At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.
  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s already doing that. I have to refute AI bullshit from senior leadership on a daily basis now.

    Fuck him and fuck Nvidia.

      • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Thank jebus there is somebody else in the world who sees this. I was literally playing with a modestly-large dataset Markov-chain based bot more than 25 years ago (yes in the late 90s) trained using data collected from a public chatroom (MOO) and it behaved exactly the same as these LLMs do today. A briefly convincing facsimile of a genuine conversation that quickly wandered off into utter nonsense sprinkled with occasional little nuggets of what seems like intelligence, wit or humor because we interpret it that way. It doesn’t know what the hell it’s saying. It never has.

        NONE of the fundamental flaws of the technology have been addressed. It does NOT have intelligence, it is simply a word predictor that, like a broken clock, is right twice a day, and they have just started adding layers and layers of filters on top while asking it over and over behind the scenes until they get a seemingly acceptable answer that passes all the filters. Sometimes that works well, sometimes it works really stupidly. It is random. That’s what randomness does. Given enough computations it will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, but that does not make it a replacement for Shakespeare. It is not intelligent. It is random, and it is a toy.

        The only thing it is genuinely useful for is tricking humans into briefly thinking it is intelligent and correct and being pretty surprisingly convincing (which says more about us and our brains than it does about the tech), but the illusion should break eventually (and if it doesn’t you’re in big trouble, because it is still an illusion).

        The purveyors of this technology have tricked billions of people using only those features, and gaslit anyone who sees through it as “you’re just not prompting right” or “you’re not using our latest greatest tech that contains even more stolen human-made data it can copy-paste in to look like it knows what it’s talking about” and doing this has supposedly earned them trillions of dollars but it is just a trick. There’s nothing there. The money has been stolen and passed around in circles to inflated its value. There’s nothing there.

        • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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          2 days ago

          Yeah honestly, I also hate it when it updates a couple parts of your sentence without you knowing and now you need to backspace half a paragraph just to fix it, and then it does it again…

  • Jared White ✌️ [HWC]@humansare.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The sheer degree to which all of these moguls’ ideas are utterly bankrupt and devoid of real human craft & creativity continues to be shocking to me. Like, if any random person on the street got scooped up and put in front of a microphone and said the exact same things, everyone would think they were fucking idiots. Because they somehow are billionaires and are CEOs, they’re geniuses? Spare me, please.

    • myrmidex@belgae.social
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      2 days ago

      Even more modern than good old surplus value extraction! We’ve been waiting for over 2 centuries now for these chains to be upgraded (again).

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I have come up with the idea to classify people’s position on work. Who wants to work and thinks that work is a good thing for humans, is politically right, and who doesn’t want to work is politically left. This is more natural than the definition involving the french revolution because for one, it refers to more natural concepts (work instead of Ancien Régime) and also because the liver organ (who does lots of work - metabolism) is on the right-hand side of the human body.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      and who doesn’t want to work is politically left.

      Except that I’d say I’m an anarchist, and I really enjoy working. I don’t want to enrich some fuckwit inbred wannabe god, but I find personal fulfilment in work.
      Possibly a better way to categorise people in terms of work? Those who want to work and make a shit tonne of money so they can become a fuckwit inbred wannabe god on the right, and those who want to work to better their community and life for everyone on the left.
      Also note that there’s different kinds of work. Someone who’s entire life is painting, or making poetry, or subsistence farming off grid… that’s still work…

      I’ve met more people on the right who don’t want to work than on the left. They’ll ride welfare to own the libs, cause “I’m not letting some lazy pinko commie live for free off my taxes!” Having never paid taxes…