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Kanaya413 posted...
Wait it has an impact on the environment?
Well you don't seriously think the computing requirement to run these things come from the ether, do you? It's like how cryptocurrency has a notable impact.
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Kanaya413 posted...
Wait it has an impact on the environment?
Uses tons of freshwater for cooling data centers, though now some companies are saying they will or do use AC cooling, but that just further pollutes.
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Unsuprised_Pika posted...
or by being inplememted in healthcare/insurance etc.
What healthcare companies are touting as AI is a fairly simple decision tree. It literally replaces the old physical forms where they ask questions that are followed by "If Yes, go to question 6. If No, go to question 8". A human is still answering those questions

Whoever programmed the decision tree often fucks it up in a rush to market/intentionally lowering approval rates. It's only called AI for marketing reasons.
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Stuff like filling in gaps for animation, straightening lines, correcting code, etc is fine and has been around forever.

Generative stuff is bad, looks bad, and never makes you look good
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Theres a number of genuinely promising use cases - such as expediting academic / clinical research or similarly life-saving or otherwise beneficial-to-all type of
research. Or more general and low-stakes stuff, such as providing easy formatting for documentation and the like.

then theres a LOT of uses that range from an absolutely waste of energy to morally reprehensible. The capabilities of more recent models is really cool conceptually, but I find it impossible to separate the genuinely neat technology from the socially detached and socially irresponsible companies that largely comprise the AI industry. Also much of the people that evangelize about AI are insufferable, especially the CEOs, who seem to delight at the prospect of destroying the livelihood of millions of workers.
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Has great utility but tech bros have been overselling its value and inflating its prices for years. They arent replacing anything other than simple, redundant and worthless white collar jobs.

Nor will it ever be the money maker they sold it as. Especially after Deepseek was shown, and is free. Why even look at anything else?
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Board_hunter567 posted...
The tech itself is neat, it's like the next level of procedural generation algorithms.
The parts where it automates jobs that shouldn't be automated, is marketed and sold as something it shouldn't be, is being rushed and speculated on recklessly in ways it shouldn't be, is using precious resources so it can be scaled at levels it shouldn't be, has forever altered our ability to determine what's real and what's fake, and that there's no going back, yeah that all sucks.
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Amakusa posted...
Well you don't seriously think the computing requirement to run these things come from the ether, do you? It's like how cryptocurrency has a notable impact.
I have no idea how any of it works Im very technologically ignorant
El_Dustino posted...
Uses tons of freshwater for cooling data centers, though now some companies are saying they will or do use AC cooling, but that just further pollutes.
Damn.
Kanaya413 posted...
I have no idea how any of it works Im very technologically ignorant

He's overstating it quite a bit. You can run DeepSeek locally on a decent gaming computer. It's likely your cell phone will be able to run a fairly competent AI locally in the near future.

The actual training is the most energy intensive process. Once it's actually made it doesn't need much energy.
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ssjevot posted...
He's overstating it quite a bit. You can run DeepSeek locally on a decent gaming computer. It's likely your cell phone will be able to run a fairly competent AI locally in the near future.

The actual training is the most energy intensive process. Once it's actually made it doesn't need much energy.
DeepSeek is relatively energy efficient but there are many, many more that aren't.
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It's a neat tool but it's a limited tool. Too many want to pretend it isn't because the limitations aren't fun for the tech people to talk about and executives with dollar signs in their eyes want these things to take the place of more labor than they reasonably can.

I participate in the AI image topics on this board and that's just stuff I'm posting on a message board purely for fun. For any kind of commercial application I feel like you should just pay a human artist since that's better morally, economically, and the end result is probably going to look better.
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I keep hearing it's going to replace a ton of tech jobs. Anyone know how generally?

I work as a DBA and things has been automated and streamlined for us for a VERY long time. I can't imagine an actual AI would be able to replace the human work, though. I see it as a supplement tool and that's it.
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Asherlee10 posted...
I have not seen it replace anyone yet and I'm in tech. I've only seen it help a lot of people in their role by reducing busy work and allowing them to focus on other tasks.
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Its interesting, but I haven't seen a real use for it yet, besides doing a sub standard job at replacing people.
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Asherlee10 posted...
I have not seen it replace anyone yet and I'm in tech. I've only seen it help a lot of people in their role by reducing busy work and allowing them to focus on other tasks.
Yeah but that's how automation normally eliminates jobs. We imagine it as a thing where companies bring in some fancy new machine and everyone who does that job is abruptly fired, but it almost never works that way. The real life situation is usually that machines come in allowing the same or greater productivity with fewer people. So companies gradually bring in more machines and phase out more workers. After awhile, the number of people working has dwindled to a fraction of what it once was.

So chances are, you are seeing it replace people. The process is just more gradual than you think.
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In approx 15-20 years it'll be absolutely incredible at creating generative content and doing a lot of "low level" grunt work for lack of a better phrasing. Right now it's a novelty with way too many kinks to work out.
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Asherlee10 posted...
I'm not saying that won't happen, but it isn't happening in the spaces I'm in because most people have many different aspects to their job. Right now AI is supporting their positions, not replacing them.

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Asherlee10 posted...
Right now AI is supporting their positions, not replacing them.
I don't think it's at the point where it would be outright "replacing" people who are already working there yet, at least not very often.

More common would be something like how there is no longer need to hire for positions since you have 3 people doing the work of 4
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I've never knowingly used it. Never asked it a question, never asked it to draw me a picture, I don't use the answer it gives as the correct answer when I Google something, etc. I'm sure I've unknowingly used it with little things like my phone and any AI that's built into the everyday use of it.

I don't know exactly when, but let's say in 10 years it will be great. For now I'm just not interested.

I also worry about the number of people who trust AI answers. I see it all the time on Reddit. Too many people thing there's no way it could be wrong. I worry it's taking away skills from younger people who are going to grow up dependent on it.

As far as my job goes, I can see pretty clearly what would need to happen in my field for AI to take over my job, but I don't see people moving towards that right now because then architects would be out of business as well.
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Worthless in it's current iteration which is barely moving the needle on "we got off our asses and made software that does a thing" after years of stagnation, sent out half baked into the world with a monumental environmental cost to pump profits.

Interacting with it is borderline painful with how idiotic it is most of the time.
Ive been trying to come up with reasons to use it for our marketing department, and maybe Im just not thinking out of the box enough but I cant seem to think of what to use it for thats not just copying the homework of the below-average student in class so to speak.

I guess summarizing meeting transcripts is good? Maybe agent stuff for scheduling social posts, though theres already platforms like Sprout that handle that. And no way do I want to
use generative for written/artwork content, especially not without major editing on my part.

Being a sounding board for ideas and brainstorming could work, but does anybody here in marketing have ideas beyond that in its current state? Im honesty struggling lol
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Unlike a lot of people here, I hear about AI all the time. My husband has been working on it for a while now (used to be machine learning). Its been going on for years, just keeps changing.

I asked my wife (software engineer for an agricultural company) what percentage of her work she uses AI for and she said 80%. Which is way higher than I expected.
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randy_123r posted...
I'm a software engineer as well, and Copilot has been extremely helpful in explaining code written in languages I'm not too familiar with, like shell scripts.

That's what she is using as well (and some Japanese AI called Answer-kun).
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