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How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

AI Companies And Advocates Are Becoming More Cult-Like::How one writer’s trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

  • Cagi@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    Tech VCs did the same with block chain and the cloud before that. It’s an industry that loves it’s fads and fashions.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      172·
      2 years ago

      Accelerationism is “F U I’ve got AI” combined with “you’ve got to burn the world down to rebuild it, so let’s start that fire”

      Singularitarianism is basically the Christian Rapture but with super intelligent AI.

      These ideas have been around some time in tech circles.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I regularly see people on Lemmy talk about AGI run countries and governments as though it’s only a couple years away. Bruh it still struggles with fingers. You really think that’s where it will be in a couple of years?

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          2 years ago

          According to everything I read AI is either going to be godlike soon or utterly useless forever. If people can just sit down and not repeat the endless trope of “the enemy is all powerful and all weak at the same time” I would appreciate it.

          Maybe we can just try to rationally evaluate what is going on and where it is going?

  • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Rabbit could order pizza for you, telling it “the most-ordered option is fine,” leaving his choice of dinner up to the Pizza Hut website.

    I feel like we wouldn’t need the language model as a translation layer between 2 machines, if there were proper APIs everywhere…

  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    Oh I see we’ve been listening behind the bastards and Roberts rants.

    The episode was great but as usual Robert tends to just make up a lot of shit outside of the factual events.