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NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion
Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😢
gizmodo.com/nvidia-reportedly-stops-flirting-with-hugging-face-and-just-buys-it-2000803681Replying to @obsidian@discuss.online
So they are just slapping random price tags on things now. It’s a database of AI questions. They have paid 13 billion dollars for a database, and everyone’s acting like that’s a perfectly rational sensible thing to do. No one in the financial industry has any sense anymore.
A company that’s only product is something that people either don’t want or actively hate has paid an eye-watering amount of money for a database to train their product on, this training will have no effect whatsoever on whether people want it.
I have this nice bridge with lots of training examples if anybody’s interested, 100 trillion dollars please
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
not everyone has a hate boner for AI
Replying to @1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
It’s an expensive toy that might become a viable product in a decade that doesn’t mean it’s a valuable company today. Irresponsible spending like this is exactly what led to the dot com bubble.
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
its a useful tool for me doing research.
Replying to @1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
Yeah because it was impossible to Google things in the past. Every time anybody comes up with a use for AI it’s basically just automating something that isn’t even that hard for you to do. If you want to automate simple tasks that’s absolutely fine but it’s not the second coming as people keep insisting.
Come back to me when an AI can actually add value to something, when it can do something that is not just automating a simple task, but it’s capable of doing things that humans are not. I keep being told that we’re only a few years away from the technological singularity, so wake me up when we actually get there.
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
when it can do something that is not just automating a simple task, but it’s capable of doing things that humans are no
No, credit when credit’s due, LLMs have arrived (by themselves) or helped to arrive at some mathematical conclusions, didn’t they? A few of Erdős, some others. Yes, it’s, a very small subset (duh), out of god knows how many they tried, and achieving the solution is made via technique called “infinite monkeys typing out Hamlet”, but credit when credit’s due.
Replying to @ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
Yeah I knew you’d say something like that. Mean while the rest of the human race is busy getting on with existing and not worrying about hyper specific mathematical constructs that have no bearing on actual reality. Let me know when you come up with some kind of actual concrete used for the technology rather than some toy situation.
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
It saves immeasurable time. Your time may not be valuable, but mine is.
Yeah and another way to say that is my job is complicated enough they cannot be automated via lua script with ambition.
Rather than being an ass wipe why don’t you tell us what you are immensely important and easily automatable job is. And then I guess you can go find a new career, or something.
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
I’ve posted examples in the past, enema bag. No new career necessary. My current career, attained with an MSc in Machine Learning, is serving me just fine.