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Generative AI boom "could come to a fairly swift end"
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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Some of the skepticism is just a reaction to the excessive hype with which generative AI has been pushed over the past few months. If you've seen tech hype cycles before, the hype itself can generate some skepticism. Plus there are many dubious cases where companies are shoving ChatGPT or similar into their products just so they can advertise them as "AI powered", and these poorly thought out, marketing-driven moves deserve criticism.
It's anecdotal but I have found that the people who are "skeptical" (to use your word) about generative AI often turn out to be financially dependent on something that generative AI can do.
That it to say, they're worried it will replace them at their job and so they very much want it to fail.
You have to have some skin in the game for that kind of cognitive dissonance. I think some are even resentful they can't understand it. A 21st century cotton gin.
It's amazing how critical Lemmy is of ChatGPT. It has become fashionable to pretend it's a trash technology. The reality is that it is and will continue changing the world.
It is weird. I love this stuff. It can be so useful and would love a game with interactive npc. Also really fun tools to brainstorm with.
What a sane, boring, lukewarm take. Git out, we don't like you.