If your business is selling tokens, it'd be extremely lucrative for you if the whole society relies on tokens to perform basic operations. That's where we're heading to.
Looking at the examples they show here it is making more sense. Also where all the "content" on LinkedIn comes from.
Mostly so that I can know to never apply, because that application process sounds awful and degrading.
Anything else would be a quick bail for me, and I expect over time anyone who hires in disrespectful ways will get the candidates they deserve.
You can believe anything you want. I can also believe that the only thing that has gone up in the last 30 years is billionaires' worth, and amount of idiots saying things they don't know anything about.
I strongly believe this. Don't tell me it's inaccurate.
Because the importance of this is all about perspective. It wasn't like these systems created this information out of thin air. They were trained on something. That means the answers they are giving you have been available for decades. You just needed the know-how to find that information and synthesize the answers yourself. To many of us, it's like going from the old physical card catalogs to a modern digital system that would have seemed like sci-fi to a prior generation too. It's definitely more efficient and easier to use, but people acting like it's revolutionary seem to be suggesting that the old system didn't exist or wasn't usable with a little effort.
So easy , right?? No one needs a machine that can do that automatically over huge amounts of data and that can clearly communicate results in a way the user can clearly understand in their preferred language!
So instead of AI that pretty much everyone can use, we could have had 3 or 4 weeks of business as usual?
Wealth is also only relevant in a capitalistic system, which we invented. It could easily be that all other species never created capitalism and are therefore waiting for us somewere which we will not reach because we are stuck on 'wealth'.
And if we are stuck in a local minimum, it might seem that GPT-2 broke us out of there.
If the current AI bet turns out to not be the next revolution, what’s the plan? What will be the pivot? What happens to all the capex and commitments, the reputation of all the people who promised that was the journey to the holly land? The answer is that there is no plan, AI has to work to justify the system itself. It’s almost a natural result of the economical and ideological system we conceived.
It’s really not that different from blockchains, though at least LLMs have some actual use cases. But there is a complete disconnect between the actual ROI and the vision sold by the AI folks
All this massive massive massive compute can be used for different types of machine learning. Nuclear Fusion physics simulation, neural networks for every other use case etc.
I'm not sure if we needed AI/ML for breaking the memory wall.
But yeah we will see how the society will respond to more and more and more automatisation.
ML/AI/Robotics is for sure the next automatisation revolution.
And packet switched network equipment were much, much, much more simple than their time divisioned counterparts. On the same budget you could run an order of magnitude fatter pipes using ethernet switches rather than ATM switches. That's also why they won.
Simpler and cheaper architecture end-to-end means the same budget can be spent more wisely. That's usually what wins in an open market.
Companies have made their pages as hard as possible to access with automated tools.
People move to agents, if your site is "invisible" to agentic users (no API, no MCP) people won't find it.
Companies start opening up APIs - which lets non-agent users like us create tooling on top of it _without_ agents.
So if someone is looking for a 18V cordless drill for drilling into concrete, they'll most likely ask an agent. If your site has bad AEO/GEO, the product pages are either impossible to read by an agent or the data is badly formatted -> the agent won't recommend your product, resulting in a lost sale.
Like SEO gave us OpenGraph and similar common tools to provide data in a machine readable form, AEO/GEO will force data to be readable by agents.
Some sites like Consumer Reports block all crawlers, so we'll see how that goes for them.
The current istuation could be seen as just the next real frontier technology of the human race.
the problem is capitalism. Instead of leverigng it as a tool, we talk about job loss and restructuring etc. which affects real humans.
In a non capitalistic system, it might just not affect real humans negativly at all only positive
> In a non capitalistic system, it might just not affect real humans negativly at all only positive
Is there a country where a 'non capitalistic system' has been tried now or in the past that you're thinking of?
I'm sure mainframe time-share providers in the '60s and '70s were salivating at the possibility of computers mediating most business tasks, too, completely unaware of the microcomputer revolution that was about to happen.
I don't know how much experimentation you're doing with local AI, but that day may be sooner than you think. The ecosystem is evolving extremely rapidly.
Looking forward to the day this becomes very very easy for the likes of me.
In fact, we're already further along than that in terms of local AI. I'm currently able to get usable results at 8-10 tokens/sec using open-weight models on my laptop's integrated GPU, running on battery power. A $4,000 DGX Spark (less than what an IBM PC cost at launch in inflation-adjusted dollars) can get 3-5 times the inferencing performance with models 3-5x larger.
I get a higher response rate when I include white text on my résumé.
We've seen that over and over again throughout history, and we will see it again it we continue too far on this road.