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anothermathbozo

How so?

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When everyday people are telling you their opinions about what AI is gonna do you know it’s a fad.

Every day people were doing that with the Internet.

Yea, and then came the dotcom bust.

Yeah, and the Internet just never recovered!

I wish this whole internet fad would just die already!

Everyday people were talking about iPhone. That was what made iPhone a fad and prevented Apple from being the company with the highest MarketCap.

iPhone was a fad. Everyone and their grandmother had an idea for some kind of app. It was all people talked about, apps apps apps.

Then the market blew up and a few big winners ate up all the profit and everyone else died on the long tail.

Today, iPhone exists, but people don’t even think about them much. They just use it.

Pestering someone now about your iPhone app idea is like pestering someone about your website idea back in 2015.

What you’re talking about really isn’t that iPhone is or was a fad. What’s really happened is innovation has essentially halted and it has become a commodity like all smartphones.

Everyone and their dog keep trying to force me to use their apps, like there's a mantra inside their marketing divisions that apps are the shit. Doesn't look like apps are over. The market is just saturated of "app for X". The hype of getting rich from zero through one app is over, but apps aren't.

VR movies was a fad. You can date a TV by it's "VR mode" feature on the remote to a few years. No one is trying to sell me VR TVs anymore. That's what a fad looks like.

I'd write a script that crawls all these AI topics and use an LLM to count how many times this conversation has been had but I'm too tired to do so lol. Just don't feed the troll / dumb person. If they're too stupid to see how revolutionary LLMs are by this point.. just let them be stupid. Just downvote and move on with your life

We’ll know when it can park a car in an everyday parking spot without messing up your Grandma’s Camry I suppose.

Oh yeah, let's all wait till then to get the value out of models today.

I’m not saying it doesn’t have value, but it’s not worth my time to spend 20 minutes to prompt engineer a tool to write me a plagiarized document I could write myself in 20 minutes? Why would I invest my time into using a tool that undermines my own value? What’s the value prop for me?

Your inability to find value propositions and use cases is your issue.

K, just keep this conversation in mind in a decade or two when you realize that your input is the product, not what you got out of it.

Oh yeah—tell that to my AI pipelines on my local compute.

Local pipelines are great and all for now but there’s practically no way those will be able to keep up with server based models long-term. If those are useful for you today, that’s great.

Right and those "server based models" can be deployed by me or my team, on clusters we own.

You're talking in a thread about Deepseek...

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