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   Matrix9180 :ruby: :rust: (matrix9180@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 12:57:47 JST Matrix9180 :ruby: :rust:

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs it can be a decent enough tool in the right hands but nowhere near AGI and dangerous if you don't wield it properly. Way over hyped.

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs ex. It's done a decent enough job at some simple code and definitely saved me a few minutes here and there, but I can already program and actually review the code it generates to make sure it's sane. People with no experience thinking this is going to let them build apps without a dev team are in for a rough time.

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs agreed. The level at which companies are shoving "AI" into everything is all hype and will fizzle out.

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     Dan Hulton (danhulton@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 13:27:55 JST Dan Hulton

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Yeah, it's wild. I work for an "AI company", but one that's been around since before the LLM hype and that uses a wide variety of computer intelligence tools to solve legitimate problems and not in a way that costs jobs.

     And every time people ask what I do nowadays, I have to add "but not like how you think!" really quickly before people start giving me the stink-eye.

     It's the crypto "fool's gold rush" all over again.

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     vashbear (vashbear@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 14:47:18 JST vashbear

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     Same as it ever was: Follow the money.

     The sad truth is only "AI" (those are air quotes) investments are getting new capital investment now.

     And really, there is no I in AI. Its just good old fashion pattern matching -- but at an incredible scale that was not possible until CPU/data storage/network speed became cheap enough and fast enough.