With the wafers used for RAM being gobbled up by AI...I wonder how this will affect Fractal and the Axe Fx 3 and possible 4?

Once humans realize that there will be few jobs left for them should AI and androids replace them, perhaps humans will finally demand that this rush to destruction be stopped!
 
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All this work trying to make better, smarter machines. It's a shame we gave up on making better, smarter humans.
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Unfortunately, any efforts in that direction will be quickly labeled as quackery, no matter the evidence to the contrary. That's unfortunately part of the human defense mechanism.
 
I was at the dentist the other day and they used an AI tool for a second opinion on my x-rays. I thought that was pretty cool and a and a good use case for AI. For second opinions, checking people's blind spots and so on. But I don't need AI in my text message app, in my web browser, on my desktop what I'm doing hardly anything. I think there is a bunch of use cases for AI in specific industries but trying to market it to every man woman child and dog is never going to pan out. Reminds me of when Mark Zuckerberg was insistent on pushing the metaverse, especially when we were coming out of covid and everyone was craving in-person interaction.

So many solutions looking for a problem
 
Yeah, the whole forcing ai into every single product now is just a trend/fad that won't last. It's just the new trendy buzzword. I mean they're even slapping the AI label onto golf clubs now! lol

AI will stick around, but just in the background of things and we won't even notice what it is doing most of the time in a few years.
 
AI can only sort thru, amalgamate, and synthesize with what's already cryptically recorded by humans in the internet (+ a lot of incorrect human gibberish AI can't necessarily id as such) - that's a handy dandy tool tho intermittently + unpredictably unreliable - not intelligence - "nothing new under the sun". There are infinite numbers of not necessarily mathematically / logically yielded permutations / combinations of problem solving ideas and judgements needing to be mobilized in any given discipline that only true human intelligence can provide. We are fooling / harming ourselves if we think relatively dumb ass A"I" is up to the task - but we seem collectively intent these days on replacing genuine human intelligence / judgement / competence capabilities with artificial "intelligence" (or just plain ole stupidity).
 
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My contribution to this thread is probably too morbid but the only solution that is going to work since we're too far gone is a reboot.

Then again would it repeat if repetition was possible after a reboot?
 
Well, I'm just glad the world weighed in on the idea of eugenics in World War II, and that most people aren't cool with it, to this day. We could work on increasing access to better education, ingraining critical thinking skills, teaching emotional intelligence, and practicing empathy instead. Frank Herbert and plenty of other novelists have gamed out their own ideas of the end results of an AI dominated mankind, and it's not great.
 
The problems with LLMs aren't that they're going to somehow get smart enough to overthrow humans or any of that sci-fi bullshit.

It's that these things give humans permission to stop thinking. The machines won't get much smarter, but humanity as a whole is gonna get a whoooole lot dumber.
 
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The problems with LLMs aren't that they're going to somehow get smart enough to overthrow humans or any of that sci-fi bullshit.

It's that these things give humans permission to stop thinking. The machines won't get much smarter, but humanity as a whole is gonna get a whoooole lot dumber.
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Well, in Frank Herbert's idea, it's not that machines enslave people, it's that people who own machines enslave other people with their machines. I'm sure there are a lot of sci fi versions with a lot of plausible nuance.

Already job seekers are altering resumes to be favored by AI, and teachers are having to become experts in spotting fake papers. It's a real concern among students that they're competing with anyone willing to have an LLM write their work for them. The only real growth in the US economy is in the AI data center building industry. The path has started for those using AI to dominate everyone else.
 
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The only way that's possible is if people stop thinking for themselves in large enough quantities.

Which, I guess if you look around... that's basically what's happening.

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I agree with you to a point, but I think what's happening with AI being used to sort resumes is a great illustration of how it plays out. It doesn't matter who you really are, how much value you can add to an organization; it's what AI has determined. So in that illustration it's the hiring manager who ought think for themselves, but the reality is that all those people applying are just cogs in a wheel, polishing their language to appeal best to a machine. A job seeker can't be saved by thinking for themselves, other than to start their own firm. And the ability to do that rests on a ton of other factors that preclude many honest, earnest, hard working people.
 
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So in that illustration it's the hiring manager who ought think for themselves, but the reality is that all those people applying are just cogs in a wheel, polishing their language to appeal best to a machine.
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One thing that's been made very clear in the past 2-3 years is how little sovereignty even the most esteemed leaders in business have. They have to talk up how they're using AI in order to appease whomever has them by the balls (their boss, their board, VCs). In a sense, they're not very different from you or I there: they have responsibilities to someone above them and they have to answer to them. (Of course, they probably have a lot more money, but way less intellectual freedom than we do!) Very, very few people seem to be able to speak honestly about it.

State of Epicicity said:
A job seeker can't be saved by thinking for themselves, other than to start their own firm. And the ability to do that rests on a ton of other factors that preclude many honest, earnest, hard working people.
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Necessity pushing people into starting their own businesses is good even if it is way more volatile. It's not like the job security of yesteryear is there. Friendly reminder we're discussing on the forum of a small business started by a dude who decided he could make computers emulate tube amps pretty well, and just kept at it for 20 years. ;) The world's a better place because of that.
 
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