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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh... "Robin Li says increased accuracy is one of the largest improvements we've seen in Artificial Intelligence. "I think over the past 18 months, that problem has pretty much been solved—meaning when you talk to a chatbot, a frontier model-based chatbot, you can basically trust the answer," the CEO added."

That's plain wrong. Even STOA black box chatbots give wrong answer to the simplest of questions sometimes. That's precisely what NOT being able to trust mean.

How can one believe anything this person is saying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

To trust a computer it has to be correct 100% of the time, because it can't say "I don't know".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It will probably burst, but that does not man that AI will go away completly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Same thing happened to the Dot Com bubble. The fundamental technology has valid uses, but we're in the stage where some people are convinced it can be used for literally anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It will burst because no one is going to pay subscription fee for every AI gizmo every app puts in your phone. The way they make any money now is just funneling more and more vc money in exchange of AGI promise (coming soon)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The AI bubble might be the 2020s' dotcom bubble.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Crossing fingers it bursts soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same here. And speaking of bubbles I haven't seen anything about NFTs in quite a while. I don't think that bubble burst tho, it just sort of shriveled up and blew away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's a lead bubble

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you're invested in these stocks, make sure you have your stop loss orders in place, 100%.

I imagine the bubble bursting will be quick and deadly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What are the AI rising stocks?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Set stop loss at 100%, got it 👍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Just to b sure, I'm going to set mine at 200%, to be double sure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, AI is really just a surveillance tool than anything else.

When AI "creates" something, it's just pulling up things related to words you typed in and making an amalgamation of what you typed in out of what it has.

The real purpose is for corporations and governments to look through people's devices and online storage at super speed.

this is why you all need to be using end-to-end encrypted storage for everything and VPNs with perfect forward secrecy

do your own research into the history of each provider of those things before you buy it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is so much wrong with this...

AI is a range of technologies. So yes, you can make surveillance with it, just like you can with a computer program like a virus. But obviously not all computer programs are viruses nor exist for surveillance. What a weird generalization. AI is used extensively in medical research, so your life might literally be saved by it one day.

You're most likely talking about "Chat Control", which is a controversial EU proposal to scan either on people's devices or from provider's ends for dangerous and illegal content like CSAM. This is obviously a dystopian way to achieve that as it sacrifices literally everyone's privacy to do it, and there is plenty to be said about that without randomly dragging AI into that. You can do this scanning without AI as well, and it doesn't change anything about how dystopian it would be.

You should be using end to end regardless, and a VPN is a good investment for making your traffic harder to discern, but if Chat Control is passed to operate on the device level you are kind of boned without circumventing this software, which would potentially be outlawed or made very difficult. It's clear on it's own that Chat Control is a bad thing, you don't need some kind of conspiracy theory about 'the true purpose of AI' to see that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

They couldn’t keep their heads on fucking straight during the .com bubble, and here they are doing it all over again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago
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