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Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago (5 children)

AI is a tool, like a hammer. Useful when used for its purpose. Unfortunately every tech company under the sun is using it for the wrong fucking thing. I don't need AI in my operating system or my browser or my search engine. Just let it work on protein folding, chemical synthesis and other more useful applications. Honestly can't wait for the AI hype to calm the fuck down.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

You forgot mass surveillance. It's great at that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The only way it's going to die down is if it gets replaced with the next tech bro buzzword.

The previous one was "smart", and it stuck around for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Blockchain was one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Seem to have forgotten NFT. Swear to fuck, if some firm thought their customers really were that dumb, they'd have claimed that every bottle of their milk had an integrated NFT and the lactose protein was backed by the Blockchain™.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Preach it. I have been so sick of AI hype and rolling my eyes any time a business advertises it, and in some cases moving on. I don't care about your glorified chat bot or search engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

AI is the buzzword for a search engine that actually fucking works, something we used to have that gradually got enshittified out of existence

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It'll balance out. I'm old enough to remember many web tech being this way from flash, to Bluetooth to Cloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It works pretty well as research/learn tool at my job.. I learned a lot very fast using AI as a tool in my browser.