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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On a wider front, I expect machine learning as a whole will see its funding go down the shitter once the AI bubble bursts - useful ML applications are losing funding in favour of magical chatbots, and the stench of AI is definitely wafting all over it as well.

For an off-the-cuff prediction, I expect the number of AI/ML researchers to steeply drop in the coming years, from funding for AI/ML drying up post bubble, and from researchers viewing the field as too tainted to touch.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

good lord, I barely get to look at the sub for a few weeks and a whole fresh new era of people too short for the ride show up

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

how did they all choose this weekend to find us? it’s like they’re trying to get their bans in before the downtime

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

ADQ any% speedruns

(A = assholes)

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

It will stick around in the form of general use cases, and specially trained sets.

So Boston Dynamics for instance is training their human robots to move like humans based on specially trained sets for instance.

LLMs are good for all sorts of things.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 28 points 3 days ago

Nobody's using datasets made of copyrighted literature and 4chan to teach robots how to move, what are you even on about.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago

That example is more ML and not LLM, no?

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Surveillance algorithms for the Police State. -drops mic

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago

tailored spam, scams, finely targeted propaganda/influence operations, erosion of expertise,

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Unfucking forntunately, gotta go out of our ways to be as confusing as possible.