And if AI is going to be the last straw, how long can we put it off for? Could it pop next year or can we still hold it off for another decade with even more ludicrous number-fuckery? I think that’s where the trick is going to be.

The thing that boggles my mind in all of this is the possibility that Trump installs some absolute toady tool bag in at the Fed and then just has the federal reserve bail out all of the bad investments. It’d mean probably hyperinflation, but who cares about normal shmucks trying to live a life? It’s much more important to pay the genius, scammy billionaires so they can keep their mega yachts fully gassed and assed.

I remember the news reporting about record breaking amounts of mortgage defaults in like 2007 as well. The signs were all there, but people were too oblivious or high on their own supply of farts to see them.

Anytime people are like “we couldn’t see this coming” I never understand why they are allowed to pass that obvious lie off in public.

The AI bubble signs are in plain view everywhere you look right now. If (or much more likely when) it bursts everyone will be talking about how they couldn’t possibly see it coming again.

If people say they couldn’t see this shit coming, maybe their myopic asses shouldn’t be in charge of anything important ever again.

Ahahaha, what a hero

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-YEa9ykEs

But I thought Repubs liked Russia now.

A true believer

Why is the r backwards?

Just realized that logo kinda looks like lips

i meant generating truthful new knowledge

It’s amazing that you managed to try to pretend this thing will do what it cannot do.

AI in general? Sure, maybe at some point.

LLMs? Nope. Sorry. They’re basically an echo of sorts.

(As, you know, the study you’re posting under is showing.)

Nah rare seered tuna is awesome

Yeah, I get very good sound out of class d amplifiers. They’re cheap; they’re energy efficient, and they usually pack in features for digital formats because it’s easy to do.

The US has almost no freedom of choice when it comes to some things, and transit is definitely one of those things. Sure, I can move to the desert, the beach, the forest, the city, or the country, but the only thing I’ll find in any of those places are cars, cars, and more cars. Even the cars themselves are starting to become choiceless with increasingly the only options to choose from being either trucks or SUVs.

America is the home of a choiceless and meaningless variety.

If a robotic taxi can lower the taxi category of accidents by 91% across the board, including death rates, then that’s a positive improvement to society any way you slice it.

The “if” in this sentence is a load bearing word.

With today’s crew running the policy, I don’t think anyone will prevent corporations from unleashing completely unsafe robotic taxis on the public that’ll perform well worse than regular ones. I really wish people would stop making this argument to the corporation’s benefit until we have some data backing it up.

I get that there’s a theoretical possibility that still imperfect robotic taxis could outperform humans, but that’s just theoretical.

With the way corporate accountability is handled (i.e., corporations aren’t held accountable) nowadays, I just don’t see robotic taxis as much more than an accountability sink and at this point I’d prefer taking regular taxis because at least there is someone to fucking hold accountable when things go wrong.

I think these things are maybe more useful (in very narrow cases) when people realize a little about how they work. They’re probabilistic. So they’re great at bullshit. They’re also great at bullshit adjacent things (quarterly goal documents for your employer for instance). Knowing they’re probabilistic makes me treat them differently. For instance, I wanted to know what questions I should ask about something, and so I used Google AI insights or whatever from their search engine to generate a large list by simply resubmitting the same question over and over.

It’s great at that kind of (often extremely useless) junk. You can get lots of subtle permutations out of it. It also might be interesting to just continually regen images using the same prompt over and over and look at the slight differences.

It would be more interesting to me instead of bullshit like Sora if they made something that just gave you the prompts in a feed and allowed you to sit there and regenerate the junk by hitting a button. People could see the same post and a slightly different video every time. Or image. Still stupid? Yes. Still not worth slurping up our lakes for? Yes. But hey at least it’d be a little more fun.

The prompts are also, for the most part, the only creative thing involved in this garbage.

Instead of the current knobgobblers that want to take a single permutation and try to make it more than worthless, or want to pretend these systems are anything close to right…or intelligent…or human or whatever it’d be much better if we started thinking about them for what they are.

Yeah we all know that calculators are completely useless. 🙄

The UN needs an army or at least a sanctioning body that can do real things.

But it can only good do

In their mind, consumers and employees are totally separate groups.

Which simply, isn’t true? That is where this generation of robber barons seems more short-sighted than the last one. Henry Ford was a prick, but he at least grasped that if his workers couldn’t afford a car, that would negatively affect his company outlook.

I was in a meeting where they went on for two hours about agents. They nor I seem to really have any idea wtf they’d do with them.