That and "disruption" was just going into an existing market, flooding it quickly with cheap prices, and the second you squeeze out competition jack up rates.
It's the same thing Walmart did.
With AI they offer it cheaper than humans because they're burning investor cash and not making money. Once a company fires staff, their next AI contract switches to per token price instead of monthly unlimited.
And then suddenly realizing the "rockstars" that kept their job because they were AI experts, were just sitting at their laptop 8 hours straight constantly prompting over and over again. After that they're paying more than they were before AI with a shittier product and completely unpredictable workflow completely reliant on AI usage.
Hopefully we're reaching the point even c-suite execs figure it out. Once they do it'll pop.
the only problem I see with that theory is that the employee count reduction might let them go below legal limits requiring more bullshit making it cheaper to pay more for Ai than the people it replaced because you have less regulatory nonsense.
Because ‘judgement’ is an inherently grounded ability, something LLMs cannot exercise, fundamentally, only mimic or approximate with heuristics. Sorry but obvious is obvious.
And by all indications LLMs will never be there - its speed of progression towards that has already pretty much ground to halt.
Mind you, you're totally right that they will replace everyone if they can (i.e. if they get their hands on actual AGI), it's just that this tech direction is a dead end and won't get there.
No, I agree with you. Llms are not for this. And we can be both thankful and disappointed at the sme time about it :).
AGI will be abterror to see. Not in a sense of how they will kill us, but in a sense of how fast big corpo will.
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CAWright@infosec.pub · 63 pts · 14d
If you still use meta products, you are part of the problem.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 14d
You’re saying I can help destroy Facebook by using it?
CAWright@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 14d
Yep. Not going to defeat the Nazis by giving them blowjobs.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 14d
That depends entirely on how much teeth you’re using.
CAWright@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 11d
Well, I do live in a meth-y part of the world...
ryper@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 14d
Move fast and break things
No, not like that!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 14d
Techbros didn't even invent that shit.
That and "disruption" was just going into an existing market, flooding it quickly with cheap prices, and the second you squeeze out competition jack up rates.
It's the same thing Walmart did.
With AI they offer it cheaper than humans because they're burning investor cash and not making money. Once a company fires staff, their next AI contract switches to per token price instead of monthly unlimited.
And then suddenly realizing the "rockstars" that kept their job because they were AI experts, were just sitting at their laptop 8 hours straight constantly prompting over and over again. After that they're paying more than they were before AI with a shittier product and completely unpredictable workflow completely reliant on AI usage.
Hopefully we're reaching the point even c-suite execs figure it out. Once they do it'll pop.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 14d
the only problem I see with that theory is that the employee count reduction might let them go below legal limits requiring more bullshit making it cheaper to pay more for Ai than the people it replaced because you have less regulatory nonsense.
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 12d
Being below a certain employee count reduces worker protections
It does not change the cost of the slop (which is currently artificially tiny)
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 12d
do some of those protections not involve expensive machinery (like sawstop saws)?
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d
Wouldn’t something like that be machinery the saw company already owns?
Does slop not involve expensive machinery?
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 12d
mostly thinking if you could shave off the administrative employees (like finance and marketing) you could fall below the limit)
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d
The limit for what?
The bottom line is that AI is both more expensive and less productive than humans for at least 99% of tasks
Sibshops@feddit.cl · 21 pts · 14d
70 percent increase of major incidents. Hmm..
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 19 pts · 14d
Because ‘judgement’ is an inherently grounded ability, something LLMs cannot exercise, fundamentally, only mimic or approximate with heuristics. Sorry but obvious is obvious.
aramis87@fedia.io · 18 pts · 14d
Lmao, isn't that Zuckerberg's motto - Move fast, break things.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 14d
AKA huge mistakes a human would never make.
civ@lemmy.civl.cc · 9 pts · 14d
Awwww they're just like us
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 13d
I haven't seen a robot that could perform any task outside of a stumbling yet well edited/curated video setting.
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 14d
This proves that they will replace everyone - their only "mistake" that the technology is not there YET.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 13d
And by all indications LLMs will never be there - its speed of progression towards that has already pretty much ground to halt.
Mind you, you're totally right that they will replace everyone if they can (i.e. if they get their hands on actual AGI), it's just that this tech direction is a dead end and won't get there.
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 13d
No, I agree with you. Llms are not for this. And we can be both thankful and disappointed at the sme time about it :). AGI will be abterror to see. Not in a sense of how they will kill us, but in a sense of how fast big corpo will.
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d
They can’t do AGI tho. They’re nowhere near being capable of even conceptually thinking about AGI.
They talk like they are to scare their investors into pouring more capital into their furnace, but AGI ain’t happening.
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 12d
I think eventually they will be able to.
Let's be conservative and say 10-15 years?
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d
That’s not conservative my man, it’s delusional
What information are you extrapolating this from? Just vibes?