Dave Rahardja
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Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

I’m more certain than ever that the first quarter of 2024 will see a grand reckoning for companies that have bet big on #AI. As I said before, I predict a lot of CFOs getting sticker shock at their compute bills, and we will see pivots and downscaling of expectations across the industry. By the middle of the year, there will likely be a general cool-down as users and investors come to grips with what “AI” can realistically do at reasonable cost (hint: not as much as the hype claims). Strategically deploying smaller models will become quite attractive, rather than monolithic solutions.

I also think 2024 is the year of the legal reckoning for the industry. Creators whose work have been used for training (i.e. plagiarized) will likely make big inroads into establishing legal frameworks for compensation, and some models will become poisoned because they were trained with unvetted data. Hopefully this also means that model-makers who have been meticulous about their training data’s providence will reap rewards.

Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due
Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago
Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

I’m more certain than ever that the first quarter of 2024 will see a grand reckoning for companies that have bet big on #AI. As I said before, I predict a lot of CFOs getting sticker shock at their compute bills, and we will see pivots and downscaling of expectations across the industry. By the middle of the year, there will likely be a general cool-down as users and investors come to grips with what “AI” can realistically do at reasonable cost (hint: not as much as the hype claims). Strategically deploying smaller models will become quite attractive, rather than monolithic solutions.

I also think 2024 is the year of the legal reckoning for the industry. Creators whose work have been used for training (i.e. plagiarized) will likely make big inroads into establishing legal frameworks for compensation, and some models will become poisoned because they were trained with unvetted data. Hopefully this also means that model-makers who have been meticulous about their training data’s providence will reap rewards.

Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
@golgaloth@writing.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool — I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates." "It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool — I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates." "It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool — I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates." "It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
From the linked article, an AI generated image with the text Scottish teachers encouraged to create AI children’s books EDUCATION Scotland has laid the foundations to irreparably damage our rich linguistic heritage by encouraging teachers to create AI-generated children’s books. As a Scots language children’s author, I was outraged when I heard about the development from fellow Scottish author Kirstin Innes, who shared a screenshot from the body on Instagram – which initially went unchallenged when it was shared to Facebook in February. I proceeded to immediately reshare the post, stressing my heartbreak that such a thing even exists. The post read: “As it’s #NationalStorytellingWeek we thought it was a good time to tell you about an excellent tool available via Glow. You can now use Google Gemini to craft personalised, illustrated storybooks about any topic with read-aloud narration.”
From the linked article, an AI generated image with the text Scottish teachers encouraged to create AI children’s books EDUCATION Scotland has laid the foundations to irreparably damage our rich linguistic heritage by encouraging teachers to create AI-generated children’s books. As a Scots language children’s author, I was outraged when I heard about the development from fellow Scottish author Kirstin Innes, who shared a screenshot from the body on Instagram – which initially went unchallenged when it was shared to Facebook in February. I proceeded to immediately reshare the post, stressing my heartbreak that such a thing even exists. The post read: “As it’s #NationalStorytellingWeek we thought it was a good time to tell you about an excellent tool available via Glow. You can now use Google Gemini to craft personalised, illustrated storybooks about any topic with read-aloud narration.”
From the linked article, an AI generated image with the text Scottish teachers encouraged to create AI children’s books EDUCATION Scotland has laid the foundations to irreparably damage our rich linguistic heritage by encouraging teachers to create AI-generated children’s books. As a Scots language children’s author, I was outraged when I heard about the development from fellow Scottish author Kirstin Innes, who shared a screenshot from the body on Instagram – which initially went unchallenged when it was shared to Facebook in February. I proceeded to immediately reshare the post, stressing my heartbreak that such a thing even exists. The post read: “As it’s #NationalStorytellingWeek we thought it was a good time to tell you about an excellent tool available via Glow. You can now use Google Gemini to craft personalised, illustrated storybooks about any topic with read-aloud narration.”
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
@golgaloth@writing.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool — I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates." "It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool — I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates." "It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool — I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates." "It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
Miguel Afonso Caetano
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