But for that brief moment, we all got to laugh at it because it said to put glue on pizza.
All worth it!
The problem isn't the rise of "AI" but more so how we're using it.
If a company wants to create a machine learning model that analyzes metrics on an automated production line and spits out parameters to improve the efficiency of their equipment, that's a great use of the technology. We don't need a LLM to produce a useless summary of what it thinks is a question when all I want is a page of search results.
There's literally no point.
Like, humans aren't really the "smartest" animals. We're just the best at language and tool use. Other animals routinely demolish us in everythig else measured on an IQ test.
Pigeons get a bad rap at being stupid, but their brains are just different than ours. Their image and pattern recognition is so insane, they can recognize words they've never seen aren't gibberish just by letter structure.
We weren't even trying to get them to do it. They were just introducing new words and expected the pigeons to have to learn, but they could already tell despite never seeing that word before.
Why the hell are we jumping straight to human consciousness as a goal when we don't even know what human consciousness is? It's like picking up Elden Ring on whatever the final boss is for your very first time playing the game. Maybe you'll eventually beat it. But why wouldn't you just start from the beginning and work your way up as the game gets harder?
We should at least start with pigeons and get an artificial pigeon and work our way up.
Like, that old reddit repost about pigeon guided bombs, that wasn't a hail Mary, it was incredibly effective.
Who's jumping to human consciousness as a goal? LLMs aren't human consciousness. The original post is demagoguery, but it's not misrepresenting the mechanics. Chatbots already have more to do with your pigeons than with human consciousness.
I hate that the stupidity about AGI some of these techbros are spouting is being taken at face value by critics of the tech.
Pigeons get a bad rap at being stupid
Do they? I guess I haven't encountered that much. I think about messenger pigeons in wars and such...
Disgusting? Sure, I've heard that a lot. But I haven't heard 'stupid' really as a word to describe pigeons.
Anyway, I don't disagree with you otherwise. My dogs are super stupid in my perception but I know which one of us would be better at following a trail after someone had left the scene. (Okay, maybe Charlie would still be too stupid to do that one, but Ghost could do it).
Something that blows my mind about dogs is that their sense of smell is so good that, when combined with routine, they use it to track time i.e. if their human leaves the house for 8 hours most days to go to work, the dog will be able to discern the difference between "human's smell 7 hours after they left" and "human's smell 8 hours after they left", and learn that the latter means their human should be home soon. How awesome is that?!
You might like the scifi youtuber Isaac Arthur. He has a huge library, but a number of episodes that talk about intelligence.
On the grand scheme of things, I suspect we actually don't have that much power in stopping the industrial machine.
Even if every person on here, on Reddit, and every left-leaning social media revolted against the powers that be right now, we wouldn't resolve anything. Not really. They'd send the military out, shoot us down (possibly quite literally), then go back to business as usual.
Unless there becomes a business incentive to change our ways, then capitalism will not follow, and instead it'll do everything it can to resist that change. By the time there is enough economic inventive, it'll be far too late to be worth fixing.
I mean, this isn't just a social media thing. It was part of the reason there was a writer's strike in Hollywood and they did manage to accomplish something. I don't see why protests/strikes/politics would be useless here.
You're right, but I was making a point, as social media is most often where you hear people calling for revolution.
I'll agree that strikes can work, especially employment strikes - but that's usually because there's a specific, private entity to target, an employer to back into the metaphorical corner.
As far as protesting/striking against the system, you need only look at the strikes and protests relating Palestine to know what kind of force such a revolutionary strike would be met with.
A lot of people on Lemmy are expecting the glorious revolution to happen any time now and then we will live in whatever utopia they believe makes a utopia. Even if something like that happens, and I'm less certain by the day that it ever will, the result isn't necessarily any better than what came before. And often worse.
Well, certanly not with that attitude
See, the thing is, dead people don't buy as many things as live ones, so extreme capitalism doesn't want to kill you directly either. Slow poison is fine if profitable enough, but fast intentional bullet to their main customer base - not as much.
So 2+2 = boobs?
2+2 = ancap hidden folder
Oh if my math class was like that...
Just turn the calculator upside down…
I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst
Is not the entire picture, we are destroying our planet to generate bad art, fake tities and search a little bit faster but with the same chance of being entirely wrong as just googleing it.
Is it actually a little bit faster though?
Only because Google purposely crippled itself...
I mean, it also made the first image of a black hole, so there's that part.
I'd also flag that you shouldn't use one of these to do basic sums, but in fairness the corporate shills are so desperate to find a sellable application that they've been pushing that sort of use super hard, so on that one I blame them.
No. Once it has identified it as a math problem a different part of the code is called.
Fucking morons with Twatter accounts
Now it's being given the system prompt "you can use the command MATH for mathematical questions, and SEARCH to look up up-to-date information from the internet".
Hmm. Too reliable. Let's make sure it fucks up and forgets its functionalities every so often
Now what is being given?
Global warmings been happening well before AI was a thing.
Right, but AI is a step away from a solution due to outrageous energy costs.
If we fix our energy problems, then it makes more sense to harvest the entirety of human knowledge and creativity to try make the line go up.
Here's some research on how much energy various machine learning models use.
In 2021, Google’s total electricity consumption was 18.3 TWh, with AI accounting for 10%–15% of this total.
Let's call it 10% to make it seem as energy-efficient as possible. That's 1.83 TWh a year, or about 5 GWh a day. An average US home uses 10.5 MWh a year. You could power 476 US homes for a year, and still have some energy left over, with the amount of energy Google uses on their AI-powered search in a single day.
But then the problem is how google uses AI, not AI itself. I can have an LLM running locally not consuming crazy amounts of energy for my own purposes.
So blaming AI is absurd, we should blame OpenAI, Google, Amazon... This whole hatred for AI is absurd when it's not the real source of the problem. We should concentrate on blaming and ideally punishing companies for this kind of use (abuse more like) of energy. Energy usage also is not an issue in itself, as long as we use adequate energy sources. If companies start deploying huge solar panel fields on top of their buildings and parkings and whatnot to cover part of the energy use we could all end up better than before even.
