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To be fair, crypto only enabled scams, NFTs imploded because of how useless they are and the metaverse seems like a dystopia to most people. AI on the other hand has changed the way I do my job significantly. It's not just a promise, it's a genuinely powerful tool.
cryptos amazing, I can pay people without President Donald J Trump having access to my payment records online
Its not just ___ its ____.
But fr, in academic fields its certainly helpful to have super human pattern recognition. In most fields, however, its just slop generation. Creative fields and now even code are being flooded with garbage and I dont think we'll be able to fix it. Sure, some places are benefiting, but on the whole its just a massive black hole of hand-holding and flooding that we'll be cleaning up for decades.
That is true job security. Being able to undo everyone else's screwups. Such work kept me gainfully employed for 45 years.
"It's not just a promise, it's a genuinely powerful tool."
Methinks you've spent too much time with GenAI LLMs or are a bot yourself. "It's not x, it's y"
I don't know, it's probably save me a couple hundred hours so far. Maybe more. It is genuinely incredibly powerful for coding (When used correctly)
Sorry, complete non sequitur, is the Hyperion in your username a Dan Simmons reference?
As is a hammer. The issue is when you treat the solution to every problem as a nail.
LLMs are also great scam enablers.
If LLMs weren't a tool to extract knowledge from people and dumb them down while preventing them from accessing wealth and they were environmentally sustainable, then I could see them as a useful tool. I don't want to boil the planet so that an LLM can generate the minutes of yet another unnecessary meeting, I want not to have to hand in minutes of unnecessary meetings.
The metaverse twist was certainly useless and realized in the most uninsipred soulless way, but vr otherwise has some utility and can be entertaining to a niche.
AI as so far realized has some utility, but a handful of asshats are similarly supremely obnoxious about it, and in my experience way more people are being obnoxious about it than it is useful.