Fuck I am! I’m getting adopted by an undiscovered Amazonian tribe. Rest of you fuckers can get all HAL’d.
Interesting vid, just hopping around to the different topics he covers. If the advancements become so great that we achieve singularity in a handful of years, I don't see that transition to a post-scarcity society being a smooth one. I wonder if homesteading will become more mainstream if the economic effects are massive. Great time to be Amish.
I've thought about that in the context of if shit really hits the fan us rural folks with a bunch of Amish neighbors will be in much better shape to survive. You city folk are fucked.
Pretty much. I recall reading an anecdote about how the math responses to questions fed to ChatGPT have degraded based on people's up / down votes of the answers. Apparently, you can gas-light AI. I do like it for coding Nodejs scripts quick and dirty, but they're rarely right the first time. I'm in health tech and everyone is screaming about how AI is going to change the world in health. It will, at the research level for sure. At the daily work level, it's got a ways to go. There's so much information in so many formats that it's incredibly difficult to normalize into something you can feed a model to spit out valid results. I've seen patients with over 2000 individual documents and some of those docs are hundreds of pages. Some are images with no text, some are barely legible scans of scans. Feeding all that into a ML model to get a quick summary would be nice. We're not there yet. Neural network models on stuff you can normalize like study results vs patient demographics and other diagnosed conditions is easy to do. It's just logic:
This is the tech industry MO. We are going to distrupt the industry. Few years later the company is nothing more than a fart in the wind.
I don't know if it's the case but there is a certain Y2K 'impending vibe of doom' about this latest frenzy....
The "impending vibe of doom" isn't coming from technologists about the technology, it's coming from the people working for the suits that think that they can replace their workforce with generative AI and the fear of being a line item on a spreadsheet that ends up with them getting laid off. The tech itself is very cool when used appropriately, but most implementations severely lacking but a lot of C-Suite are lacking vision when it comes to these tools. I've spent my career in the startup field and part of my last role was working with startup founders to mature their organizations, and chat regularly with many of them about this. The smart business owners that are succeeding with generative AI are using it as a tool and a force multiplier, not a replacement for their workforce. The not smart ones are looking at their marketing department and thinking they can replace them with midjourney or Sora. Besides, most "AI Startups" are just an API wrapper around ChatGPT, and I swear to fucking god if I see one more renewal come around with a vendor offering a "AI Copilot" for a 75% up-charge I'm gonna lose it.
Hank Williams Jr’s country boy can survive becomes a reality… finally bring it! I would absolutely love it!
While the rest of you deal with the city slickers, I'll be hiding out back. When the commotion dies down, you can find me sitting on a sack of seeds from the wildwood weed.
I’ll be right there to your northwest just a bit my fellow Appalachia survivor hell I’m the first gen born away from down home… can’t wait to get back… for good would be wonderful
