wait, what if we created a neurotechnological device powered by AI that'll read your mind and speak to people instead of you?
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No, the better solution is to add more black bars to the side so that it fits on to a wide screen.
Wait, what if are made an AI that was also a blockchain based NFT? We could scam so many venture capitalists
We'll verify every state of the neural network on the blockchain, for reasons, all of them good ones. It'll pay for itself by allowing people to invest and buy those unique states. :v
Talk about improving our synergies!
Gotta chase that Alpha!
In the metaverse!
You mean "innovate greatly", right? /s
Okay, but, devils advocate:
What if I'm a billionaire trying to crush the working class and accelerate climate change and political division so the class war doesn't pop off before i can get to my climate bunker?
Or a billionaire fascist who wants to sloppify everyone's brains and increase alienation while annihilating interiority so people will become docile and the class war won't pop off and we get the 1984 timeline?
Or a billionaire asshole who wanted to murder a concept and settled on 'truth'?
Or a really big 'infinite jest' fan?
So "ai" has a lot of use cases. Maybe dont be such a reflexive reactionary fucking Luddite piece of shit about it.
That’s the thing, AI is an exceptional propaganda machine. Blockchain isn’t really exceptional at anything - it’s just a reinvention of the wheel.
Blockchain solves a specific problem: safe transactions without a trusted authority.
It has a lot of downsides to solve this problem without a trusted authority, so in any case where you can use a trusted authority (for example a central server) it's much better to use that instead of a blockchain.
So everyone who added blockchains to their projects gained all the downsides while never having the problem it was meant to solve in the first place.
AIs, and I assume you meant LLMs with that, are a different breed. LLMs are new: never before could a computer handle natural language to such a degree.
Problem is, that it's still new. So no one knows what the "killer applications" are or what monetization should look like, or what the laws about it will be.
People just throw every against the wall and see what sticks... And hope for AGI/ASI and to be on the side that rides that nearly infinite potential to the moon.
Or, you know, crash and burn in case AI reaches a wall/diminishing returns/systemic problems that can't be fixed.
We will see.
I think semantic search could be a use for it, except our corporate overlords won't give that for us, as that wouldn't be as futuristic as a "talking computer".
Blockchain is an adequate solution to a problem that already has other, cheaper solutions.
AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information). Unfortunately, all the money is in that solution being applied to problems where it's not adequate (content generation, user interaction).
AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information).
Sentiment analysis machines and such have been around before LLMs and eat much less electricity.
LLMs taken over the "AI" label so much that any success from a machine learning context is attributed to it, while it actually defunds and kills research out of ML all into LLMs.
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Even I know that.
A surprisingly high number of techbros doesn't though.
Tech bros using every buzzword to sound smart after they just lost tousands
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Is there any way we can get this slide on the block chain?
Can someone explain this joke in programmer terms?
I just wrote an AI that is trained to classify image patterns and automatically creates bitmasks based on the pattern distributions. We tried k-means clustering and got garbage. How would I have done that without AI?
The current hype trend is to build a lazy web UI around a general agentic AI and calling it a day.
What you're doing is more similar to what established firms were already doing with machine learning 5 years back.
Yeah, the joke is that every company is trying to ram LLMs and Agentic LLMs into everything without thinking about what they're trying to accomplish. Like the trend with blockchain a decade ago.
Yours is a valid use case for ai. That's why it doesn't fit the meme.
Thanks. That sounds more like a joke aimed at non-programmers about people who think they're programmers. If I'm willing to ignore all the valid use cases of AI, I guess it might be funny to assume that none exist.
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I thought we were doing ai now
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