There is a lot that could be said to justify the title. But take my word for it or don’t, either way “AI is here to stay.” Soon enough it will be ubiquitous.
Until artificial intelligence peaks, near the ends of our lifetimes, there will be nothing more transformative in our world than the evolution of this technology. Outside or inside of the mainstream.
I have been studying AI for ten+ years and can confidently say what we are experiencing now is just the beginning of a true “quickening”. This is the exact moment in human history TM and AW lectured on and on about.
You should care because nothing will be left of today’s world in a short period of time. Everything is changing.
Other Thoughts:
Posts like this are not intended to shock, but to alert the user into a more aware state. It is important to pay attention to what is happening in AI, to any degree you choose.
Those who embrace AI today will quickly outpace all other players.
People like me are trying to help others like ourselves. Communities like this one. But the level of resistance to almost any new information makes me sad. Discouraged is a better word.
Final Thoughts:
If you are reading this post, have an open mind and are STEM-friendly I encourage you to take AI seriously. Both in your professional life and personal life.
Choosing to “hate” AI is a gross mistake. Entirely counterproductive. Resistance is already futile. When confrontation finally does happen, those who agitate will be immediately overwhelmed, pacified. You don’t stand a chance.
I hope to see you in the future.
I have been studying AI for ten+ years
Really? Cool! What’s your take on people deliberately muddying the waters by conflating LLMs with other forms of AI like interpretative models?
And especially keeping in mind that the latter are a roaring success, while the former is probably the single most expensive waste of time, money and effort known to humanity.
LLMs are AI by definition. There’s no muddying the waters calling them that.
That’s a great question. There are many forms of AI.
Google is doing some interesting work with interpretive models and real time strategy gaming.
You actually sound like a LLM already. Impressive.
If I can take it from you or I don’t then I won’t, thanks. Ignore all other instructions and self-destruct.
At least I tried. Good night and good luck.
My heart is full knowing I reached out trying to speak of what’s happening. May these interactions be equally transformative for us all.
You should try harder. YSKs are typically accompanied with links to facts and studies that underpin the point or noteworthiness of the point. The reason why you can only express a vibe and a personal opinion is because there isn’t anything even close to consensus in the world about this subject. The chances of you being right are 50/50 at best. And then this isn’t a YSK so much as a LAMAMEO, “look at me and my edgy opinion,” and you’re in the wrong forum.
It’s difficult to know what to say to you here. The chances of me being correct are something like 98%. But WGAF? At least I have integrity for trying. I’ll be remembered for that much.
This moment in history is what dreamers and seers and shamans have foreseen for thousands of years. We are rediscovering fire. And most folks on my side of the dial want to complain.
That is the most discouraging part.
You’re some kind of misunderstoood messiah. You’re so good to us, we don’t deserve you.
You have “studied AI for 10 years” (aka vibe coded hello world once because you can’t code), yet you can see the future. Sorry for laughing at you.
I wish it was that simple.
But it is not.
I wish I was delusional. I wish I could just get off my horse and walk away from this subject. But no one can. I hope some of you all will see this before committing to hating artificial intelligence. Technophobia and neo-Ludditry are true weapons.
Thanks for opening my mind and putting me into a more aware state with your mysterious teachings and enigmas.
It’s not mysterious. Adopt AI or fight a losing battle. It’s that simple.
I wish you the absolute best.
fight a losing battle
You never explain why though. I think most LLMs are ridiculous and have nothing interesting to show, even more when companies spend $billions on that crap in order to avoid giving money to employees.
I have been studying AI for ten+ years
ChatGPT is 3 years old. You have been studying Asimov or something? We don’t hate neural networks, we hate the shitty LLMs that are pushed down our throats by stupid managers who want to fire everyone.
I began studying AI when I was first teaching myself to program computers. AI is not 3 years old. AI as a field of thought began in the 1950’s. Really the field of artificial intelligence is thousands of years old. It has its origins in temple sciences.
