The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
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@mattblaze who also bear striking similarity to the you’ll soon be doing everything in the metaverse people
@mattblaze not everything, no. but I can not deny it has influenced quite a bit already.
it’s still very young. however I am waiting for the moment the charges going up to cover the costs. And if it’s still affordable or “interesting”. We will see.
@mattblaze AI is real deal, it really changes everything
Somewhere out there, there is a screenshot of one of the most prophetic tweets I ever saw (and I really wish I could find it!) describing how the arc of grift stated with cryptocurrency, bent through NFTs and Al and ends in quantum computing.
It's glorious.
@mattblaze At least with the tulip craze you got pretty flowers out of the deal.
@mattblaze A practical way to separate use from hype is a small before-and-after test on one real task: same input, same quality bar, and time measured including checking and corrections. If the result improves, keep that use. If it only makes a prettier demo, that is useful to know too.
@mattblaze I want you to be correct. But my life for one has already been affected much more by "AI" than by the crypto scam 🫤🤬
@mattblaze I want to see AI also do my ironing, not just draw fancy pics or summarize the internet.
@mattblaze tech used to be exciting.. DirectX 7 with Nvidia Riva TNT2 etc.
Now it is boring and unaffordable.
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As a first step to AGI I'm often incorrectly hailed
I make a lot of money for some men whose blockchain projects failed
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@mattblaze this venn diagram is a perfect circle.
@mattblaze I'm sure your post is going to be incredibly popular on Mastodon, but here's the key difference, I think:
AI can be useful to me in my own home without depending on any valuation, inflated or otherwise, from any outsider.
It helped me improve my code, for my own use and not for distribution.
@buckfiftyseven No one said AI techniques aren't useful for some things. The field has been around for over 50 years. The problem is people who don't understand what it does and doesn't do falling into a cult-like hype cycle.
@mattblaze People are all over the map, aren't they?
It's just like the way the Segway completely changed the way cities work.
@mattblaze funny you should say that, that kinda all went into e-scooters, and rental e-scooters have absolutely had an impact on cities
@navi it seems like scooters had a modest impact, probably mostly offsetting personally owned bicycles. I don’t think they’ve come anywhere close to “changing how cities work” (the supposed promise of the segway). A thing can be successful without being “revolutionary”.
I think one can argue rental e-bikes are changing the way London works. A grester impact in two/three years than standard bikes have made in the last 20/30 years.
Especially amongst the young.
The crucial changd, if if happens, is to car ownership. Already I think less than 50% in inner London concentrated in low income groups (78%) who primarily use puic transport - bus fares are just £1.75. Rental e-bikes are not cheap so are additionally helping make car ownership an option amongst young professionals.
Hence they may be the tipping point to car ownership being reduced to a small minority in inner London. Wifh the transformation of road infrastructure to reflect demand pushing it harder in a virtuous circle.
.Importantly it is looking like a generational change to the blight that was cars in London.
@mattblaze that's mostly cos it's literally the same actual people
(hence our crypto blog turring to an AI blog is "Pivot to AI")