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Has generative AI peaked?2024 Dec 7 Ed Zitron is an internet person leading the charge in calling out "AI" bullshit for the bullshit it is. He may be a little too fervent and certain than I'd feel is warranted, but he has been consistently calling foul on the whole generative AI malarkey ackamarackus for a good long while now, pointing out such basic problems as: hallucinations are a fundamental aspect of the technology and cannot be prevented, nobody is even close to turning a profit on any AI-based product, new versions of the AI core engine don't significantly outperform old versions, and there is no additional data left in the world on which to train the models.
But in his own words, snipping from the linked article:
Sam Altman [OpenAI CEO and known liar] has grown rich and powerful lying about how GPT will somehow lead to AGI, but at this point, what exactly is OpenAI meant to do? The only way it’s ever been able to develop new models is by throwing masses of compute and training data at the problem, and its only other choice is to start stapling its reasoning model onto its main Large Language Model, at which point something happens, something so good that literally nobody working for OpenAI or in the media appears to be able to tell you what it is. ...
The revenue isn't coming. The products aren't coming. "Orion," OpenAI's next model, will underwhelm, as will its competitors' models, and at some point somebody is going to blink in one of the hyperscalers, and the AI era will be over. Almost every single generative AI company that you’ve heard of is deeply unprofitable, and there are few innovations coming to save them from the atrophy of the foundation models. ...
I also want to be clear that none of these companies ever had a plan. They believed that if they threw enough GPUs together they would turn generative AI – probabilistic models for generating stuff — into some sort of sentient computer. It’s much easier, and more comfortable, to look at the world as a series of conspiracies and grand strategies, and far scarier to see it for what it is — extremely rich and powerful people that are willing to bet insanely large amounts of money on what amounts to a few PDFs and their gut.
Unfortunately, Zitron ends the article by highlighting Bluesky, saying they're "selling an honest product and an open protocol" – except that Bluesky is backed by Cryptocoin scammers, so he's sacrificing credibility by either not knowing this or being a Cryptobro himself.
Even still, his description of Generative AI as a bubble rings true. While the technology can pull of some damn impressive feats, the actual usefulness of said feats has yet to manifest.
Ed Zitron is an internet person leading the charge in calling out "AI" bullshit for the bullshit it is. He may be a little too fervent and certain than I'd feel is warranted, but he has been consistently calling foul on the whole generative AI
malarkeyackamarackus for a good long while now, pointing out such basic problems as: hallucinations are a fundamental aspect of the technology and cannot be prevented, nobody is even close to turning a profit on any AI-based product, new versions of the AI core engine don't significantly outperform old versions, and there is no additional data left in the world on which to train the models.But in his own words, snipping from the linked article: Unfortunately, Zitron ends the article by highlighting Bluesky, saying they're "selling an honest product and an open protocol" – except that Bluesky is backed by Cryptocoin scammers, so he's sacrificing credibility by either not knowing this or being a Cryptobro himself.
Even still, his description of Generative AI as a bubble rings true. While the technology can pull of some damn impressive feats, the actual usefulness of said feats has yet to manifest.