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  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSuperb cool
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    3 days ago

    And keep in mind there weren’t just large beasts, but small ones as well. People tend to focus on the big ones, because they are most impressive, but they came in the full range of sizes. Just imagine how alien our planet looked compared to what we are used to now.





  • I also like how a lot of that Western investment hinges on the companies having the best model and keeping it secret so they maintain the lead. China (or others) only needs to release a good enough model as open source in order to invalidate the entire business model.

    Not that this matters much, those companies are so focused on showing any kind of progress, they bin their own models way before making back even a fraction of the investment. Only for customers to go meh any time a new one releases. Or have it be a little bit better, but much more expensive to run.

    It would actually be funny, if it hadn’t raised prices on anything tech related and will probably crash the economy any day now.


  • Agreed, this is exactly what reinforcement learning and neural networks are good at. Calling them AI is beyond dumb, but hey marketing will be marketing. It’s pattern recognition, which is cool, but nobody would call that intelligent otherwise. Another big issue with the marketing is they only report on the success rate and not the failure rate. Doctors praise the cases being caught, but dislike the models pointing out stuff that is clearly not a tumor. It wastes time for people already short on time. These models also risk doctors becoming over reliant on them, even though they can have serious blind spots and thus miss stuff a doctor would have caught. Or the other way around, have people receive treatment (often not without risk, discomfort and cost to the patient), where none was needed. The thing that bothers me the most is how it’s always framed as a win for AI. Like see AI is good at diagnosing cancer (which then gets extrapolated to curing cancer for some bizarre reason), so that useless chat bot is also good somehow. Because AI.






  • To be fair, there is a whole lot more to selling software than just making it. There’s this myth out there if you just build the right software at the right time, success is guaranteed. But in reality all of the success stories from the past had many competitors, often with better made software. There’s many factors that go into it, luck is a big factor and upfront cash is also a big one (especially nepotism is a common theme).


  • I do hope this bubble pops, but this kind of reporting is pretty useless. It’s like all those Tesla stock posts we got last year. They report every time the stock goes down, even when the overall trend is the stock going up.

    Nvidia is still up 28% from last month. Amd is up almost 60%, Oracle is up 20% and CoreWeave is up 41%.

    When looking at 1Y these stocks are up as well. These stocks have gotten a big boost this month, so a correction isn’t that big of a deal.

    The markets are absolutely insane at the moment. We are in the middle of a huge energy crisis, one that hasn’t even shown its true face. Yet somehow the stocks are up. There’s more unrest than ever before, the spending power is down, the trust in the economy and future is down. Yet somehow stocks are up. All this AI nonsense is at spending levels it’s just a straight up money pit, even the best projections for revenue (let alone profit) can’t make back the money spent. Yet somehow stocks are up. All of these circlejerk investments and ghost datacenters scams are going on. Yet somehow stocks are up.

    The stock market has fundamentally broken and isn’t really an indicator of anything anymore. To paraphrase an idiot: Stock goes up, stock goes down, you can’t explain that.