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Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked"::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 11 months ago (31 children)

I'm sure that a film director is an expert on the technical underpinnings of large language models, which primarily are used to generate blocks of text that have the appearance of being coherent.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Several departments where I work had massive layoffs in favour of implementing customized versions of GPT4 chatbots (both client facing services and internal stuff). That’s just the LLM end of AI.

That’s not even considering the generative image spectrum of AI. I fear for my companies graphics, web design, and UX/UI teams who will probably be gone this time next year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ux is not about drawing pictures. That work is already automated by ui kits anyway. Ux is about thinking through requirements and research.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know very well what UX is having studied it as my major in uni. Senior executives do not know what it is and have and are making decisions to “replace” them with LLMs and “prompt engineers”. I see it daily at work.

There is a great disconnect where hiring managers and executives see LLMs as a quick win that will cut costs and make moves to cut costs without doing any analysis.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Suits are idiots. No argument there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mm, I've already seen marketers present outputs from GPT models as if it's useful customer feedback. My suspicion is this bubble will burst though, because at some point it will become clear that they are not as good as what they're doing as execs have been told they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps but the egos on “decision makers” are so large that I see them doubling down until the end.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

If shareholders' profits are affected then so will the decisions lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

At the end of the day they're still TPS reports. I'm afraid the only bubble that's gonna burst is yours.

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