Have you even read the article you linked ? It's obvious AI vomit. Fuck you.
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Nah, I think that's just Axios' writing style. A lot of their articles are bullet point-formatted for business folks. I don't mind it, and the content doesn't seem AI generated in this case, as far as I can tell.
I sure do love hating AI!
"The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment."
Let's not forget about the deepfakes of women and children as well as the cognitive decline of frequent ai users.
Personally I am mostly worried about the fact it's murdering the very soul of the world.
If it was somehow doing the opposite, losing jobs and jacked up electrical bills would be unfortunate but acceptable side-effects.
The other two, though, are instrumental in the murder.
Let us also not forget just how utterly and thoroughly punchable the faces of all the top AI firm techbrodudes are. Altman. Musk. Zuckerberg. Huang. They are all just absolute bearers of Backpfeifengesichte who, even if their product wasn't a straight up Ponzi scheme close to the point of collapse, would be making people take a second look askance at the offerings.
You missed one!
he looks like he smells
Damn, you can call people out for their actions but I look like him 😭 I smell fine.
I smell fine.
Proof?
I've probably missed a lot more than one. (I don't even know who that one is.)
This one looks more like an eight year old who put on Dad's suit and then accidentally got mistaken for an adult and is now afraid in a room of adults.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic and professional liar
Mistral CEO is a cute twink outlier
"Nothing in the future is inevitable and no single person, company, or group gets to decide what will happen in the future."
Damn straight.
I have a urge to shot gun a beer in celebration.
The bottom line: The AI industry has a serious PR problem that threatens to inhibit the rapid growth that its leaders have taken for granted.
oh, it's just a PR problem. A couple ad campaigns will fix it. (/SARCASM)
Nuclear energy and its problems, has seemed to me a firing analogy for a while.
Theoretically, as an energy technology, there’s plenty to gain.
But radiation and inherently catastrophic danger are fundamentally incompatible with biology and wellbeing, and so humanity mostly rejected the technology.
LLMs likely have some similar incompatibilities, despite whatever promise they may or may not have.
The radiation issue is simple to solve, just add more material around it. Waste management is really simple, dig a deep hole in stable bedrock, put the waste there, backfill with clay, done.
Now do mining. And transportation. And reactors not blowing up. You know, all those simple to solve problems.
Mining, yeah, that is an issue, but we can solve that.
Before any mine is permitted to open, there should be the requirement to establish an independent environmental fund, the fund will be started with a lump sum, and every year X% of the value of the minerals extracted that year will be put into the environmental fund.
That fund is then used to clean up the site and restore it as much as possible.
Transportation? Most countries (including the US) have working freight rail system, cheap and one of the most environmentally friendly ways of overland transport.
Reactors not blowing up? That is an extremely uncommon failure mode. It is mostly solved by planning, don't build in seismic active areas, select the correct type of reactor, establish safe procedures and have a disciplined and well trained workforce.
So wake me up when all of this has been solved. (Note the tense.) All kinds of things "can be done safely". (Note both the tense and the mood.) The point is they're not being done safely. In theory LLMs don't have to be death spiral machines. In reality they all are.
The only thing not being done safely is mining.
The rest is and has been for decades.
Coal and oil powerplants emit far, far more radiation than a nuclear plant, that is on top of all the normal shit in smoke.
So in your world trains never derail, trucks never crash?
Here on planet Earth...
It happens, sure, but very rarely.
And with the nuclear containment cars, it doesn't really matter in terms of radiation, they are so over engineered that they don't break.
I like the world you live in. I recommend you avoid Earth.
I live in reality, not made-up-bullshit-land.
Look, it's fine if you dislike, but if you are going to argue against it, please argue with facts.
That's the name of your planet? Cool cool cool.
Unlike oil, that is SO SAFE that we never saw an environmental catastrophe caused by an oil tanker spilling its cargo...
Ooh! Whataboutism! Absolutely not an irrelevant injection here, not in the slightest!