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If a tool costs more to be made than the equivalent of buying every single person on earth a loaf of bread every single day for 300 days, only for it to have niche uses, that only helps what is possible with already existing tools, is it worth it?
That saying (or, dare I say, thought-terminating cliché) glosses over the consideration of risks and costs that result from its uncritical usage. No sane person should trust it without serious reservations just because it fits the purpose, and that’s true whether or not it bears the latest combination of letters peddled by tech bros. It’s a dangerous, irresponsible mentality. It’s a tool the same way a sledgehammer made out of plutonium is a tool.
Unless you pick a particularly short-lived isotope, the radiation wouldn’t have time to hurt you before you died of regular heavy metal poisoning like you’d get from something boring like lead or mercury.
I mean in an old nuclear bomb that’s pretty much the situation. Use a conventional explosive to slam some plutonium like a sledgehammer and nukes have proven to be a strong deterrent when a country had them. Still a tool with a use case
Your comment is a sweeping statement that is thought terminating itself.
No sane person should trust it without serious reservations just because it fits the purpose
Using a tool for something it’s intended for automatically involves some thought process. And this thought process also involves its limitations and potential for danger.
Your criticism stems from your dislike for AI and your opinion that it’s generally not useful. An opinion that is shared widely here, but with little to no proof at all.
Your comment is so fit for purpose, displaying such a massive willful ignorance about the world in general. Because the biggest problem with asbestos wasn’t using it for home insulation. It killed millions of workers in manufacturing plants and mines. Its biggest industrial use case was for electrical insulation of high voltage transmission lines. Where it also killed hundreds of thousands of technicians in the us alone. Before that it was used for lamp wicks. Where it killed at least a couple of millions more over a century. Today, asbestos kills 250 thousand people a year, 12 to 15 thousand in the us every year.
I supposed any tool can be considered useful if you’re ignorant enough about it or if you’re willing to lie without remorse.
It’s a tool, use it where it works and don’t where it doesn’t.
But that doesn’t work with the people creating AI as they are totally dependent on the believe that AI can do absolutely everything (and an artificial general intelligence is just moments away…) to justify they insane investments. So they will make up a million stupid narratives why some people are “actually” not using AI as it obviously can’t be because of AI shortcomings…
You are probably also one of those insane ideologues that refuse to hammer in a screw for some reason, although you know how well that hammer worked on nails… 😂
Usually the ones that accelerate the destruction of our planet, perpetuate sexist and racist biases, pray opon the weaknesses of how our minds work, exploit the underprivileged, devalue humanity and artistry, are annoying and overhyped, I think you get the picture.
So which algorithm is that? If you’re hinting at manipulating the populace because in fact they are easily programmed via social network manipulation. Yeah anything done maliciously is of course bad but I think that comes down to the use of the tools and not the intrinsic nature of the tools themselves. Algorithms are just math, it’s the will of the individuals wielding them that is corrupt and that seems to be your actual chief complaint.
I did not say that. You, like everyone else that says “its just a tool and technology is neutral”, should read more books about ethics, politics and sociology. Everything we do is political. Nothing is “neutral”.
I’m not saying the use cases that some have chosen for certain tools is neutral. Their behavior is indeed bad and should be called out. Ai for instance is at it’s core just a mathematical structure that has no intrinsic behavior, same for the concept of algorithms for social media or algorithms for drones or algorithms for the internet. Yeah some people use the internet to cause a lot of harm or even guide the outcomes of nations but is it the fault of html, CSS, and JavaScript? Not really. The problem is some companies, some people, some government officials and their choices.
It’s a tool, use it where it works and don’t where it doesn’t.
If a tool costs more to be made than the equivalent of buying every single person on earth a loaf of bread every single day for 300 days, only for it to have niche uses, that only helps what is possible with already existing tools, is it worth it?
That all depends on how it was made. Not all models cost that much. Chinese models were mostly produced for far less mostly.
Anything is cheap if you just steal it.
