It is no more different with the gold rushes to California, Oregon, and Alaska, where the real winners are the merchants selling pickaxes and work overalls.
It’s different in so far as we didn’t invest a trillion dollars in giant strip mines that destroyed these states.
Pre roasted coffee took off at this time.
Well if you have a better way to generate Jurassic Park “but everyone’s fat” videos I’d love to hear it.
Jurassic Pork
Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I’m all ears.
Yeah no shit Sherlock. AI chat bots are just a way to market and sell a dystopian surveillance apparatus to the masses wrapped in the guise of it will right your bullshit corporate emails and messages for you all the while the government and the corporations are fucking you in the ass.
It was a barely functional technology that provides convenience and laziness well hiding it’s true purpose, Machine learning algorithms for facial recognition license prints tracking making it efficient and relatively economical to spy on and control an entire population.
what makes you think advances in LLMs have anything to do with ML for Computer vision? If you wanted the latter, you would’ve gotten that way cheaper than by training on reddit text.
12 upvotes for this thin conspiracy theory, congrats Lemmy.
If you think those datacenters being built are for LLMs only, I have a bridge to sell you.
ML and LLMs both need massive compute to work with the data sets involved.
We are repeating an old pattern in computing: throw more hardware at the problem until efficiency becomes impossible to ignore. Bigger models have delivered remarkable gains, but they’re increasingly expensive. The next breakthroughs may come less from adding parameters and more from smarter architectures, better algorithms and more efficient inference.
That’s literally exactly what Chinese researchers are doing at DeepSeek and they’ve built frontier models with that philosophy
Here here! well said!
Many dystopian science fiction books have already become reality. Look at “Enemy of the State” for example.
Heck, back in like what 1971? Enders game predicted the whole internet Influencer concept.
If only the mainstream media would have said this since 2023. We maybe even have dodged the bullet called the Trump second term, but now we’re heading towards a global financial collapse.
paywall removed: https://archive.ph/J3VLi
Now I can read the Atlantic for free while also DDOSing people. The future is now.
I think ive missed a reference, how does that link contribute to ddosing?
