You’re rooting for a revolutionary new technology to fail rather than get better
As long as the oligarchs who run and own these AI systems are at the helm, yes I’m rooting for it to fail. Better is in the eyes of the beholder. Because come on, we all know better is going to be defined as better for the oligarchs, not you or me.
There’s nothing ‘revolutionary’ about a mass theft machine until EVERYONE IT’S STEALING FROM is getting paid out of the thieves’ pockets for what was stolen from them; and the people that run it make no profit from it. Til then, it’s just business as usual out of the west’s necrocapitalists; and your business makes me vomit.
Is that just a wild assumption, or…? One phenomena that has already been witnessed with AI is that it does in fact get worse if it trains upon it’s own output.
Given that I have locally-run AIs sitting on my home computer that I have no plan to delete (until something better comes along), then yeah, it’s never going to get worse. If all else fails I can just use the existing AI for as long as I want. It doesn’t “wear out.”
The physical components will, and compatible components for older systems keep getting harder to come across. Computers are not immortal entities. Maintenance of older machines will continually become more labour and cost intensive over time.
The models are digital, making copies for safekeeping is easy.
The hardware is a computer, and computers are general-purpose. The kind that run AI models well at infrastructure scale are rather high end, but are still available off-the-shelf.
Is it wrong that I hope it eats itself and implodes?
If it’s wrong, then I’m wrong right along with you.
Why do you feel this way?
Look at my profile for one reason and look at this video for another: Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show
You’re rooting for a revolutionary new technology to fail rather than get better. I’d call that wrong.
If nothing else, AI is never going to get worse than it is now. So if that’s intolerably bad for you then improvement is the only way out.
As long as the oligarchs who run and own these AI systems are at the helm, yes I’m rooting for it to fail. Better is in the eyes of the beholder. Because come on, we all know better is going to be defined as better for the oligarchs, not you or me.
I run my own AI models on my own home PC. Am I an oligarch?
There’s nothing ‘revolutionary’ about a mass theft machine until EVERYONE IT’S STEALING FROM is getting paid out of the thieves’ pockets for what was stolen from them; and the people that run it make no profit from it. Til then, it’s just business as usual out of the west’s necrocapitalists; and your business makes me vomit.
Is that just a wild assumption, or…? One phenomena that has already been witnessed with AI is that it does in fact get worse if it trains upon it’s own output.
Given that I have locally-run AIs sitting on my home computer that I have no plan to delete (until something better comes along), then yeah, it’s never going to get worse. If all else fails I can just use the existing AI for as long as I want. It doesn’t “wear out.”
The physical components will, and compatible components for older systems keep getting harder to come across. Computers are not immortal entities. Maintenance of older machines will continually become more labour and cost intensive over time.
The models are digital, making copies for safekeeping is easy.
The hardware is a computer, and computers are general-purpose. The kind that run AI models well at infrastructure scale are rather high end, but are still available off-the-shelf.