Do the engineers get to see a proportional return on this?
I used to have respect for those people, but now I just see them as suckers aiding the enemy.
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How can it slow down? To get investment, every company has to at least claim to use AI. My company measures and ranks people based on their use of Gemini. It hasn’t made it into our performance reviews yet, but there is shaming for not using it. “Come on, we’re paying for it, make use of it”. I haven’t even figured out how to make good use of it in my normal routine. Which is legitimately 75% meetings. Maybe I need to send bots to meetings.
Legitimately, bots for meetings is the one place where it's largely useful. You can have it just summarize what was said. That and receiving emails, which people are using AI to extend for no damn reason so other people have to use AI to read them.
It really depends on the kind of meeting or why the meeting is being held.
I guess it's fine if you are just being talked at for the entire meeting and there is no expectation for your input (but at that point maybe this meeting could've just been an email?).
Gemini, please pretend to work for me while I do actual work. Be sure to generate stats that boost OKRs.
Bots to meetings you say. Strokes beard and adjusts monocle Tell me more about these meeting bots.
People at my office have a bot attend meetings. AFAIK it does speech recognition and generates notes from the meeting. Sembly maybe? I'd have to look again to be sure.
I suppose that is the ultimate test if the meeting should actually be an email.
I mean it makes sense, just a little dystopian though.
Any "meeting" where it's one person talking and everyone else listening is really more of a presentation, rather than a meeting. I cant see an AI bot engaging in a meeting (in any meaningful way).
Useful as a addional member to take meeting notes and provide transcriptions or even translations, but I don't see how it can replace someone who actually has to converse with others in the meeting and make decisions based on information they bring to the meeting.
Same where I work. Metrics are coming for how much we leverage AI. So annoying.
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How do I short Nvidia so I can cash in on the bubble’s inevitable burst?
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
TSLA proving that it's all fucking smoke and mirrors. Sales down in every country, +10% every other week
Oh, the market can stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent. You are way better off betting on companies you believe have a bright future ahead.
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the market valuation of the thing might be too high at the moment, but the thing itself is not slowing down and it's probably not going away.
when the bubble pops there will be a value adjustment, and some companies will go out of business. but AI isn't slowing down any time soon.
i think the only thing that would slow down nvidia is another company making chips.
Amd and Intel right now
Also x86-64 is long overdue for a challenger. ARM is making huge leaps but with so much infrastructure and industry already on x86-64 it's hard to to make a competitive chip that isn't a cheap soc for a smartphone or iot thing.
Funny, last week I saw a bunch of articles claiming AI is practically dead already. And now this?
Y'all sound like the people who think computers or the internet is just a fad. Shit like this is here to stay, wether you like it or not.
Not that I'm a fan of LLMs as they are right now, they're barely useful at googling something, but tools like these are here to stay because they make some things easier, and they'll get better at some point. Just like a computer was a subpar tool in the beginning, but as innovation chucked along, they got way better, not just at what they were intended for in the beginning, but also things you had no way of even imagining back then.
Two things can be true. AI is here to stay, and we're in a bubble. Look at the dot com crash, the bubble super popped, yet we still have the web.
Its not the AI tech thats gonna die, it's its extreme overvaluation.
Really? Companies are going to keep building datacenters that need entire nuclear reactors to themselves without any of that converting into revenue? This is going to keep going forever in your mind?
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Shit like this is here to stay
Of course. Just like VR, AR, the Metaverse, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and hundreds of other boom-and-bust, hype-cycle remnants. "AI" is a bubble. "AI" will burst. The tech will continue, just without the hype and the cohort wildly over-funded moonshot start-ups.
I look forward to the day when ROI-focused tech executives aren't trying to cram non-intelligent LLMs into roles where they do not excel. Let people find their own uses, on their own terms for these things. Perhaps someday people will train bespoke, subject-specific ML tools on their laptops in a matter of minutes with a single click, and it will be an unremarkable part of their day. I'd like to see that.
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