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I was excited about the idea of purpose-built systems trained on specific datasets to be help find complex patterns to diagnose diseases or suggest potential molecules for specific purposes.
Then the LLM shit started and everyone started fantasizing about intelligent "AI" just because it was able to reproduce patterns of language that seem relevant to a given input. Some of those funding it kept chasing that dream and are convinced that, if they just throw more compute at the problem, they can evolve the renaissance AGI that can do anything. Then they can fire every worker and be bazillionaires with robot slaves and never have to work another day of their lives... and fuck everyone and everything else.
It's amazing what we can ruin when we let greed and selfishness drive our society.
The LLM craze is a natural maturation point of the AI field though, and now it's expanded into foundational models (FM) which you would still probably just call LLMs because most people don't know the differences. FMs are getting close to that point of a magical universal computer that you can tell it to do anything about anything and it just works. There are specific FM applications like FMs for earth science or remote sensing (which I work in), but the big money coming from this technofascist elite is pushing for FMs for everything along with Agentic AI, which is the ultimate state to replace pesky human workers overall. They seek the ultimate triumph of Capital over Labor.
There are competing incentives driving the industry, but by far the strongest one is coming from who has the most money, and those who have the most money are the worst possible people that should have no say in how anything works. Scary times we're in.
At 1million i could already stop working and live decent life :/. I really don't get why past 1billion they continue to search for more
They actually have a disorder or disease. However in this case their disorder is destroying the rest of the world. There's a fast approaching point that the world organism will self-heal to prevent its own death.
It's a sickness
Maybe it's because I've only ever had at most a comfortable income but I truly don't understand the mentality of needing so much money.
I don't get paid as much as my peers but I make enough to be comfortable. I am my own department and, aside from emergencies and other high priority situations, I manage myself and choose what to work on when. I have a decent work life balance. Because I make enough to be comfortable (in large part because my landlord promised not to raise our rent - early in the COVID lockdown - if we were "good tenants" and has managed to keep true to her word) I don't feel the need for more. That balance is worth not making the 20% more a year I might get somewhere else because I can't guarantee I won't have a shitty boss that doesn't let me have that work/life balance.