Very well said. I mean I think the internet is kinda garbage to begin with due to all the advertising and SEO junk that makes everything unreliable in the first place. We wouldn’t need AI in the first place if we could just find the information we need.
Also there’s a fair bit of effort going in to making local LLMs. I haven’t seen that they are as good, but they might be good enough. But at any rate, there isn’t any incentive to put knowledge on the internet any more because there’s no fame and glory or money in being part of a massive data set.
We wouldn’t need AI in the first place if we could just find the information we need.
I’ve commented on this before … but it almost seems like that is the point, or an opportunistic moment for Google … turn the internet to shit so that we “need” the AI and that Google have a new business to grow into. Capitalism at its finest.
Also there’s a fair bit of effort going in to making local LLMs.
Yea it’s definitely interesting but my gut feeling is that open source or local LLMs (like llama) are false hope against the broader dynamics. Surely with greater Google-level resources comes ‘better’ and more convenient AI. I’d bet that open/local LLMs will end up like Linux Desktop: meaninglessly small technical user base with no anti-monopoly effects at all. Which, to open the issue up to “capitalism!!”, raises the general issue of how individualistic rather than organisational actions can be ineffectual.
Very well said. I mean I think the internet is kinda garbage to begin with due to all the advertising and SEO junk that makes everything unreliable in the first place. We wouldn’t need AI in the first place if we could just find the information we need.
Also there’s a fair bit of effort going in to making local LLMs. I haven’t seen that they are as good, but they might be good enough. But at any rate, there isn’t any incentive to put knowledge on the internet any more because there’s no fame and glory or money in being part of a massive data set.
I’ve commented on this before … but it almost seems like that is the point, or an opportunistic moment for Google … turn the internet to shit so that we “need” the AI and that Google have a new business to grow into. Capitalism at its finest.
Yea it’s definitely interesting but my gut feeling is that open source or local LLMs (like llama) are false hope against the broader dynamics. Surely with greater Google-level resources comes ‘better’ and more convenient AI. I’d bet that open/local LLMs will end up like Linux Desktop: meaninglessly small technical user base with no anti-monopoly effects at all. Which, to open the issue up to “capitalism!!”, raises the general issue of how individualistic rather than organisational actions can be ineffectual.