AI got tons of money from investors they will eventually want ROI… this why they are trying to force it down our throats

I really love your analogy. I'm imagining early 90s Windows and AOL bombarding folks with pop ups that say 'want to take this with you? Print it!' and 'Did you know you can print anytime you like with our new dedicated keyboard print button?' and 'Try our new cassette music player, now printer-powered to give you the best sound you've ever heard!'

Those trying to sell it are trying to figure out where it's most useful. In one way, I think it's an amazing technology, and I also wonder how it can be best used. However, I can't stand it being pushed on me, and I wish I could easily say no. Acrobat Reader is particularly unbearable with it. Trying to describe a drawing?? Ughhh. Waste of space and energy like nothing else.

Dealers give drugs for free until you're hooked...

I think that it's an astute observation. AI wouldn't need to be hyped by those running AI companies if the value was self-evident. Personally I've yet to see any use beyond an advanced version of Clippy.

Long ago, I'd make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I'd never have to actually click on the links.

Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn't see them in the previews and you'd have to give them traffic.

Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.

Make it stop!

This was exactly my thought when MS finally decided to force Copilot to be licensed. They have literally inserted it into every nook and cranny they can so far and the only conclusion I can come to is that they royally f'ed up. Like they invested so much in it and likely aren't seeing anything profitable. In a way, it satisfies me to see them act so desperate for something so futile but I don't want it to continue. It's clear what damages they have caused and it's not worth it.

Most things are nothing more than smoke and mirrors to get your money. Tech especially. Welcome to end stage capitalism.

Warning : I think AI in the current hype form, so commercial GenAI and LLM, is absolutely bullshit. The result is just bad and resources required is absolutely ridiculous, and maybe worst than those two combined (which is already enough to want to reject en masse) it is structured in order to create dependencies on very few actors.

Yet... (you saw that coming!) it's not because 99.99% is bad that suddenly the average consumer leverages the less than .01% left properly.

What they (OpenAI, Claude, M$, NVIDIA, Google, Meta, etc) are looking for is a product/market fit. They do have a product (arguable) and a market (millions if not billions of users of their different other products) with even a minuscule fraction of people trying to use their new AI-based tool... and yet nobody actually knows what the "killer app" truly is.

They are investing everything they don't spend on actual R&D or infrastructure in finding out ... what it's actually for. They have no clue.

To be fair, the internet was fucking everywhere once the dotcom bubble kicked off. Everyone had a website, and even my mum was like "Don't bother your dad, he's on the internet" like it was this massive thing.

I was reading a book the other day, a science fiction book from 2002 (Kiln People), and the main character is a detective. At one point, he asks his house AI to call the law enforcement lieutenant at 2 am. His AI warns him that he will likely be sleeping and won't enjoy being woken. The mc insists, and the AI says ok, but I will have to negotiate with his house AI about the urgency of the matter.

Imagine that. Someone calls you at 2 am, and instead of you being woken by the ringing or not answering because the phone was on mute, the AI actually does something useful and tries to determine if the matter is important enough to wake you.

Like my parent's Amazon Echo with "Ask me what famous person was born this day."

Like, if you know that, just put it up on the screen. But the assistant doesn't work for you. Amazon just wants your voice to train their software.

My top reasons I have no interest in ai:

• if it was great, it wouldn’t be pushed on us (like 3D TVs were)
• there is no accountability, so how can it be trusted without human verification which then means ai wasn’t needed
• environmental impact
• privacy/security degradation

AI has become a self-enfeeblement tool.

I am aware that most people are not analytically minded, and I know most people don't lust for knowledge. I also know that people generally don't want their wrong ideas corrected by a person, because it provokes negative feelings of self worth, but they're happy being told self-satisfying lies by AI.

To me it is the ultimate gamble with one's own thought autonomy, and an abandonment of truth in favor of false comfort.

It's crammed for awareness so shareholders know.

That's my take.

Because right now, the general populace thinks AI is some unicorn magic that will fix all the things.

LLMs are a really cool toy, I would lose my shit over them if they weren't a catalyst for the whole of western society having an oopsie economic crash moment.

If AI truly was the next frontier, we wouldn’t be staring at the start of another depression (or a bad recession). There would be a revolution of innovations and most people’s lives would improve.

This is some amazing insight. 100% correct. This is an investment scam, likely an investment bubble that will pop if too many realize the truth.

AI at this stage is basically just an overrefined search engine, but companies are selling it like its JARVIS from Iron Man.

Most obviously OpenAI is still burning money like crazy and they also start offering porn AI as everyone else. 🤷‍♂️ Sometimes the current AI is useful, but as long as the hallucinations and plain wrong answers are still a thing I don’t see it eliminating all jobs.

It’s unfortunate that they destroy the text and video part of the internet on the way. Text was mostly broken before, but now images and videos are also untrustworthy and will be used for spam and misinformation.

I've been wondering about a similar thing recently - if AI is this big, life-changing thing, why were there so little rumblings among tech-savy people before it became "mainstream"? Sure, Machine Learning was somewhat talked about, but very little of it seemed to relate to LLM-style Machine learning. With basically all other innovations technology, the nerds tended to have it years before everyone else, so why was it so different with AI?

Had the exact same thought. If it was revolutionary and innovative we would be praising it and actual tech people would love it.

Guess who actually loves it? Authoritarians and corporations. Yay.

I have found one use for it: getting information from behind login/paywalls.

It still feels gross to use AI at all though. It's like putting my hand in toilet water.

The market flooding is a classic silicon valley strategy of free today charge tomorrow except they're over invested in this one financially, in global supply for GPUs, and land with viable power infrastructure.