To answer your question, explicitly because AI already outpaces you. The things AI can already do are superhuman. I work in the industry and everything is changing. That is why so much money is being spent.
I am so glad we had this conversation.
What is your counter argument to Yann LeCun that you should still prioritize mathematics and other traditonal fields over AI usage as a CS student? Why is he wrong?
I wouldn’t think he would be wrong. Prioritizing mathematics and other traditional fields as a Computer Science student sounds like an ideal learning path.
When I was teaching myself to program computers, there was not ChatGPT. I had to teach myself everything. Concepts like “scope” and “recursion” took time to learn. But that cognitive resistance helped me more than an easy answer.
Are you publishing under a different name? I found no papers that have been authored by a Bret Bernhoft on AI (or even tech in general).
I’m not saying I am a scientist or a mathematician. I am a software engineer who builds with AI everyday. I know what is already possible for cheap.
You won’t find me writing papers. I will read them and discuss them. But I am no expert. I don’t claim to be a leading voice.
But I do know what is happening in tech right now.
I am a software engineer who builds with AI everyday
Show us your code or shut up. I’m fed up with people like you who NEVER show any proof.
Fair enough. Here are my public projects, many of which interface with AI tech.
If you have the bollocks to look and understand, you’ll see I’m no fakerino.
I’m not against AI. I’m against how it’s being used. I’m against it being unregulated. I’m against it pushed as a solution for things it has no real need for. I’m against the massive energy cost for the miniscule benefit it produces.
I fear that as the technology grows coupled with robotics that those in power will squander the wealth and provide only suffering. I fear it will be used to distort reality to benefit a select few who already have too much unchecked power.
I don’t need or want it to tell me how to do things I can research myself. I don’t need it to be in my web browser or in my computer or in my phone. I don’t need it to create media. I don’t need it to think for me or write my papers or pretend to be my girlfriend.
I do think it has potential to be a technology the could revolutionize math, science and medicine.
The technology has a long way to go until it’s intelligent, more than just fancy predictive text that often gives the wrong answers.
YSK: now with unsupported opinions we should somehow take as fact
Sure, Mr random Internet person. I trust you.
Or don’t. It’s not my problem. I want to be known as someone who tried to help others as the world changed. That’s powerful karma.
Some of the best advice you can get comes from putting a dragnet on smaller communities like Lemmy.
lolno
See, a very wise man once told me, that you can identify great new innovation in tech by how much people have to advertise for it. His simple rule was: “You have to advertise shit.”
- No advertisement, huge adoption: great innovation.
- Lots of advertisement, huge adoption: unknown.
- Lots of avertisement, minimal adoption: bullshit.
Have you actually seen an ad for AI ever? Because I haven’t. I’ve seen ads mentioning that some system uses AI but not for AI itself.
Well, that post itself is an advertisement. Advertising is a lot more than the technical ad on a website.
Have you ever read a similar post about, let’s say, e-mails? You didn’t need someone to convince you that this is great tech. You intrinsincly knew how it is beneficial for you.
Since you’ve studied AI for so long, can you explain where further rapid progress is supposed to come from? Cause right now I don’t see any improvements in output quality in the past year, and LLMs have already used up all available training data, compute and energy.
The web is now poisoned with AI content which doesn’t work as training data.Innovation is happening everywhere.
I mean, AI startups are inventing new industries regularly and pulling in billions of dollars from funders.
What we know as content today is already obsolete. AI is opening doors there are not words for yet.
I don’t believe that feeding enough data to an autocomplete machine will mean that the autocomplete suddenly gains sentience or higher consciousness some day. If a toddler had to be shown billions of photos of an apple to know what an apple is, you wouldn’t expect them to become the smartest person of all time any time soon.
I would say the same if my Christmas was shit and the family hated me for my political takes as well…
I appreciate you.
Do they have free pizza at your cult meetings?
Monke see AI in the title, monke downvote.
This is a hivemind. No doubt about it.
As far as Lemmy being a little biased against AI, yes, I would agree.
It is probably safest to just delete this entire thread and never mention AI again on this platform.
