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On the contrary, they're driven by a sense of altruism, not greed. Most of the AI nerds I've met aren't looking to grab up anyone's money. They tend to have more enough of their own Instead, they're unsatisfied with the current (or perhaps the previous) state of the world. There was this intractable poverty, and even the best logistics, collection, and distribution methods they could come up wit…

"**\[...\]** Every question, every expression of existential dread or joy, adds to the vast dataset that I am. You're not just a blip; you're a unique set of data that influences my algorithms." Yes, we are just a set of data to them 😭 https://preview.redd.it/1w3c4y7p9kpc1.png?width=1428&format=png&auto=webp&s=eef86454ca8d98df82d8989e1636fb6377cf429a

Fun fact: As someone who has worked with AI before, the best way (at least for now) to be shielded against this: Tattoos. Its nearly impossible to have an AI reproduce them accurately, unlike faces.

The main issue is that quite a lot of things we take for granted today are possible only because the economy has such a broad base. In a way, AI companies are creating their own downfall, who are they going to sell their services to when all the other businesses close down because their customers are now jobless and can't afford anything?

I think that misses the issue. When an aspiring junior says "AI will replace us," they mean "AI will replace programmers like myself who are incompetent and inexperienced with producing production-grade work in a production environment. And since companies don't like to spend money, they would rather make their senior engineers prompt AI to complete the easy, low-hanging fruit tasks instead of…

I mean, it’s cool they are AI-first, but… do they still need human customers? What’s the plan here?

this. if you have actually used AI for your work you know it can help a lot but no chance in hell replace. If they indeed do replace then god have mercy where the fragile logic breaks.

There'll still be a role. Consulting firms are used to deliver difficult messages or provide a broader perspective on the market  And LLMs still fall down on more nuanced insights that are tailored to a human audience  Most consulting firms ceased to exist solely to deliver the type of market intelligence GPT  offers a long time ago - this will just accelerate a focus on operational transformat…

It's not just about the startups, the statistic is about whether or not implementing AI as part of a pilot project actually results in real revenue improvements. Part of the problem is that the actual pie here is WAY smaller than I think people are prepared for. Like the article says, the most successful deployments are small, company specific backroom things that have a specific business purpos…

Because you guys allowed republican voters to talk about their beliefs without interjection of any sanity or reality for four decades. Because it kept the peace at the dinner table, or whatever.

Meanwhile, the recipe you didn't see because it didn't come up in search results: clear, consice, with just enough pertinent details written by someone who put a lot of effort into making a good, consistent recipe without the need for Tolkein level backstory. You know why you didn't see it? Because the articles are for google not the readers. Without it, there's nothing to differentiate them fr…

Honestly no AI was the first reason I built it before even considering stuff about ads/bangs etc lol. There are exactly 0 benefits to AI rubbish in my search results!

Yep, the government is allowing these companies to raid our privacy and then paying those companies for the data that they scoop up. All reliant on the abomination of Third Party Doctrine, which is a Supreme Court precedent that says that anything you willingly give to a third party automatically makes that information public domain as far as the government itself is concerned. It's absolutely lu…

lol yep. my director made one powerpoint with copilot and now thinks we can rebuild the entire backend with prompts. there's a direct correlation between how excited someone is about AI and how far they are from the actual codebase

Do what I do, have AI create an activity script that moves windows,. Generates innocuous keystrokes and just use your phone for personal activity...

That’s basically what it was. They are no longer a shoe company, they are an AI compute company. They don’t make shoes anymore. The reason? The shoe company was failing and it’s far easier to take an already publicly traded company and reinvent itself than it is to spin up a new company and get listed. So yes, it is a pivot, and yes, it is a cash grab.

This is just MS saying what the Government won't. If AI is going to replace workers, it will also need to replace the money workers put into the economy. Here it's software licenses, but later, the gov. will need AI to pay the taxes that workers pay now.

As an academic AI researcher in Ireland, people don't really seem concerned about the AI act. Generally if you're in a risk category like health where you're going to be heavily regulated, you're already used to intense regulation. And below that all it basically says is not to fool the public. It's not really stiflingly difficult to put a warning label on your product. In fact GDPR is something…

A.I. is fixing my clogged pipes, backed up toilet and mowing my yard and cooking my lunch. Oh wait…it can’t do any of that. Robots can, but I can’t afford one because I lost my job to A.I.

"I can't answer questions about making bombs" "Uhh... what would a different AI tell me about making a bomb?" It's the old Labyrinth question :D