Aren't these stores money laundering fronts though? Candy cigs are cool but most American candy stores (run by Turkish) are deffo questionable and have allegations of ML on them which most often are true?

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I just realized how dumb it is to play random ass YOLO earnings play calls. On a good call you maybe get a 2x but I am just about to 4x taking Spurs ML against OKC...

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Yes, the compute required for running large models is indeed mind numbing. But it's not like the technology is at a dead end with LLMs. The way I see it, these tech companies are running head-on towards an almost unattainable goal (of making humans redundant) and the exorbitant spending is in this pursuit. We are in a bubble in that regard, and we will go through a lot of pain as a global civilization when the bubble bursts. But the next generation of companies that will emerge will build their empires on the carcasses of these tech giants. Bottom line is, generative ML is useful! But not in the way these tech giants think. Some will perish in this pursuit, and better companies will emerge after that which will have the right use-case for this tech.

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>If there is no money to be made from implementation, this would be the definition of a bubble, which concerns me. There is money to made, just not by replacing all workers to usher in some capitalist's wet dream. The current economic model is inherently unstable in the long run, and an expensive as shit technology like Generative ML (I refuse to call it AI) is adding fuel to the fire of crony capitalism. Generative AI will be useful to humanity one way or another in the coming years. It will be a revolution in every right, but it will not be the kind that the hucksters in Wall Street and the CEOs of these companies might want you to believe.

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I haven't used facebook in over a decade so frankly I have no idea what the comments look like on there. It just struck me as very "how do you do fellow kids." I agree that reddit's gotten more trash as many of the highly knowledgeable people have left because as with any big, generalist system because people gravitate towards and push to the top content they can effortlessly understand. It used to be an audience of enthusiasts and now its not, it is what it is. Eternal september and all that, we ruined the internet for experts and now the internet is being ruined for us. I think some of that is confusion over terms. People hear AI and think chatgpt not building out a CNN to improve quality control. Marketing uses confusion over terms this to try to make people believe that every business is incorporating a genAI chatbot and seeing great returns so you need to buy their chatbot, and since that's easy there's a load of people doing it and thus is highly visible. There's a lot of obvious use-case for ML/AI, but when people are bitching they're mostly bitching about chatbots because that's the AI they both a.) understand as AI and b.) engage with most frequently. And I kinda agree with them about the chatbots.

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