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Screenshot of a Mastodon post by Kevin Beaumont: “Generative Al government lobbying.”
Photo of AI/tech company CEO’s, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.
Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.
Technology Example Maybe Useful For Marketed As Actual Use ---------- ------- ---------------- ------------- ------------- Voice Recognition Alexa Voice Typing OMG!!! Digital Assistant!!!!! Hoover up your personal information LLM ChatGPT Better Google OMG!!! Replace people!!!! Hoover up your personal information Blockchain - ? OMG!!!! Put in everything!!!!! Cryptocurrency NPT - N/A OMG!!!! NPT!!!! Fleecing rubes CryptoCurrency BitCoin Online $ transfer OMG!!!! Buy! Buy! Buy! Stealing your real moneyN.B. There has GOT to be a better way to align tables in Lemmy.
LLMs are definitely not for better Google. They are text generators, not search engines.
They could be used in conjunction with search engines, like perplexity does. But they can not and will not ever replace them.
They make tons of mistakes and they can not be fully trusted. So don’t use them as truth or things that require to be faultless.
LLMs are useful for descriptions (like comments in code), creative input (help writers get out of writers block), summaries (full text can be checked for hallucinations), and corporate emails (since nobody reads that flowerly language anyway).