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The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)

submitted 2 days ago by Curmuffin@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world

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When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

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[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And after NFTs, blockchain, the metaverse and so on

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

The metaverse was/is the stupidest thing ever. They couldn't even sell it to the average person. I'm into tech but even I can barely describe what its supposed to be. Is it just VR? VR office work? 🤷

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd love a gang of nerds doing the real metaverse, like Gibson showed us.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea but it comes with all the other stuff in Gibsons books

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All that other stuff comes already, but I do not see it create the metaverse.

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's stop giving meta credit. Metaverse is a shit name anyway. Cyberspace is cooler and it's still not that cool.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The metaverse is awesome, invented in the book Snowcrash from 1992. Its by Neal Stephenson, not Gibson, my mistake.

Facebook just stole the name and are making some crap.

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, fair point about it being in Snow Crash. I can forgive it a little bit now. I still don't love the name, and I think we should come up with something better for the eventual fediverse version of the same idea.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah the name was cheesy even back then IMO but the concept was fantastic.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

VRchat, the OpenXR format, and custom-built/3d printed VR headsets come to mind.