There are bugs in every system. AI will just create different types of bugs. It's the nature of technology.
The hype money being thrown at AI is making the F35 of software out of this shit though. Big Tech accumulated so much cash and had nothing to throw it at after VR didn't take off.
Then we get Skynet.
Basically the US government has been trying to fight a tech war for their Big Tech buddies over about a decade. It's gone fucking terrible.
So I say just keep going like lemmings!
China tech looks like more Star Trek and the US looks more like Mad Max but somehow the analyst from the Heritage Foundation thinks China is copying the US homework.(E.g Huawei Cloud Matrix uses optical interconnects that NVIDIA doesn't have.)
It's analysis like that which created the shit strategy that is losing the tech war. But when you listen to idiots for advice and lose, who's really to blame?
I don't think that was their vibes.
From article:
the point is not to let ourselves be replaced by AIs, but to use them to improve ourselves and our productivity
My take:
The role of the programmer is ultimately to solve the problems. There are many ways to skin the cat. The better solutions comes from the better programmers.
Bosses under capitalism have less understanding of the pros/cons of a particular solution. Hence they will often use their decision making powers to choose the quick solution rather than the best.
LLM/AI is at arms reach from the people, no matter how much money Big Tech puts on Datacenters. The scary part is what Google always used to do best, lobbying for monopolization. Aside from that, we’re safe.
I think there's potential danger from other angles.
Capitalist bosses are looking to downsize their workforce. AI is marketed by Big Tech as the new "outsourcing". Bosses are dumb enough to pay for that. This is the SW version of a manufacturing robot.
In the meantime, we kill a lot of atmosphere on the data centre electricity to make this slop.
As I said though, AI is CURRENTLY a service as offered by the big tech oligarchy. Just like the search engine tool is dominated by Google. They use Search as a means of extracting money from the economy. It's a form of rent.
DeepSeek broke the service model. Others are following in their footsteps. It's just a matter of sticking to open source models to kill off the profitability of an AI oligarchy.
The threat I see is the dominance of AI services provided by an oligarchy of tech companies. Like Google dominance of search. It's a service that they own.
Thankfully China is a source of alternative AI services AND open source models. The bonus is that Chinese companies like Huawei are also an alternative source of AI hardware. This allows you to run your own AI models so you don't necessarily need their services.
You're thinking of class war. There's only one proven way to win that war: The working class rises up, kill some MFers and takes over. There's no point smashing the loom - kill the loom owners and take their looms.
And I’m chiefly concerning myself with critiquing the product, the AI art, from an artistic lens. It’s my belief that much of how AI is used results in art that isn’t very good.
It's based on the human decisions behind using the tool which is AI. The creative choices from the human is what makes it art. If there's absolute zero human involvement, it's just an audience observing a chaotic result of nature.
If the AI user doesn't respect the craft, then they don't make informed artistic choices. Hence the result is shit.
AI is more like the canvas at the moment. We haven't been able to teach it creativity.
The other aspect of art is finding your audience. The recently deceased Michael Leunig was a political cartoonist from Australia. He drew a very simple style that AI could replicate but his art was enjoyed because it was him.
AI won’t be stopped any more than the printing press and the internet before it. The machines aren’t the enemy. The owners are.
There's a hype machine that is trying to shoehorn AI into places where it isn't mature enough currently. Which is why the rush to market is a problem.
The owners of the machine think the machine can do more than it is capable of. This leads to the enshittification of the product. It is the customer that suffers.
In terms of art content, there's already a tonne of it. WAY MORE than audiences even want to consume. If anything, AI is pouring more shit into an overflowing cup.
The machine has been abused because the owner doesn't understand where the value resides.
In the meantime it's burning a lot of fossil fuels to make shit.
"I am willing to pay more as long as there are NO cheaper options (and I will grumble about it)."
Germany scored 105 out of 100 on the Trolldom House index. One day America will get back there with a lot of soul searching and work...
Understood but I think trying to reindustrialize may accelerate America's downfall because the world has globalised supply chains.
The 50s were good for America because WW2 left it without an industrial competitor.
"You thought my tariffs on everything would be inflationary for the US? Well hold my beer because guess how unconditionally supporting our 51st state in another war in the Middle East is going to affect global oil prices?" - Big Brain Trump