• atoro@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    A lot of people in the comments conflating “AI bubble burst” with “AI has disappeared completely”, and saying it’s not happening because AI still exists there.

    When the dot com bust happened, the internet didn’t just disappear overnight, it just shrunk into something more reasonable. I feel like this is the same.

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      11 days ago

      Same vibe as “if global warming is real how come it was cold at my house this morning?”

      AI/LLMs will still be around, they just wont be the end all be all some people have been hyping it as

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      11 days ago

      The internet now is bigger than the internet pre dot com burst, though, right?

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    12 days ago

    I mean, this isn’t true from my perspective. All the Chinese LLM labs are still developing full steam ahead. Model/architectures are getting updated so quickly it’s a meme amongst inference framework devs, because they can’t even support one model before the next one is already out.

    …They’ve always been thrifty, though. The difference is they don’t need a trillion dollar bubble to fund their modest, more sustainable dev/inference costs.

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    12 days ago

    Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months

    Not as catching as “bubble burst”. LLMs have proven their use. It’s here to stay. There’s a lot of superfluous stuff, but people are coping if they think the bubble is going to burst and their jobs will all go back to how the were.

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      12 days ago

      What use AI has doesn’t matter if it’s untenable to continue to operate long term. Whether or not AI is here to stay is entirely reliant on its ability to turn a profit.

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      11 days ago

      What’s up. I’m a carpenter. My job has been unchanged by LLMs and will continue to be unchanged by LLMs.

      They seem to have certain applications in research and computer science and IMO that’s it. For generating pictures, sounds, text, or any “customer service” application… it seems pretty worthless to me. But I’ve never checked it out personally because it’s always seemed like a giant waste of time to me. There has never been a feature of AI that made me be like “okay dang I would actually use that.”

      Even the company that ran AI hentai waifus went out of business, and that’s like, one of the better applications I can think of.