Post AnEGkZJvQaECsmhFBo by llewelly@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AnEBQ1KLbXODtNHCZE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-21T10:09:33Z
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Most people agree that blockchain and AI have been overhyped and their champions have promised more than can be delivered.Yet, both technologies have some valid applications. Both are profligate in their use of processing power, as if we have developed more processing power than we know how to effectively use. (Dubious.) What other "innovations" will we see based on heating up silicone with wanton abandon?I think AI (what we call 'AI') has some future. I don't know if blockchains do.
(DIR) Post #AnEBVFaW0ipzZLKgka by Nikolai_Kingsley@dobbs.town
2024-10-21T10:10:29Z
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@futurebird i have been thinking about an app that just runs your phone at full, so you can use it as a handwarmer. google maps is a good one for this.
(DIR) Post #AnEBe1xi2acruoMtQe by sysrq@lab.nyanide.com
2024-10-21T10:12:07.561322Z
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@Nikolai_Kingsley @futurebird A video call also works.
(DIR) Post #AnEBxuOvrUR0G0a1uC by codefolio@ruby.social
2024-10-21T10:15:41Z
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@futurebird I think AI is here to stay as a better context-specific autocomplete, e.g. non-English-question non-code-review mode of GitHub CoPilot.However, you don't need most of the really intensive server-based giant LLMs for that. A local one with decent (but not amazing) training data is perfectly adequate.
(DIR) Post #AnECHEKPzsedYvgLC4 by ekg@social.librem.one
2024-10-21T10:19:11Z
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@futurebird blockchain can be run with minimal power use, the problem is competitive prof of work. If blockchain used prof of trust the problem of power would go away. My preference would be consensus based prof ot trust, where all stake holders must agree on who will sign the next block.
(DIR) Post #AnECgT0gY1lWKvUBDE by viq@social.hackerspace.pl
2024-10-21T10:23:43Z
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@futurebird while personally I'm strongly against "AI", and pretty much none of the "promised" benefits of blockchains appeared, I've been seeing posts from someone describing how the "AI" greatly helps them with how long COVID affected their brain. "Hey, what was that thing that I can only vaguely describe" or "help me write this email as I'm struggling to find words".
(DIR) Post #AnEDevyrxqu3YwTANE by faassen@fosstodon.org
2024-10-21T10:34:39Z
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@futurebirdMy application for heating up silicone is massively distributed artificial life ecosystems as we really need digital life
(DIR) Post #AnEDxyOXDIZIYFYKCe by RogerBW@discordian.social
2024-10-21T10:38:05Z
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@futurebird In much the same way that alternative medicine that works is called medicine…Blockchains that work are called Merkle trees and similar. The cost is in decentralisation and this doesn't even help because the pools centralise anyway.AI that works is called machine learning and doesn't use the current useless generative algorithms.
(DIR) Post #AnEEqsVIoiZyCytnLU by jannem@fosstodon.org
2024-10-21T10:48:00Z
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@futurebird AI (as neural network based machine learning) has already been deployed for lots of useful applications for years. LLMs are wasteful, of somewhat dubious utility and liable to be a bubble, but it's only one part of a wider landscape of AI tools and applications.Blockchain... I've yet to see an actual use case other than anonymous payment for criminal activity.
(DIR) Post #AnEFpN2yO5hGJLUdSS by DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-21T10:54:40Z
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@Nikolai_Kingsley @futurebird I used CPU benchmarking software on a laptop to warm my room when I had no heating due to a gas leak. I actually kind of wonder how much heating could be done by computers if they were used in place of boilers. I mean, you want to mine Bitcoin? Fine. Just use your central heating system to cool the hardware. It hardly matters how pointless and inefficient the computations are if you'd be dumping that heat into your house anyway.
(DIR) Post #AnEGkZJvQaECsmhFBo by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-21T11:09:17Z
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@futurebird it's worth remembering that the major reason fossil fuels have done so much damage environmentally, is that they are also highly useful; not just for energy, but also for many chemical uses, ranging from dyes to fabric to fertilizer production, not to mention plastic. The useful aspects of machine learning do NOT mitigate the harmful aspects; instead, they amplify the harm.
(DIR) Post #AnEUXBZDpTomo5MdKi by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2024-10-21T13:43:44Z
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@futurebird i don't think LLMs have much future. small language models may still be very handy. the rest of the "machine learning" ecosystem has many uses all over the place. nor do i see much of a future for blockchain. there's nothing it can do that you can't do more easily, faster, and cheaper with out it
(DIR) Post #AnEgdCuewC2wAU1rCi by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
2024-10-21T15:56:58Z
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@futurebird The really irritating thing about the "AI" hype is that what generative LLMs do is legitimately amazing. It's just not remotely what they claim it can do.Like, in a sane world this would be an exciting new technology that was being tested in labs and used for some amusing digital toys, not being touted as a labor replacement for like 10% of the workforce. But here we are.