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TBF, as someone else pointed out, people may click on up or down accidentally.
Also, sometimes there have been rather....hot takes. For instance, I've just asked the question about why AI data centers seem to be the one issue that galvanizes resistance, and that question was downvoted like a mofo, LOL.
Seems like resistance to AI is religious here for some reason.
Usually I would write "almost" on such issues, but it's so bad I can't in good faith call it only almost.
I think it's because most people on Lemmy are technologically literate enough and over exposed enough to AI that's it's basically reached a stage where banning it is the default opinion. Personally I just think it's a stupid waste of resources and want these fucking LLM companies to all go bankrupt.
100% with you on that. In 2000 I personally predicted that AI would approach human intelligence around 2030, but I never dreamed it would be this useless.
I'm a bit astonished that I nailed it so closely, it was purely based on estimating the compute power available, and that software would progress together with that. And the estimated power of AI at the time considered to be around the level of a bee.
But I must say I'm disappointed in the application of it, and the crazy raze to invest in and ~~monetize~~ (attempting to monopolize) it. And how both capable and stupid it is at the same time.
Honestly it being vaguely on par with the average person is in my opinion more of a statement on how fucking moronic the average person is than anything else, I'd quote George Carlin but that particular quote is pulled up so frequently so as to be repetitive so I won't. Regardless I wouldn't really call this current outcropping of chatbots to be AI but instead that they are VI or virtual intelligence close enough to trick most people on first contact but once you pick it apart enough you can figure it out quite fast. Though even then it's still on the rather primitive side of the theoretical range
The sad part is that there are some bits of tech that started popping off around when this shit started to get popular that does have some really awesome potential such as acoustic diagnostics for machine or those systems that can detect cancer formation months or even years before a doctor could manually detect it. The thing is that while some of these systems may use language models or learning algorithms they basically have no overlap with shit like Chatgpt or Claude, but will almost certainly be hurt when the AI bubble pops just because they share some terminology.