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Im just sick of the marketing disguised as concern and doomsday warnings.

I dont know how many people here are old enough to remember, but there was a time when everyone knew that the Internet was going to be big, and they were pouring big money into it, but they couldnt quite say why it would be big, or what a normal non-nerd person might actually need/want the Internet for. So, they decided it was going to be recipes. People used to have cook books and boxes of notecards, old magazine clipping, etc with recipes, and having the right recipe was kind of a big deal, and the Internet was obviously an easy way to solve this problem. Everyone in the world could share the same giant cookbook, any time they wanted, just by paying a modest minutely fee to tie up their home phone line for 20 minutes.

The current AI pitch feels like that, except this time the line is that there might be an extinction level famine because everyone will forget how to cook once they see how great this cookbook is.

I dont know. Not that Lemmy users are necessarily great all the time, but Reddit has decayed to the point that its barely better than a generic Facebook feed.

Graphics are better than ever, but design itself has been moving at a glacial pace for decades.

This would actually be a trade secret, which is something companies lean on when patent law does not protect IP sufficiently. Patents have to be published and eventually expire. Trade secrets never have to be made public, and they can last indefinitely.

I do agree that patent lengths for things like software desperately need to be slashed, but the protections themselves shouldn’t be weakened.

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Ive heard more convincing arguments for an economy based on monkey pictures.

Yea, well we need to make them not suck then.

That doesnt sound like what he said at all. He just said that some AI toy might become a billion dollar trend…which really, making interactive toys should have been the first place these things were deployed. I want game NPCs with dynamic personalities and adaptive reactions. I want games that can handle the player stepping off the map by dynamically new content around them. And if they cant make an AI that can challenge an experienced human at a 4x game without cheating, the whole idea of an AI founding an actual billion dollar company is a pipe dream.

Who the fuck is giving agentic AI access to their credit card? Thats like handing a lit blowtorch to a toddler.

Surely this leopard will not eat my face. When will people learn, hell always, always, betray you eventually, unless you have the tapes.

Many breweries add DHMO directly to their product without disclosing it on the label.

Thats true. Anyone who thinks the bubble popping will make AI go away is kidding themselves. On the other hand, when prices are set more accurately and investors start accepting that they will get diminishing, or even negative, improvement out of the latest model, we may see use cases start to shift to something more realistic.

Not surprising. A generation theyll be a Chinese client state.

The problem with bubbles is not that they deflate, its that they pop.

Addiction. Also, when a heavy smoker first quits their coughing can actually get worse for a while, and smoking will return them to their baseline.

Sometimes these things are also a trap. Someone will deliberately be positioned to make a public opposition stand, just to flush out anyone who would support them.

Animal feed as well.

Probably, but only in retrospect.

Military force kills people and breaks things. The US military is incredibly good at this. Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes is the job of politicians, and the Executive Branch happens to be incredibly bad at this.

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