A.I. Bubble

[VinsCool]

If this were actual Artificial Intelligence and not an overgrown Markov Chain I would be more enthusiastic about "AI".
For the time being it's mostly made of bits and pieces of information scattered over the internet, and more infuriating about that being that it's essentially built to just "borrow" from everything it could find, which is at best likely to plagiarise artists or authors. or worse vomit up made up halucinations/hoaxes and/or artworks in the style of whoever it was trained to "borrow" from, so obviously I just hope the bubble bursts until true Articifical Intelligence rises to being a thing to the point it becomes truly sentient.

 

[Skv0ra]

It'll reshape society, once we have general AI then we'll be forced to implement universal basic income just so society doesn't collapse. But also the AI will be able to make good use of certain people and help them generate more money on top of their UBI, corporations will end up making more money than ever before. And not just money, but power because why wouldn't anyone be loyal to a company that is making them rich in exchange for letting a real AI they control run your life for you.

Except the reality will actually end up being like plethora of dystopian sci-fi flicks with utter slums everywhere and new "entry" level reqs for any job will be ability to fix AI bro bots on an engineering level, know at least 5 coding languages to fix slop, and be perfectly OK living in a dorm with like 10 others in a NY apartment of a place. Govt barely cares about the people already, so what makes you think that notion will level out when supply of unskilled labor exceedingly outweighs the demand? Militia stuff is out the window too, since govt owns military and no band of civilians will ever really match the military's strength.

So as a matter of fact, BEWARE that the sexbot days never really happen because that will absolutely be the beginning of Skynet and hard capitalism.

 

[TVL]

It very much seems like a bubble to me, where is the money coming from? Are you paying for AI? It's just all these companies circle investing in one another isn't it?

I might just be a moron not knowing what's going on though, I used AI for about three days when it was merged into my programming IDE... After some terrible refactoring attempts I just felt I had no use for it, wow you can solve the most rudimentary code creation imaginable that I can just add to a button on an MMO mouse and paste and give me shit code, often times not complete when refactoring... I might have given up early though. Maybe it's much better now.


I get AI answers when I Google anything, I don't pay for the service or the electricity wasted though. You could probably replace a lot of it with a database for frequent questions instead of generating it everytime, but whatever.

A bubble doesn't mean there isn't any use for it, dot.com bubble, housing market bubble... Those things still exist after the bubble burst, it's just that it wasn't built on an economical viable reality at the time... I don't think it is, but I think the same thing about certain companies, and they go from strength to strength on the stock exchange, I just don't keep up with it any longer, if the world falls apart I'll be aware, no need to check what happens day to day... I just don't get it, everything is a pyramid scheme (ponzi scheme you Yanks call it?), even real economy with fiat currency seems to me to be a pyramid scheme. And we should try to alter realty to fit the economic system instead of the other way around..?

I don't know much, but I know there will be no AGI within the lifetime of anyone reading this post.. Quote me if I'm wrong within the next 100 years.

 

[Skv0ra]

I get AI answers when I Google anything, I don't pay for the service or the electricity wasted though. You could probably replace a lot of it with a database for frequent questions instead of generating it everytime, but whatever.

Lmao, have you checked your electricity bill lately? It's trickling into there, best believe.
Now, the answers it pulls are seldom proven, and RELIABLE damn sources and you get contradicting answers to most questions that aren't the absolute knowledge floor of 2020-5, since it scours shit like reddit for "best" assumed answer to more specific questions.

A bubble doesn't mean there isn't any use for it, dot.com bubble, housing market bubble... Those things still exist after the bubble burst, it's just that it wasn't built on an economical viable reality at the time... I don't think it is, but I think the same thing about certain companies, and they go from strength to strength on the stock exchange, I just don't keep up with it any longer, if the world falls apart I'll be aware, no need to check what happens day to day... I just don't get it, everything is a pyramid scheme (ponzi scheme you Yanks call it?), even real economy with fiat currency seems to me to be a pyramid scheme. And we should try to alter realty to fit the economic system instead of the other way around..?

I don't know much, but I know there will be no AGI within the lifetime of anyone reading this post.. Quote me if I'm wrong within the next 100 years.

Bubble is just hype, financial or cultural. Then things either integrate smoothly like Android or fade into obscurity like NGage. What will most likely and sadly stay, are deep fakes and fake videos that masses will get accustomed to believing to be real and then misinformation pushing agendas will become a behemoth like never before.

 

[Magnus87]

Every situation is different, even if it has one or two similar characteristics. Calling it a "bubble" simply because you're eager for it all to burst seems a bit of an exaggeration.

My only concern is how the RAM shortage will affect other tech products. I understand the need for more memory, but there's a difference between buying RAM and hoarding it so others can't get any.

 

[The Catboy]

I just hope when it bursts, we stop seeing so much AI slop. So tired of AI slop and people thinking they actually "made" something.

 

[hippy dave]

Every situation is different, even if it has one or two similar characteristics. Calling it a "bubble" simply because you're eager for it all to burst seems a bit of an exaggeration.

My only concern is how the RAM shortage will affect other tech products. I understand the need for more memory, but there's a difference between buying RAM and hoarding it so others can't get any.

Every company jumping on it and cramming it into every app and use case they can think of, because the shareholders believe it's the current big thing and don't want to miss out, absolutely is a bubble.

 

[Flame]

Every situation is different, even if it has one or two similar characteristics. Calling it a "bubble" simply because you're eager for it all to burst seems a bit of an exaggeration.

My only concern is how the RAM shortage will affect other tech products. I understand the need for more memory, but there's a difference between buying RAM and hoarding it so others can't get any.

So you okay for AI to happen at any cost. But worried about your tech products because it effects you.

But who cares about the loss of jobs, livelihood or the environment.

 

[Magnus87]

But who cares about the loss of jobs, livelihood or the environment.

Do you know what these images are?

The first is a pulley. Do you know how it works? That little technological device took jobs away from hundreds of people because you didn't need to exert so much brute force to move something.

The second is the amount of energy a computer used to take up and consume. Today, you have one 10,000 times more powerful in your pocket.


We are in a new technological era, whether you like it or not.

 

[DragonMals]

THIS BUBBLE NEEDS TO POP. NOW. OR ELSE I'LL GET IN CONTROL OF THINGS.