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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sharing this post I made 5 months ago:

I'm an IT consultant and I had a meeting with AWS yesterday. My manager asked me to give the AWS team an overview of our solution so they could see what they could use for a new program they were pitching our clients. That's all the information I had, so I started the meeting by saying "I'm not sure what you all are proposing, so I'm going to give you a high level but please let me know where you need more details."

After I had finished giving my overview, I tried to get more info out of them about what they were proposing to build. I shit you not, their response was that they wanted to "build an app that allowed the business to run with AI and ML (Machine Learning).”

They didn't say, "we want to solve X and Y problems" or "enable Z functionality." Literally their entire goal was to build something with AI. I'm glad I wasn't on camera or in person, because I literally face-palmed.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time to "build" a D&D campaign with an LLM as the DM.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If someone poured a shitload of money into it, and had actual humans on quality control and some writing... You could generate a setting with a bunch of NPCs who have generated back stories and connections and shit.

And it would still come out as some of the blandest of bland as for as game went. But hey, a bad game is better than no game right?

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 78 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I begrudge having Antelope Internet when we could have a more inclusive Antler Internet.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, you mean the Antlernet, home of the Herdiverse.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Funded by DERPA

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't mess with this particular old god

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Where can I find this mount?

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Ah. Interesting.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

We're already in a cyberpunk dystopia, I want arm improvements dammit!

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"AI" is the new "blockchain".

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago

You summoned the crypto bros.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And the few people still into blockchain will be like "what if we combined both blockchains and neural networks?"...

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Actually blockchain is going to change the world.

Any minute now…

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's similarly hyped but deep learning has real applications wherever huge amounts of data are involved. The only application to blockchain tech is online crime.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 13 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Not really. You can use crypto to make non-criminal transactions too. You sound exactly like EU politicians, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Are you saying that you don't need privacy with your transactions? If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. And it's the same with crypto.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Theoretically yes. But practically, the whole tech hasn't reached any noteworthy application at the same age as the Android OS.

The tech is garbage because of its inefficiency and blockchain's only selling point, trustlessness, is a lie because you have to trust someone eventually to get your tokens - or your notary substitute not to fuck up the code of your smart contract (lol).

This only works for criminals in countries that don't give a shit if you scam foreigners, like Russia, for example. They know full well who those criminals are though. But that's fine. Blockchain tech never was meant for privacy (how could it with the ledger being public?)

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blockchain tech never was meant for privacy (how could it with the ledger being public?)

Stuff like Monero can hide that. And even bitcoin is better than banks. You don't have to link your identity to a Bitcoin wallet, meanwhile some banks even want a sample of your voice.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Monero is the only crypto that may actually provide the most barebones version of what Bitcoin was originally supposed to be, but it still has the problem of being massively slow inefficient and unscalable, compared to existing fiat currency electronic banking systems.

Crypto is never going to be widely adopted at PoS, by retailers, basically every attempt at doing that has failed, and I remember when that was the main sales pitch for Bitcoin.

Monero might work for hiding some money, illicit transactions, or doing cross border remittances without massive fees... but in general, crypto is 99% completely baseless speculation and scam grifts.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree that a lot of cryptocurrencies are scams, but if you're worried about inefficiency, you can use proof of stake crypto, such as Polkadot. It uses as much energy as 5 households iirc. Even if everyone can see transactions, no one can take that money away from you, which banks can easily do.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Proof of Stake only shines compared to Proof of Work. There's no consensus algorithm that isn't blown out of the water by conventional database tech performance-wise and there never will be because of the network character of blockchain tech.

Token-bros (I refuse to give you the term "crypto", it stands for cryptography) ignore this, maybe even rightly so, since the benchmark cannot be conventional tech if you're trying to implement trustlessness (the DB would be controlled by some entity like a bank) but since there is no trustlessness (trust the network, the devs, the exchange for real money, etc), it's a baseless idea.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Huh, I had not heard of Polkadot.

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I really hope some rich people lose a ton of money when the hype settles

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Regular people will lose a bunch of jobs in the process, as they try to replace workers with AI. Then as the AI inevitably fucks up, the companies that fix this will start to fail, and no longer be in a position to hire new human employees to fix the problem. So unemployment will go up, and only the large monopolies or oligarchies will be able to recover. So overall, this is going to suck.

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It feels a little dot com boom 2.0

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It feels exactly that. (Even down to the reliance on massive purchasing of new hardware.) but the effects will be much more widespread, as it won’t just be geographically in some tech areas, since this will touch a bunch of non-tech jobs.

[–] sevan@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, is nvidia the cisco of this cycle?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup

Edit: or the Sun Microsystems

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They wont, it's the normal people who'll lose the rich people money.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

:( :(

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, I totally back arm improvements.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You have an arm on your back?

Wild flex butt ok.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Butt-chugging; AKA Anal Imbibement

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

This boy's got the look of a future Supreme Court Justice.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Funded.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Aristocratic Ineptitude

Antisocial Interlocutor

Amiable Incompetence

Aesthetic Impersonator

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