That saying (or, dare I say, thought-terminating cliché) glosses over the consideration of risks and costs that result from its uncritical usage. No sane person should trust it without serious reservations just because it fits the purpose, and that’s true whether or not it bears the latest combination of letters peddled by tech bros. It’s a dangerous, irresponsible mentality. It’s a tool the same way a sledgehammer made out of plutonium is a tool.
Plutonium sledgehammer sounds fucking awesome though
Pretty effective because of its high density, too. It’s a shame it’s brittle and would give you heavy metal poisoning.
As ways to die go that also sounds pretty rad
Oh, that would be rad alright
Unless you pick a particularly short-lived isotope, the radiation wouldn’t have time to hurt you before you died of regular heavy metal poisoning like you’d get from something boring like lead or mercury.
🤘
I mean in an old nuclear bomb that’s pretty much the situation. Use a conventional explosive to slam some plutonium like a sledgehammer and nukes have proven to be a strong deterrent when a country had them. Still a tool with a use case
Your comment is a sweeping statement that is thought terminating itself.
Using a tool for something it’s intended for automatically involves some thought process. And this thought process also involves its limitations and potential for danger.
Your criticism stems from your dislike for AI and your opinion that it’s generally not useful. An opinion that is shared widely here, but with little to no proof at all.
And then your boss says: “Use it for everything or you’re fired. Why are you using less tokens than anyone else? You must be more productive or else…”
People probably say that about asbestos too.
And they’d be right
Of course, it still has uses. Just not in home insulation.
Your comment is so fit for purpose, displaying such a massive willful ignorance about the world in general. Because the biggest problem with asbestos wasn’t using it for home insulation. It killed millions of workers in manufacturing plants and mines. Its biggest industrial use case was for electrical insulation of high voltage transmission lines. Where it also killed hundreds of thousands of technicians in the us alone. Before that it was used for lamp wicks. Where it killed at least a couple of millions more over a century. Today, asbestos kills 250 thousand people a year, 12 to 15 thousand in the us every year.
I supposed any tool can be considered useful if you’re ignorant enough about it or if you’re willing to lie without remorse.
But that doesn’t work with the people creating AI as they are totally dependent on the believe that AI can do absolutely everything (and an artificial general intelligence is just moments away…) to justify they insane investments. So they will make up a million stupid narratives why some people are “actually” not using AI as it obviously can’t be because of AI shortcomings…
If the tool don’t work then don’t use it. I wouldn’t try to unscrew something with chopsticks
You are probably also one of those insane ideologues that refuse to hammer in a screw for some reason, although you know how well that hammer worked on nails… 😂
Na, fuck that shit. Just don’t use it.
Why? Do you have that feeling towards other algorithms?
Yes I do 😊
Like which ones and why?
Usually the ones that accelerate the destruction of our planet, perpetuate sexist and racist biases, pray opon the weaknesses of how our minds work, exploit the underprivileged, devalue humanity and artistry, are annoying and overhyped, I think you get the picture.
So which algorithm is that? If you’re hinting at manipulating the populace because in fact they are easily programmed via social network manipulation. Yeah anything done maliciously is of course bad but I think that comes down to the use of the tools and not the intrinsic nature of the tools themselves. Algorithms are just math, it’s the will of the individuals wielding them that is corrupt and that seems to be your actual chief complaint.
I did not say that. You, like everyone else that says “its just a tool and technology is neutral”, should read more books about ethics, politics and sociology. Everything we do is political. Nothing is “neutral”.
I’m not saying the use cases that some have chosen for certain tools is neutral. Their behavior is indeed bad and should be called out. Ai for instance is at it’s core just a mathematical structure that has no intrinsic behavior, same for the concept of algorithms for social media or algorithms for drones or algorithms for the internet. Yeah some people use the internet to cause a lot of harm or even guide the outcomes of nations but is it the fault of html, CSS, and JavaScript? Not really. The problem is some companies, some people, some government officials and their choices.
Pmuch this.
How do they feel about machine language translations? It’s been “AI” (ML model) since the late 90’s.
Traffic prediction?
Medical scan data processing?
And so so many more specific uses of ML models that have been a part of daily life for literal decades.
Call out LLMs specifically.
Did we burn down that planet for that stuff? Exploit workers to do weather forcasting?