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Guesses at next tech bro stuff (some already in the wild) unfortunately, we're not done with AI yet
AI Teachers and Tutors
Full AI video commercials.
3D AI experiences in VR.
AI medical diagnosis for both consumer and insurance
AI pricing for insurance
AI shopping assistants, clothes, styling, decorating
AI mid-level management to rat out on people not working 60hrs a week.
I remember trying to investigate using crypto as a replacement for international bank transfers. The gas fees were much larger than the greatly inflated fee my bank was charging. Another time, I used crypto to donate to a hacker I liked the work of. I realized the crypto transfer was actually more traceable when accounting for know your customer laws and the public ledger. That was when I realized crypto was truly useless. AI is mildly useful when coding, to point me to packages I wouldn't have heard of, provide straightforward examples. That's the only time I use it. The tech industry and investor class are desperate for it to be the next world-changing thing which is leading them to slap it on everything. That will eventually wear off.
I think another field where AI works is video (and photo? never tried it) upscaling. I can take a 1080p movie and upscale it to 4k, after that it is truly a much better experience when I view it of oculus
Optimistic scenario: 5 years from now (if there isn't another major breakthrough in AI technology and we can extrapolate from current trends instead), we'll all have a much clearer understanding of the things AI is useful for and what it's not very good at; or, what people want it for, and what people don't want it for. The tech industry will concentrate on marketing the profitable uses. In other words, the magic✨ will wear off, but not homogenously across different use cases.
I do feel that, unlike Crypto, AI (or, to drop the buzzwords, LLMs and other machine-learning based language processors and parsers) will end up having a place in the world.
As it is NOW, the AI hype train is definitely an investment bubble and it will definitely explode in a glorious fashion eventually. Taking a lot of people down with it.
But unlike Crypto, AI does -- It like does things, you know? Even if I personally feel like it's mostly only good for a toy, all my attempts to use it for anything society would deem "valuable" were frustrated, but at least I can RP with it when my friends aren't available. It is a thing that exists and can be used.
Crypto was funny because it was literally useless. Just an incredibly wasteful techno-fetishistic speculative vehicle with precisely zero shame about being that.
As for what's next, I think Quantum Computing might be it. That is, assuming the Tech Industry even survives the bubble's burst in its current form. Because everyone in the industry is putting all their eggs including theoretical eggs that haven't even been laid, and in fact there's not even a chicken in this AI hype train. And even with AI becoming part of people's lives, as I predict it indeed will, when the bubble does burst it might end up hitting the reset button on who is truly in charge of things.
That internet fad is gonna die any day now! And who's really going to use iPhones? They'll never take off!
I hate that we call any algorithm that gets information by looking at data "AI." If people consider something like linear regression (a supervised model) to be "AI", then "AI" isn't going to pass. Hell, even neural networks are just a shit ton of addition and multiplications.
You might be waiting a long time, friend. NFTs were truly useless (besides ripping people off). AI actually has its uses and isn't totally worthless.
You're assuming there will be a next time. When the AI bubble bursts, and it will, the whole economy will go down with it. AI companies are massively in debt and have a product that ranges from utter shit to kinda okay, and absolutely no sane way to monetize it. Everyone outside of tech, you know, the customers, fucking hate AI. It has stolen their work, jeopardized their livelihoods, wasted their resources and made the most insufferable asshats in history very wealthy.
399 responses and counting. I got bore going through them. The train, apparently is VERY long and indeed will take a VERY long time to pass.
TBH, the AI hype is much more annoying. I don't get the point on NFTs either, but at least it was easy to avoid.
Quantum computing, probably.
Problem is, it has the potential to be actual reality. Tech bros need their products to be 99% blue-sky hype to get their financing, and they can't risk some nerd going "well actually what you're suggesting can't be done any more efficiently on a quantum computer than you can do now".
I very sadly don't see it going anywhere because of how much money has been invested by big tech corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Reason they're willing to put so much money into these corporations is because they're being built on their cloud infrastructure, which the different AI companies pay for. So either way, they end up getting more money and becoming more influential, even if the AI hype eventually dies out.
The difference is that AI is actually quite useful in some areas like medical research. Language models like Chatgpt are also useful when used right. It's the stable diffusion stuff (image generation) that is crap and the fact that companies keep shoving AI features that no one asked for down our throat.
I’m seeing foldable phones and tablets in lots of movies like it’s an amazing tech people can’t wait for. When in reality they are spinning their wheels trying to get you to keep buying a new phone for $1500 every year. This one has a new button!!!
AI is both overhyped crap and a revolution.
Reminds me of Blockchain
According to new research from Deloitte, 74 percent of large companies (with sales over $500 million) see a “compelling business case” for blockchain technology.
Indeed, from supply chain management and regulatory monitoring to recruiting and healthcare, organizations are applying blockchain to their business models to revolutionize how they track and verify transactions.
It's not a fake or fundamentally useless technology, but everyone who doesn't understand it is rushing to figure out how they're gonna claim to use it.
Uhhh,
Unlilke NFT's , AI is actually doing real things?!?
I'm mean, it's not replacing peoples jobs,
But I'm actively using it to remove noise, recognize objects, up-scaling, motion planning, create songs, create images, condense large amounts of text, christ, lots of actual useful tools....
Hey, A1 is great so long as you have it on the right dish. I dunno that I'd call it a "hype train" either, because it's been around for years!
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