FluffyPotato

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Oh, yea, of course companies will take advantage of this to just replace a ton of people with a zero cost alternative. I'm just saying that's not where it should be used as it's terrible at those tasks.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

AI doesn't exist currently, that's what LLMs are currently called. Also they have been successfully used for this and show great promise so far, unlike the hallucinating chatbot.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A blockchain is a form of database that would be really good for this because of how it maintains all database transactions while being human readable easily. Most databases aren't human readable and you need to design an interface for it. How NFTs are stored in blockchains is a good example of a very specific purpose that would make this better. Vehicle databases also don't have a clear connection to previous owners and that data needs to be retrieved manually while a blockchain keeps every modification easily visible.

Obviously don't use a blockchain used for speculative investment like Etherium but the government can just host their own without any stupid finance shit on it, just a database for vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

LLMs should absolutely not be used for things like customer support, that's the easiest way to give customers wrong info and aggregate them. For reviewing documents LLMs have been abysmally bad.

For gammer it can be useful but what it actually is best for is for example biochemistry for things like molecular analysis and creating protein structures.

I work in an office job that has tried to incorporate AI but so far it has been a miserable failure except for analysing trends in statistics.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

The DMA took effect since yesterday I think and the fine for it was like up to 20% of global revenue if I remember correctly. The EU has enforced GDPR very well so far so I don't doubt them enforcing this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Removing DRM and archiving is perfectly legal here in Estonia, only thing that counts as piracy here is distributing copyrighted materials without a license. I'm pretty sure it's not in the US but check your local laws.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The current LLM version of AI is useful in some niche industries where finding specific patterns is useful but how it's currently popularised is the exact opposite of where it's useful. A very obvious example is how it's accelerating search engines becoming useless, it's already hard to find accurate info due the overwhelming amount of AI generated articles with false info.

Also how is it a good thing that most energy will go to AI?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

As I said: Having the vehicle register stored on a blockchain would make it very easy to access a vehicle's history. Currently you need to submit a request and it takes days for them to get back to you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (6 children)

An NFT is pretty much just some data put on a blockchain, it has the same use case as most other blockchain tech: Data integrity and transparency. NFTs specifically could be useful as a framework for showing ownership of something, for example vehicle ownership could be stored in this manner. It would give you a history of previous owners and how old the vehicle is. My country has something like this but making inquiries for a vehicle's history is pretty annoying and could be improved with this tech.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Crypto has usefulness related to data transparency and integrity but not as a speculative investment and scams, just like AI is being used for shitty art and confidently incorrect chatbot.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Even if something like this passed the majority of EU governments wouldn't adopt it. Like the EU copyright directive, only about 4 countries adopted it. The EU is a trade alliance, not a federal government, it doesn't have the authority override local law unrelated to EU wide trade.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (22 children)

Good. I hope that once companies stop putting AI in everything because it's no longer profitable the people who can actually develop some good tech with this can finally do so. I have already seen this play out with crypto and then NFTs, this is no different.

Once the hype around being able to make worse art with plagiarised materials and talking to a chatbot that makes shit up died down companies looking to cash out with the trend will move on.

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