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Indeed, no one will use AI in two years and the fanboys will be fired. Amazon, Google and Oracle sharply down again today due to clanker overspending.

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I'm a physicist and there is approximately zero chance no one uses AI in two years unless we're all dead. It's a world class mathematician and expert software developer with the capacity to research papers 100x faster than I can, which has given me (like most scientists, an okay programmer at best) to be able to test vastly more ideas and find useful papers etc far faster than I ever could before.

I'm guessing you don't have any tasks in your life that involve coding, math, science, or law if this is your view.

Interesting! Do you want to tell us how you do research with AI, and what your workflow is? I've thought about using AI to research papers and find ideas more faster.

Is this sarcastic or authentic cope? I don't understand how people can still be in denial about LLMs this late in the game.

Because you head is firmly stuffed, fingers in ears, in to the software world and you're unable to process the fact these frontier models have barely any use in real life outside of generating code.

Never mind these technologies having improved exponentially for four years, being able to hill-climb basically any domain you can describe as a goal in text?

> barely any use in real life outside of generating code.

Reverse-engineering code.

Finding vulnerabilities.

Reviewing specifications.

Barely any use outside of generating code and doing other code related stuff*

Good thing code can do a lot of things then huh?

Of course. Code can do all sorts of things. Huh?

Yes, fight! you may win in the end. Who knows, right?

of course it's authentic. the folx with good politix live in a carefully curated reality where everyone agrees with them or gets silenced.

there's thread on the front page of reddit right now, the usual drivel with a literally who on twitter snarking about 50B spent on Iran war instead of free healthcare. those who'd committed the thoughtcrime of dividing 50b by 342m and suggested that 146 bucks per person doesn't buy much healthcare are downvoted into oblivion.

ai is simultaneously taking everyone's jobs and a bubble that's about to burst.

russia is simultaneously a bankrupt paper tiger on the brink of total collapse and the greatest threat to mankind on the brink of invading every wholesome democracy on earth.

etc etc.

> those who'd committed the thoughtcrime of dividing 50b by 342m and suggested that 146 bucks per person doesn't buy much healthcare are downvoted into oblivion.

I suspect the criticism isn't as absurdly narrow that ALL we have to do to get M4A is swap out the war funding. It's probably people pointing out that the govt wastes plenty of money on immoral and useless things, of which the Iran war is an example.

> Google

Is it not because they have been enshittifying Search for over a decade, then recently lost their de-facto monopoly on Search due to LLMs, with no good new product to show for it?

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