• NinjaGinga [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        That’s because they crossed the event horizon into such incredible density of wealth it’s impossible* to divest them of truly obscene amounts of wealth.

        *Unless someone does the thing in Minecraft

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          Time is money. Life is basically just how we experience time. We’re not killing the rich. We’re taking away their money. By killing them. Look I don’t make the rules.

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    Whoever started calling this LLM shit “AI” deserves to be shoved in a locker and then dropped into a canal. Techbro dweeb? Marketing ghoul? Some fuckwit internet cretin? I don’t care. Get in the goddamned box.

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    I remember when article spinning was consider blackhat seo. Now it’s a feature of major mouse brands? Lmao.

    The biggest dickheads on the planet took over the tech companies. At least the nerds that originally built it actually cared about it like… Performing a function. None of these dickheads care if they destroy it. They’re not builders, they’re deconstructors.

    At some point along the line software technology companies went from building things into “disrupting” things and that change was essentially the act of going from constructors to destructors.

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    From the blockchain to NFTs to the metaverse to AI.
    I wonder what the next tech marketing fad buzzword will be.

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      They’re going to combine it all into one thing and it’s going to be a colossal waste of money and electricity but they’re going to force it to be a thing for like 3 years until apple recoups 1% of the cost of developing the vision pro

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    this was the peak of product design in the early 00s. “look, we added a brightly colored button whose only purpose is to open up our unoptimized crapware that no one will ever intentionally use. that counts as a feature, and therefore a reason to purchase our product instead of the competitor’s on next shelf”

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    I dont think this LLM in everything trend is going to last very long. It’s way too expensive for it to be in literally all consumer things. I can imagine it finding some success in B2B applications but who is going to pay Logitech to pay OpenAI $30 per million tokens? (Lambda for comparison is $0.20 per 1M requests if you pay the public rate)

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      There will be another massive financial recession when it finally dawns on them this shit was never gonna make any fucking money for anyone

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        The crypto bubble lasted a long time, and unlike it, AI actually does something (not anything useful, or terribly well, but something), so I expect the bubble will last a while yet.

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      I disagree, because I think what will happen is that these companies won’t use “AI” that is hosted in the cloud, but will instead send some minimally functional model to users that runs on their GPU, and later NPU (as those become common), and engage in screen recording and data collection about you and everything the mouse clicks on.
      Disabling AI/data collection will disable any mouse technology or feature implemented after 1999, because AI or something.

      At this point, I think AI stands for “absolute intrusion” when it comes to consumer products.

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        I don’t really see why they need AI for that but yes I imagine companies will want to deploy AI on user equipment. These aren’t going to be nearly as sophisticated or useful as what can run in the cloud though.

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    I love the future and I can’t wait until every aspect of my life within distance of a smartphone or computer is harvested for the benefit of AI generated “content”.

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      I have this grim vision of your phone ai summarizing your posting for the fbiai that will create a summary for the judgeai that will order your neighbors cousin drone striked based on the results of ai terrorist network modelling.

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    This is not a new phenomenon.

    Anyone remember “Turbo” or “DTP”?

    Yes, there was a Turbo-mouse and a DTP-mouse.

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      That’s what I was thinking. The Bixby button lived and died (?) long before I had to start talking about LLMs at work.

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        I’m going from memory. This was before the World Wide Web, when we still used dialup and serial cables, in the early days of the Apple LaserWriter when Aldus PageMaker ruled the world.

        If I recall, the mouse had a high resolution and extra buttons for things like copy and paste. Something about an ergonomic design comes to mind, but I’m not sure about that.

        I think that Byte! Magazine featured a review, but again, I’m going from memory here, this is in the late 1980’s when Desktop Publishing was the future of computing!