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@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI don't think I could feel any greater 'AI'*-everything fatigue. I'm catching snippets of my wife (a lecturer at the polytech) listening to a presentation in the other room (via the poly's MS Teams, naturally. 
) on dealing with 'AI' in the classroom, and it's use (illicit & otherwise) by students. The presenters are gushingly pro-'AI', and I find their enthusiasm incredibly grating and it makes me sad for humanity.
* 'AI' is a misleading marketing term. They're just generative LLMs.
I wonder to what extent these people are conscious of the environmental cost of using these systems. Out of sight, out of mind. And the presenters are making their careers dependent on continued access to *free* genLLM access. I suspect they'll be short careers.
@lightweight A huge amount of it is just FOMO, from the C-Suite down to (if i'm being very ungenerous) the boot-lickers who like to follow suit.
From what i've seen a lot of people haven't really got any idea what LLMs are, how they work or what the compute cost really is.
And that's just the technical side of things, i'd wager the vast majority also have no real clue of the grift and over-hype that's going on which is basically just the latest pump & dump after NFTs and Crypto.
(IMHO)
@JimmyKip yup, agreed.
@lightweight I certainly feel this fatigue.
People who view me as a techie ask for my expert opinion on AI, & when it doesn't match this narrative they pull me into an argument I do not want.
This "AI" hype cycle is more exhausting than the blockchain one!
@lightweight One of my co-workers says he likes AI because it helps him. It fixes his writing so that what he produces is of better quality. This is a thing that makes me sad: what, you don’t want to learn to write, really learn, all on your own?
@KolokokoBird Yeah. I don't think people generally 'learn' by using an LLM. The same way they don't learn to do mental arithmetic when using a calculator. The purpose of LLMs is *to make people develop a dependence on them*. It's only when people are terrified of doing without them that they'll start making the sort of money their investors are betting they'll make. Sadly people are very easily self-deluded. The fact that #bigtech' is a thing is evidence enough of that delusion.