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.
@mattblaze @stuart @navi It's somewhere in the middle, I suppose. London has far more and better bike lanes today than they did 20 years ago. And they're well used. Perhaps not "radically" different, but appreciably different nonetheless.
@mweiss @stuart @navi In almost every city I've seen, the shift to better bike infrastructure started before wide adoption of the e-bike or segway or e-scooter by years. I don't think this change was driven by new technology as much as by preferences that were increasing demand for or bike lanes for other reasons. The bicycle is a 150 year old technology, after all.
@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")