I remember trying to investigate using crypto as a replacement for international bank transfers. The gas fees were much larger than the greatly inflated fee my bank was charging. Another time, I used crypto to donate to a hacker I liked the work of. I realized the crypto transfer was actually more traceable when accounting for know your customer laws and the public ledger. That was when I realized crypto was truly useless.
AI is mildly useful when coding, to point me to packages I wouldn’t have heard of, provide straightforward examples. That’s the only time I use it. The tech industry and investor class are desperate for it to be the next world-changing thing which is leading them to slap it on everything. That will eventually wear off.
I think another field where AI works is video (and photo? never tried it) upscaling. I can take a 1080p movie and upscale it to 4k, after that it is truly a much better experience when I view it of oculus
Definitely! My Nvidia shield, which came out 6 years ago, does 4k upscaling. Oddly, despite the ancient tech and the current AI obsession, no one is competing with that ability! Machine learning is great and has been developing for decades, making life better in various ways. Large Language Models are what is overhyped and limited in utility.
Optimistic scenario: 5 years from now (if there isn’t another major breakthrough in AI technology and we can extrapolate from current trends instead), we’ll all have a much clearer understanding of the things AI is useful for and what it’s not very good at; or, what people want it for, and what people don’t want it for. The tech industry will concentrate on marketing the profitable uses. In other words, the magic✨ will wear off, but not homogenously across different use cases.
I remember trying to investigate using crypto as a replacement for international bank transfers. The gas fees were much larger than the greatly inflated fee my bank was charging. Another time, I used crypto to donate to a hacker I liked the work of. I realized the crypto transfer was actually more traceable when accounting for know your customer laws and the public ledger. That was when I realized crypto was truly useless. AI is mildly useful when coding, to point me to packages I wouldn’t have heard of, provide straightforward examples. That’s the only time I use it. The tech industry and investor class are desperate for it to be the next world-changing thing which is leading them to slap it on everything. That will eventually wear off.
I think another field where AI works is video (and photo? never tried it) upscaling. I can take a 1080p movie and upscale it to 4k, after that it is truly a much better experience when I view it of oculus
Definitely! My Nvidia shield, which came out 6 years ago, does 4k upscaling. Oddly, despite the ancient tech and the current AI obsession, no one is competing with that ability! Machine learning is great and has been developing for decades, making life better in various ways. Large Language Models are what is overhyped and limited in utility.
Optimistic scenario: 5 years from now (if there isn’t another major breakthrough in AI technology and we can extrapolate from current trends instead), we’ll all have a much clearer understanding of the things AI is useful for and what it’s not very good at; or, what people want it for, and what people don’t want it for. The tech industry will concentrate on marketing the profitable uses. In other words, the magic✨ will wear off, but not homogenously across different use cases.