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I genuinely find LLMs to be helpful with a wide variety of tasks. I have never once found an NFT to be useful.

Here's a random little example: I took a photo of my bookcase, with about 200 books on it, and had my LLM make a spreadsheet of all the books with their title, author, date of publication, cover art image, and estimated price. I then used this spreadsheet to mass upload them to Facebook Marketplace in bulk. In about 20 minutes I had over 200 facebook ads posted for every one of my books. I also had it use some marketing psychology to write attractive descriptions for the ads.

I think they'll be on this for a while, since unlike NFTs this is actually useful tech. (Though not in every field yet, certainly.)

There are going to be some sub-fads related to GPUs and AI that the tech industry will jump on next. All this is speculation:

• Floating point operations will be replaced by highly-quantized integer math, which is much faster and more efficient, and almost as accurate. There will be some buzzword like "quantization" that will be thrown out to the general public. Recall "blast processing" for the Sega. It will be the downfall of NVIDIA, and for a few months the reduced power consumption will cause AI companies to clamor over being green.
• (The marketing of) personal AI assistants (to help with everyday tasks, rather than just queries and media generation) will become huge; this scenario predicts 2026 or so.
• You can bet that tech will find ways to deprive us of ownership over our devices and software; hard drives will get smaller to force users to use the cloud more. (This will have another buzzword.)

AI is here to stay but I can't wait to see it get past the point where every app has to have their own AI shoehorned in regardless of what the app is. Sick of it.

NFT was the worst "tech" crap I have ever even heard about, like pure 100% total full scam. Kind of impressed that anyone could be so stupid they'd fall for it.

In this thread: people doing the exact opposite of what they do seemingly everywhere else and ignoring the title to respond to the post.

Figuring out what the next big thing will be is obviously hard or investing would be so easy as to be cheap.

I feel like a lot of what has been exploding has been ideas someone had a long time ago that are just becoming easier and given more PR. 3D printing was invented in the '80s but had to wait for computation and cost reduction. The idea that would become neural network for AI is from the '50s, and was toyed with repeatedly over the years but ultimately the big breakthrough was just that computing became cheap enough to run massive server farms. AR stems back to the 60s and gets trotted out slightly better each generation or so, but it was just tech getting smaller that made it more viable. What other theoretical ideas from the last century could now be done for a much lower price?

The AI hype will pass but AI is here to stay. Current models already allow us to automate processes which were impossible to automate just a few years ago. Here are some examples:

• Detecting anomalies in roentgen and CT-scans
• Normalizing unstructured information
• Information distribution in organizations
• Learning platforms
• Stock photos
• Modelling
• Animation

Note, these are obvious applications.

For better or worse, AI is here to stay. Unlike NFTs, it’s actually used by ordinary people - and there’s no sign of it stopping anytime soon.

If a technology is useful for lust, military or space it is going to stay. AI/machine learning is used for all of them, nft's for none.

AI and NFT are not even close. Almost every person I know uses AI, and nobody I know used NFT even once. NFT was a marginal thing compared to AI today.

Another banger from lemmites

Mate, you can use AI for porn

If literally -nothing- else can convince you, just the fact that it's an automated goon machine should tell you that we are not going to live this one down as easily as shit like NFTs

OP here to clarify: With AI Hype Train I meant the fact that so many people are slapping AI onto anything just to make it sound cool like at this point I wouldn't be surprised if a bidet company slapped AI into one of their bidets...

I'm not saying AI is gonna go anywhere or doesn't have legitimate uses but currently there is money in AI and everybody wants to get AI into their things to be cool & capitalize on the hype:

Same thing with NFT's and blockchains. The technology behind it has it's legitimate uses but not everyone is slapping it onto things like a few years ago just to make fast bank.

Oh, it's gonna be so much worse. NFTs mostly just ruined sad crypto bros who were dumb enough to buy a picture of an ape. Companies are investing heavily in generative AI projects without establishing a proper use case or even its basic efficacy. ChatGPTs newest iterations are getting worse; no one has a solution to hallucinations; the energy costs are astronomical; the entire process relies on plagiarism and copyright infringement, and even if you get by all of that, consumers hate it. AI ads are met derision or revulsion, and AI customer service is universally despised.

This isn't like NFTs. It's more like Facebook and VR. Sure, VR has its uses, but investing heavily in unnecessary and unwanted VR tools cost Facebook billions. The difference is that when this bubble bursts, instead of just hitting Facebook, this is going to hit every single tech company.

AI, in some form, is here to stay, but the bubble of tech companies shoving it into everything will pop at some point. As for what that would look like, it would probably be like the dot-com bubble.

You know what pisses me off?

My so-called creative peers generating AI slop images to go with the music that they are producing.

I’m pretty sure they’d be up in arms if they found out that an AI produced tune got to the top 10 on Beatport.

One of the more popular AI movements right now is DJs creating themselves as action figures.

The hypocrisy is hilarious.

I'm waiting for the cheap graphic cards

I hate to break it to you, but AI isn't going anywhere, it's only going to accelerate. There is no comparison to NFT's.

Hint: the major governments of the world were never scrambling to produce the best, most powerful NFT's.

AND the huge AR/metaverse wave!

Fascism. Apparently.

AI is now a catch-all acronym that is becoming meaningless. The old, conventional light switch on the wall of the house I first lived in some 70 years ago could be classified as 'AI. The switch makes a decision, based on what position I put it in. I turn the light on, it remembers that decision and stays on. The thing is, the decision was first made by me and the switch carried out that decision, based on criteria that was designed into it.

That is, AI still does not make any decision that humans have not designed it to make in the first place.

What is needed, is a more appropriate terminology, describing the actual process of what we call AI. And really, the more appropriate descriptor would not be Artificial Intelligence, but Human-made Intelligent devices. All of these so-called AI devices and applications are, after all, completely human designed and human made. The originating Intelligence still comes from the minds of humans.

Most of the applications which we call Artificial Intelligence are actually Algorithmic Intelligence - decisions made based on algorithms designed by humans in the first place. The devices just follow these algorithms. Since humans have written these algorithms, it should really be no surprise that these devices are making decisions very similar to the decisions humans would make. Duhhh. We made them in our own image, no wonder they 'think' like us.

Really, these AI devices do not make decisions, they merely follow the decisions humans first designed into them.

Big Blue, the IBM chess playing computer, plays excellent chess because humans designed it to play chess, and to make chess decisions, based on how humans first designed the chess game.

What would be really scarry would be if Big Blue decided of its own volition that it no longer wanted to play chess, but it wanted to play a game it designed.

NFTs were just star registries. Pay a fee, and you can claim to own a certain star.