In the long run you’d imagine that GPUs will become more affordable once these massive datacenters have been built. At that point it becomes far more profitable to run your own hardware. Especially if these AI companies need to increase their subscription prices by x10 to finance all this debt they’ve taken on.
Yeah AI is here to stay but these “founder” companies sure aren’t.
Yeah but that’s art. Code is very much a means to an end. Code can be artistic i suppose but it does actually have to do something at the end of the day. And if it works it works.
Here’s a better chart with data until 2024. China really does need to start reducing their emissions soon or they’re gonna fuck us all.
Mate, i have no idea what you want from me. Do you actually have a point, or are we just gonna say nothing to each other?
Dude, you have some serious issues. Get a grip.
Is this negging?
Yes people absolutely believe it. People believe in lots of stupid shit. CEOs are paid to manipulate people who think they’re smart into believing whatever makes the company the most money.
Power sells. Rogue AI is seen as powerful. AGI is seen as powerful. Even if both are sci-fi nonense not actually backed by anything in our current reality, that doesn’t stop wealthy power hungry individuals from taking the bet.
People are absolutely dumb enough to believe this shit. Based on the state of the world currently, i’m worried it’s the majority.
Yeah but surely those studies were measuring second hand smoke from sharing a home with a smoker. That amount of exposure will certainly cause harm.
Breathing a fraction of one draw in passing isn’t gonna cause anything.
Spot on. It feels like people are more tribal on Lemmy. Just look at the downvotes on the comment you replied. Straight facts but downvoted cuz .ml
Disappointing to say the least. But maybe this is natural due to the way instances work. Kind of separates us into teams by default.
I don’t care what instance you’re from. Use your brain. Don’t believe anything without actual evidence. This is war. Always be skeptical.
I do agree. It’s a pretty shit tool because you can’t trust it, it makes mistakes, and you’re not in complete control of what it does.
And yeah maybe it’s more like a service when you’re using it for ready-made stuff.
I think it depends on use case and intent. Calling it a tool is perfectly valid in some cases. For others it acts more like a torment nexus.
But can a torment nexus be used as a tool? Probably, but that’s supervillian shit lol
I can see where you’re coming from. But for me, randomness in the output doesn’t affect whether i call something a tool or not.
From the Cambridge Dictionary:
Tool - something that helps you to do a particular activity.
I use LLMs to help me code at work. Maybe you can use an LLM in a different way where it’s not longer a tool but it definitely can be called a tool!
Why not? To me that’s just what the tool does.
You can chop off your arm with a chainsaw.
Tools don’t have to be safe. They don’t have to protect you from mistakes.
Why is an LLM not a tool?
But even if you configure a 3D printer properly there’s still a chance the output will be flawed.
Just because you can’t trust the output doesn’t mean it’s not a tool. If you expect it to do exactly what you want you’re using the tool wrong.
You use the LLM to help you build the system that does exactly what you want every time. LLMs are just a tool to help you get there.
Yeah completely agree with that but i don’t see how capitalism can stop open source. Capitalism runs on open source!
Of course, an LLM is a probability machine which outputs the most likely next token based on the tokens you give it.
I’m not sure why that doesn’t make it a tool though. The output of this probability machine can be useful if you know what you’re doing.
Yeah i agree with most of that but you are in control of what you do with the output. If the output is full of mistakes you don’t notice, that’s on you and you have used the tool poorly.
Blindly trusting the output of an LLM is not using the tool properly.
I’m seeing a lot of people saying things but no evidence.
The BBC has debunked the claims in this article.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko
Misinformation can come from anywhere.
The article says that the graphs in your link are false. I’m going to trust the BBC over The London Economic. So should you. Until actual evidence comes out that Russain bot activity went down, stop spreading misinformation.
Definitely agree with a lot of that. Indeed in this era of abundance why do we need to squeeze more and more out of everything.
However computing has been one of the most valuable inventions of all time. A script is usually written to automate a process. If the script doesn’t work, it’s useless. Not all disciplines are the same. The value of the code is what it does.
You can certainly talk about the horrors of AI under capitalism but i don’t think open source developers should have to think about it. I’d rather they make software better for everyone than get tied up thinking about how to solve the impossible.