I love the graphic! I've had the misfortune of twice jumping on that roller coaster just before the Peak of Inflated Expectation - once for the AI boom/bust of the mid 1980s and once for the dotcom boom/bust of the late 1990s. Jumped on too late to make a killing, but didn't get too badly damaged by the Trough of Disillusionment either.
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 10:34 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > https://doctorow.medium.com/the-ai-hype-bubble-is-the-new-crypto-hype-bubble-74e53028631e > > I *am* a fan of LLMs (not so much image generators) and blockchain (not so > much crypto or NFTs) in their "best" uses (not that I or anyone else really > knows what that is) in spite of my intrinsic neoLuddite affect. > > Nevertheless I think Doctorow in his usual acerbic and penetrating style > really nails it well here IMO. > > I particularly appreciated his reference/quote to Emily Bender's "High on > Supply" and "word/meaning conflation" in the sense of "don't mistake an > accent for a personality" in the dating scene. > > A lot of my own contrarian commments on this forum come from resisting > what Doctorow introduces (to me) as "CritiHype" (attributed to Lee > Vinsel)... the feeling that some folks make a (a)vocation out of kneejerk > criticism. It is much easier to *poke* at something than to *do* > something worthy of being *poked at*. I appreciate that Doctorow doesn't > seem to (by my fairly uncritical eye) engage in this much himself... which > is why I was drawn into this article... > > I also very much appreciate his quote from Charlie Stross: > > *corporations are Slow AIs, autonomous artificial lifeforms that > consistently do the wrong thing even when the people who nominally run them > try to steer them in better directions:* > > > *https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future > <https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future> * > > > I could go on quoting and excerpting and commenting on his whole article > and the myriad links/references he offers up but will curb my enthusiasm > and leave it to the astute FriAM readers to choose how much to indulge > in. It was a pretty good antidote for my own AI-thusiasm driven by long > chats with GPT4 (converging on being more like long sessions wandering > through Wikipedia after the first 100 hours of engagement). > > > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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