Yes, to solve a medical issue or to genuinely improve my existence.
But if we’re talking about something really advanced with software in it I need open source. I’ve already read real news articles about ocular implants where the company that supports them went out of business. Second Sight Medical Products.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to have an implant in my body that’s been bricked due to some corporate bullshit.
I mean yeah, you’re right. Guess you missed the point…
There’s a lot of people in here who don’t know about open weight models that can run on an old 7900XTX.
The data center part of LLMs is how they’re going to try to make money off of LLMs. The technology to use it for nefarious uses is already loose in the world.
My gut tells me that the recent “scary AI” news coming from the AI companies is actually somewhere in-between altruistic intent and pure evil greed; I just don’t have enough information to grasp the real motivation.
So we’re still at the argument that they weren’t able to impress the world with how awesome their technology is, so instead they’re going to try to scare the trillions of dollars out of us so they can cover the trillions they’re spending.
That’s fine and I see that, but it’s easy to handwave away things with unproven conspiracy theories.
What are the other possibilities? If we take all the negative news coming out of the AI sector at face value, what could the less conspiracy theory based explanations be?
Let’s assume that this is real. Forget all the PR, conspiracy, tech bros trying to scare us into more money BS.
Why did they do this test and publish it? What do they want us to do about it? If you’re afraid of your own technology, then stop it. Just fucking stop doing the thing.
“you’re in a marathon, not a sprint. Slow down or you’ll burn yourself out.”
Entropy is some god damned bullshit.
I had no idea how bad entropy was until I was an adult. I can’t be happy just relaxing because of the knowledge that everything around me is fucking falling apart and I have to spend every waking hour fighting the entropy around me. You can’t just live in a house or condo or apartment, it’s constantly crumbling.
It’s not always going to be like this. I genuinely think the AI bubble is going to pop and the whole way AI is viewed will change.
I was there for the dotcom bubble. When it popped the Internet didn’t go away, it just settled into the tool it was designed to be.
LLMs won’t be uninvented… they’ll just become tools.