• Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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    3 days ago

    Altman claimed a need for $7 trillion to really get the job done. When Musk can’t cover the bill, maybe you’re just delusional.

    Microsoft has sent at least $13 billion their way. And got the reviled Copilot for their troubles. They’re pulling back.

    It’s completely absurd to me that as someone who didn’t even finish undergrad, the state of the emperor’s clothes is obvious, yet we’re playing this game of pretending there’s value where none exists. Nvidia is the only winner here. My guess is their shareholders are also going to get fucked without lube sometime in the near future.

    Tablets obviously came to pass, but 2000 was not the correct time with the state of the art (resistive screens, anyone?). LLMs are currently here. I’d imagine we will get to the point of “AI” becoming AI, but it isn’t now. And you can’t will that into being, but at least we’re gutting research funding at the federal level to further gum up the works.

    I tried out Mistral ahead of responding, going so far as to install the app. It’s uninspiring. The tech just isn’t there yet. I asked it about my job search, and it provided suggestions I’ve already been doing for years; upon providing clarification, it spat out more useless obvious things. Is the target market people who’ve never had a job before when asking such questions?

    – sent from my Mulllvad VPN

    • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      I’m loving your commentary on the subject.

      When I mentioned Mistral, I meant their attention to open source. Their new model (Mistral small) can be run on consumer hardware with similar results to ChatGPT if trained on good data. AI isn’t that useful outside of me asking it to write one-liners but I haven’t had the experience you have.

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        3 days ago

        I’m loving your commentary on the subject.

        Having experience as a writer, editor, coder, porn producer, audio engineer and web designer does provide a unique perspective.