• watduhdamhell@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    We went from “AI? Lol” to “this AI is better than 70% of all humans at anything, and you wouldn’t even know it was an AI if you spoke to it” (ChatGPT4/premium) in about 5 years.

    And you think self driving is “far away?”

    Curious indeed how you’re so certain. It always boggles my mind how cocksure all of the “no one wants a $600 phone” types are. And the weird thing is, they are always wrong.

    • tankmode@alien.topB
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      11 months ago

      never doubted the iphone for a second but have had the same view on self-driving since 2016 (and been right the whole time btw). the SDC hype machine meanwhile has been saying “1 more year” for pretty much a decade whild burning many $Billions a year.

      ChatGPT is nice step forward but it is expensive and error prone, its only useful as a productivity enchancer in time consuming but low stakes content work like SEO blogging or Graphics arts. There’s a massive cognitive dissonance between the tech companies shuttering massive development operations for Alexa & Google Home (because theyre shit and dont make any money) while at the same time pumping ChatGPT. What ChatGPT is actually best at is convincing $Billions worth of Venture Capital and Fortune500 IT buyers that they need buy millions of dollars of GPU time from Cloud Providers. That cycle will play out for a couple years before people realize the commercialization opportunities are fairly limited.

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        11 months ago

        You don’t have a clue what you are talking about. I watched the recent Microsoft Ignite event on what they are rolling out AI wise and it’s pretty incredible. You have no idea how much it has improved software development in making us way more productive. Now we are being given the tools to take our own data and use their LLMs to create our own Microsoft Teams or O365 AI bots. I can think of a ton of uses for it already. Also we are already using AI to analyze and predict a lot of client to company interaction. And we are a nothing small business.

        You really are talking without knowledge if you think the commercialization opportunities aren’t there.