, as from what I have read, the scaling issues associated with LLMs are currently at a place where the only way to turn a profit would be to *massively* increase prices on the current paying user base, (and possibly, dump all of the freeloaders).

And that could mean power users paying upwards of $1000/month for their LLM usage, and that would mean that a significant portion of their jobs would have to be doable with AI for there to be much savings. Enterprise users are essentially a different type of Power User - Just Much Fucking Larger. So, Enterprise customers will be paying millions a year, and that requires some Seriously Fine ROI.

The math isn't mathing.

Data Centers being built right now are not going to benefit from a tech that could still be 20+ years away from mass production. Even if those new computers were available right now, they won't be just a snap-in for these data centers, which are being built specifically around GPU architectures and GPU cooling. Data centers being constructed and used right would probably need to be all but razed to accommodate an entirely new paradigm for computing.

I don't think you'll be able to add an additional 33% of the USA's usage of power over a couple years and think that it won't end badly. And renewable power like solar would require massive grid storage since this stuff is running 24x7.

This will pop simply because the resources just aren't there, without even taking into account all of LLM's bullshit hallucinations and shit data output.

Dating apps have lost a lot of their popularity over the years. Looking at Bumble's stock price for instance, will tell you that no one even cares about 'Women make the first move' anymore. And Tinder and Hinge are well-known dumpster fires, especially for men.

This isn't 'dating' so much as it may be closer to "Hey, this is a mutual friend that just happens to be of the gender you're attracted to", which is closer to how it (at least used to), work in the real world. Can that work? Maybe. There is the benefit that neither person is likely to leave the platform if they find a match, which is a fundamental business flaw in every other dating app. FB will likely find a way to completely enshittify it, though. If it becomes big enough, FB will just start adding AI 'people' into there as well, and you'll be back to a basic problem that exists on all of the other apps.

The IT industry has jumped the shark. We're hiring expensive people to put in thousands of prompts on thousands of video clips to use hundreds of thousands of servers to produce slop shit that could have been done with a small group of reasonably priced animators using regular old computer hardware that doesn't cost a billion dollars a month to run.

Apples to Oranges. When you call to schedule an oil change, that *is* something that can be handled by a bot...or a web form.

Very different than having to deal with SF because an api call that you're writing code for won't work right and you have a deadline looming to get data out and processed through yet another complex procedure that then needs to talk to another api to get the data properly back into SF.

I have been reading about how our power grid, freshwater, and basically...money, is all being pissed away so we can have more of this shit-slop thrown at us.

When will the AI bubble finally pop so this goes away?

One of the ads that I see often is of a college kid wanting to get candy out of a vending machine...he borrows a bunch of money from one of these apps, and then is feeding benjamins into the vending machine and then gorging himself on a pile of candy and junk food. Although, the commercial is light on how using the app suddenly presented him with a stack of twenties to use at the machine...

Now, if he's really that poor, he can spend 3 years paying it back at 500% interest.

This is the problem with AI and other fad technologies. Eventually, everyone is running towards the cliff, all screaming that they're going to get there first and therefore, that makes them awesome.