e: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24249770/microsoft-three-...
There's all manner of insane, ambitious things being worked on in the open right now, if you are able to muster the discernment necessary to ignore the natural, unavoidable pile of grift that follows any new technology or hype cycle.
In many ways, the amount of money being put into cryptocurrency is antithetical to its development
And in your opinion, these are...?
With AI, I don't even know where to start. Have you used the internet recently? We have multimodal transformer models which can input and output images, video and text. We can create music and images using diffusion techniques. We have world-class text generation systems, which of course still need a lot of infrastructural support, but the viability is already being proven. We have cutting-edge translation tools which blow anything previous out the water. We have code generation and introspection tools, which work well enough to majorly augment my engineering workflow. We are developing ways to "speak" with your data, turning natural language into advance query, analysis and synthesis tasks. We have neural radiance fields. Lip syncing and voice translation tech to automate localization in powerful new ways.
And we have open models! Anyone can dive in, fine-tune a model and get viable results today. We can already start creating new pipelines today, so that we aren't wasting our time doing that once models get better at not hallucinating. The individuals and organizations who wait for this new technology to be perfectly reliable will get left in the dust by those who took the chance and did the pioneering work.
This is still barely scratching the surface. It seems like there's at least one ground-breaking paper a month, often more than that. It's certainly easier to bash these technologies and communities from afar, but that attitude will only hinder you in the future once the tech has caught up. What we have already created through experimentation just since 2015 is stuff that I grew up reading about in science fiction.
Could we hit an AI winter instead? Will decentralization ultimately be a dead end? Maybe. But it would be considerate to not bash those who are spending time and money to find out, and to not let grifters whom they cannot control co-opt the space and the narrative around it.
hysterical. exact same shit as always, folks
Music generation is just mangled music from some popular band with custom lyrics, how can you think that you are creating something here?
But still, there is a major difference between AI and Bitcoin. With AI, the more power we put in the more we get out. That might be in the form of more accurate output, longer output, or larger context windows. With Bitcoin, more power going into the calculations just makes the calculations harder so the amount of useful work stays exactly the same. The calculations themselves have no use other than to waste time and power.
