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Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.

[–] Womble 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main difference is that crypto was/is burning huge amounts of energy to run a distributed ponzi scheme. LLMs are at least using energy to create a useful tool (even if there is discussion over how useful they are).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also 🙂