• kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I’m also kinda skeptical that this stuff has as many applications as are being touted.

    https://huggingface.co/models

    These models can do a LOT of different things. If you don’t see that, that’s an education problem, not an AI problem.

    And combining these capabilities in new and unique ways are only going to make things even more wild. It won’t be very long at all before my “Ummmmm, I’ll have aaaaaaaaa” order at McDonalds doesn’t need to be taken by a human being and there’s just a single dude in the back running the whole place. That’s disruptive on an economic level never before seen. THAT is why companies the world over are so heavily invested in AI. It’s finally reached a threshold to replace real labor - and labor accounts for one of the largest portions of expenditure for companies. The economics of paying for electricity to run this stuff FAR outweighs what it takes to pay a person for the same output.