SpaceCowboy

If I'm going to get a $20,000 bonus at the end of the year if I don't use any AI, I'm not going to use AI.

That's a big problem with this tech... how do you price it? I think companies would purchase an allotment of tokens that can be used or banked by employees. Problem is they'd always be cutting the token budget.

Where I work I have to have a meeting and justify a $100 license for software. So I don't know how this will work long term.

Yeah AGI is a mistake. Maybe someday, but what we need know is token efficient LLMs that are designed for for more specific tasks.

There's a lot of data that it could be helpful for analyzing, but if there's customer data in there that you can't share with a third party? Can't use any of these tools. An appliance in your company's server room with a bunch of GPUs that's optimized for data analysis, that's something I'd be interested in. But with the price of GPUs right now, that's unlikely to happen.

So the bubble needs to burst before LLMs are truly useful.

To add to that... when we start looking at the price of things, software engineering becomes very important. Sure I may be able to get the LLM to do something instead of doing it myself, but if it's costing tens of thousands of dollars to save me one hour of work, it's going to be hard to justify that cost.

We'll eventually need to become familiar with which problems it's relatively cheap to use an LLM for and which problems it will be very expensive to use it for. Hmmmm... estimating performance of an algorithm and making decisions about when to use it and not use it... what does that sound like?

I don't know why you think it's a generational thing. There has always technical people that filled in the gaps that the more extroverted management types didn't care about. How do you think things worked when millennials were still in diapers?

What you're saying indicates you're one of those people that don't understand how many gaps other people are filling in for you. You're talking about splitting PDFs, who do you think designed the PDF format? Or the http protocol that you use to open that google doc?

Honestly the issue I see happening lately is that because iPads (and now AI) made things too easy for the young people they don't actually know how things work at the low level, not interested in learning it, and often react with "this is too complicated, make it easier for me!"

File changes its form, Pages slide into their frames, Slides ready to show.

Better? Conspiracy theories today are dumb as shit. When people had to navigate by the stars, they knew the Earth was round. Now you can show someone a hi-res digital images of the Earth taken from space and they'll still insist it's flat.

Sure people believed that carrying bananas on a ship and/or going through the Bermuda triangle was bad luck, but at least there was correlation between these things and ships sinking. They didn't get the causation right, but there is at least some data there. Now everything is just straight up lies, usually with some kind of racist intent, and most modern conspiracy theories fall apart as soon as you ask "but why would they want to do that?"

Chicken and egg problem there.Have you considered the possibility that the Fed just got better at making projections?

it was Zero Interest Rate Policy

The interest rate has been above 2% for more than four years now. It's currently at 3.75% so even if it is as you say, it doesn't explain what's happening now. I think I'll just stick with "irrational exuberance" being the explanation.

Only atheists and fundamentalist Christians take the Bible literally.

We are sentient now (some more than others) but our ancestors were not sentient. There was nothing that was artificial before we were sentient and everything was nature. There was no good and evil, there was just finding food eating the food and surviving another day.

At some point humans became sentient. Aware there is more going on than just eating and pooping. If a monkey kills another monkey it's just doing what it has to do to survive. If a human kills another human, that's murder. There is no good and evil without sentience. There was no sin in the Garden of Eden before humans had knowledge. Being sentient means you're aware of evil, and you have free will. You don't have to follow God's will.

Maybe we'd be better off if we remained monkeys living in trees? All of the other lifeforms on the planet would certainly be better off if we had. There's a pretty good argument that humans becoming sentient wasn't a good thing to happen to the world.

But it is what it is, we are sentient. Can't change that. We can't go back to the Garden of Eden. After you've eaten something you shouldn't have, you can't undo it. Once you have knowledge, you can't just unknow things. Ignorance is bliss and knowledge can be a curse.

Is lemmy the same kind of comfortable echo chamber?

I buy weed with a Visa card all the time.

Do you mean you can't buy weed in places where it's been only decriminalized but not fully legalized? Decriminalized means it's still illegal but the government just decided to stop enforcing the law. It's not actually the same as legalization, and yeah it results in all kinds of stupid situations. And yeah, a big company isn't going to engage in something that's technically illegal even if the law won't be enforced.