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[–] scribas@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Please elaborate and educate me. I would love to learn.

[–] scribas@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago

Hahaha, you guys are too funny!

[–] scribas@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why are lots of people down-voting my post? Is my understanding wrong - granted, I am still learning? Or do they think that AI is only good for us?

[–] scribas@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks, interesting thoughts. I am trying to understand agentic AI and its potential uses and security risks better. I am also a bit hesitant to let it loose on my laptop, even if you sandbox the thing. I was also amazed how all our executives were pushing us to use AI for everything, without really trying to figure out legitimate use cases that will move the needle and without considering the massive potential costs. Then some of our agents suddenly got switched off, when token budgets were used up faster than expected.

 

So, if I understand this correctly, a few individuals in the USA are buying up all the RAM and GPUs being manufactured in the world, with huge loans that they are hoping they will be able to pay off someday, to put into some of the biggest data centers ever constructed, all over cheap, peaceful villages, for which the electric grid has to be substantially upgraded, massively increasing our carbon emissions, and a large portion of the available fresh water supply has to be redirected, so that we can consume:

  • Generative AI: A Large Language Model (LLM) that has gobbled up most of humanity's literature and content on the Internet, so that it can predict the next word in a sentence.
  • Agentic AI: A list of traditional IF THEN statements that do things based on the output of the magical LLM and then create a new prompt that they feed back into the LLM in a never ending loop, with the aim of consuming as many tokens as possible.
  • Ontology: A long list of relationships between real-world objects and concepts to constantly remind the LLM not to make up impossible stuff.

Correct?

I suspect that they have run out of ideas how to make us buy new smartphones.

[–] scribas@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

I will maybe do another post a little later, of how I really feel about AI, its economic and environmental impact and whether all of it is really worth the benefits it can currently provide.

[–] scribas@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just to explain, this was meant more as satire, not my actual view of what AI is capable of. I think people are taking it a little too seriously.