Fascism. Apparently.

AND the huge AR/metaverse wave!

Ars making a comeback soon I bet

You know what pisses me off?

My so-called creative peers generating AI slop images to go with the music that they are producing.

I’m pretty sure they’d be up in arms if they found out that an AI produced tune got to the top 10 on Beatport.

One of the more popular AI movements right now is DJs creating themselves as action figures.

The hypocrisy is hilarious.

The AI hype will pass but AI is here to stay. Current models already allow us to automate processes which were impossible to automate just a few years ago. Here are some examples:

• Detecting anomalies in roentgen and CT-scans
• Normalizing unstructured information
• Information distribution in organizations
• Learning platforms
• Stock photos
• Modelling
• Animation

Note, these are obvious applications.

Not a tech bro but have watched a few channels of people who are:

First off a lot of people have jumped on ai in comments. So I will too. But to the question raised - if you are taking about “establishment/established tech bros” and if by ‘jump on’ you mean innovate then I say nothing. If you look at a lot of leading lights in all sort of fields a person often gets one idea and that makes their fortune - and the rest of their ideas are shit. Zuckerburg’s metaverse anyone? This is true of companies too that appear to become ossified. Because, like you know - Widows 11 is orgasmic. So what orgasmic idea will come to the fore from some unknown: it is not possible to say because it will come from the unknown. All the sci-fi of 70 years ago thought it would be talking watches, no one guessed the phone would be the utilitarian tech.

However there are fads and forcing use and so on. So tech bros will jump on whatever is the next fad or thing that is forced into use (implanted microchips for id, 24 hour tracking, payments… social credit scores anyone? I mean its what the mobile phone is doing anyway).

To ai: imo we need to separate general ai, ie Chat GTP, deepseek etc from more narrowly trained ai use cases. The general ai have (almost) run out of data to (freely) train upon: in fact there is a worry that it’s starting to eat itself - that is, ai is consuming ai generated content to train itself (ie mad ai): also the line on the graph is flattening as far as performance is concerned. AI that is trained for specific tasks however I feel is a different animal: think material sciences or cancer research. However in everyday use with a few years I can see you asking for a song that “is heavy with a punkish sound using violins about the folly of using a rotating wire brush as a masturbation tool” and there it is (though is it here now? I can’t keep up). Depending on where these are (freeware, open commons, closed propriety) depends on what happens: Spotify/the music distributors could become totalising monopolies of music, or they could implode. In ten years you could be saying “make a film about a man scarred for life by said wire brush”: sure it’s take days and only be 360p to start ---- to start. Again creative commons or monopolies?

So: “It’s a bit hard” DIY on personal computers, or “easy as the cloud” and marketed and convenient and just pay a monthly subscription: I think we all know the answer - because we are lazy and stupid:

That is why we will welcome the chip into our wrists.

Just like that ridiculous “internet” hype train from a couple of years ago

It will eventually, when people realize it’s just a giant and complex statistical response machine. It’s really just giving you the words and/or set of pixels back that are the usual response to the words you provided. If there was no training data, there would be no AI.

It’s like a parrot, but more complex and requires nuclear power plants to generate enough power to keep it going.

OP here to clarify: With AI Hype Train I meant the fact that so many people are slapping AI onto anything just to make it sound cool like at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if a bidet company slapped AI into one of their bidets…

I’m not saying AI is gonna go anywhere or doesn’t have legitimate uses but currently there is money in AI and everybody wants to get AI into their things to be cool & capitalize on the hype:

Same thing with NFT’s and blockchains. The technology behind it has it’s legitimate uses but not everyone is slapping it onto things like a few years ago just to make fast bank.

I very sadly don’t see it going anywhere because of how much money has been invested by big tech corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Reason they’re willing to put so much money into these corporations is because they’re being built on their cloud infrastructure, which the different AI companies pay for. So either way, they end up getting more money and becoming more influential, even if the AI hype eventually dies out.

AI, in some form, is here to stay, but the bubble of tech companies shoving it into everything will pop at some point. As for what that would look like, it would probably be like the dot-com bubble.

AI is both overhyped crap and a revolution.

I mean much of the hype is warranted I just wish every man and his dog would spare us their personal revelations about it on LinkedIn.

AI is here to stay imo. This is not crypto

Don’t forget “THE CLOUD” and “IoT”