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Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main difference is that crypto was/is burning huge amounts of energy to run a distributed ponzi scheme. LLMs are at least using energy to create a useful tool (even if there is discussion over how useful they are).

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also 🙂

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.