AI is a bubble waiting to burst… prove me wrong!

Aug 21 (edited) • Off Topic

Honestly, it's getting pretty tiresome with everyone talking about how AI is going to take over the world.

And all I ever hear these statements from are people who not only have no background in computer science but people who are not technical at all.

AI is a predictive text engine. That is all.

It isn’t conscious.

It doesn’t want anything.

It’s simply predicts the next word in a sentence based on probability.

It doesn't remember all the stuff it is "trained" on or know the whole internet.

That's why it's answers are mostly retarded and it "hallucinates" 24/7.

It doesn't hallucinate by the way it isn't a human being.

It's a fucking predictive text algorithm, you wouldn't talk about any other technology like it's human.

Why? Because you'd look like a fucking retard.

Not only that but we've always had this technology.

The only reason we're seeing it now is because the cost of hardware has come down and people have thrown enormous sums of money at it (more on that in a minute)

But hardware has it's limitations and so does software.

Therefore, unless we fill every square inch of the ocean with water cooled data centres and power them with nuclear power plants were not gonna get much more than what we have right now.

There was once a time where if you wanted your website to load faster you would have to optimise the codebase.

That kind of went out the window partly because hosting became so cheap.

You could just throw your website on a faster server and it would load faster.

This is THE EXACT SAME SHIT.

The AI companies can optimise the software or build a bigger server.

One or the other.

Data centres can't scale infinitely.

Memory bottlenecks.

And the way neural nets optimise themselves is the same way it's been working since the 80's.

We’re already seeing diminishing returns.

Each new generation costs exponentially more to train but the improvements are shrinking.

You see what happens when you load more and more bloat on your phone right?