I’m curious to get a general pulse on how people here view the rapid evolution of AI, specifically on lemmy. On one side, there’s growing interest in local open-weights models, self-hosted setups, and practical developer/productivity tools. On the other, there seems to be a growing list, I can’t keep track of, that are seen as major concerns. I’m not here to pick sides or be biased in one corner. Im genuinely curious what people have to say about AI in general. And maybe it will help me and other get a better handle on how we perceived it in our ever changing world.
31·16 hours ago- How come the most memory-inefficient ML model we have ended up being the most powerful one. Can we rewrite the universe so modern advanced AI is based on network inference or ensemble models or sth
- How come AI has taken over the economy, and it doesn’t seem like a bubble (or at least not the crypto type of bubble)
- I’m a bit surprised that the most predominant use of AI/LLM seem to be… as a search engine wrapper. Thankfully ChatGPT is getting better at it, their default model has a built-in search engine integration now. This is kind of important since the company is getting big enough that their model bears social responsibilities…
- I have an asshole-ish work environment where the head honchos only cares about professionalism and efficiency… so I have no shame using AI for work. They don’t deserve my best tbh
- In terms of actual usage for my work, AI outputs can be anywhere from very good to very bad in an instant, and sometimes it’s hard to tell the two apart…
- It’s surprisingly helpful as a primer to help me with things I’m not good at; researching niche information, finding resources
- For personal usage, I’m still hoping that there is a way to work AI into some type of a home automation loop… I haven’t found that sweet spot yet. Maybe it’s just my lack of skill at the moment. Hopefully I can hook together some shitty models with search engine skills (on my own SearXNG) as a semi-useful agent