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What is the most overly over-hyped tech trend?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Friday December 13, @06:35PM (14 children)
I voted for "Generative AI", if you had said "Current". It would have been a slam dunk in the Generative AI court. Though, I guess trend implies current.
Still, cryptocurrency is definitely popular. Just look at the people getting scammed when *insert new meme coin* is introduced and about the only person who makes money is the person who created it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Friday December 13, @08:09PM (11 children)
I voted cryptocurrency, because generative ai actually has legitimate uses, while cryptocurrency is 100% hype.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Interesting) by krishnoid on Saturday December 14, @02:40AM
Whether I believe in the hype or not, 2016 and beyond has taught me [wikipedia.org] if you can't beat 'em, see where people who support 'em are spending their money. So between cryptocurrency and generative AI, maybe nVidia is still a fair investment.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Saturday December 14, @03:18AM (3 children)
Cryptocurrency sure, but blockchain [investopedia.com] definitely has its uses. Kind of like how BOINC was created (?) to run SETI@Home [wikipedia.org] but has since been used to support multiple other projects [berkeley.edu].
(Score: 5, Informative) by zocalo on Saturday December 14, @11:43AM (2 children)
[*] I work for a consultancy with a busines unit that offers blockchain solutions via a solution provider partnership. Almost all the blockchain projects I'm aware of are for the government bodies, military, or large industrial/service provider type organizations we generally work with looking to authenticate and track large asset/data/documentation sets, so maybe it's a different story in other sectors. While there have been a few "successes", most are are churning through a litany of problems of implementation, integration, adoption, etc., or have already been scrapped. I've yet to see a single case study of the so called successes that include any significant tangible benefits over the previous solution that are clearly quantifiable. The business unit and solution provider concerned make a profit on the job either way though, so it's all good, right?
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14, @11:51PM (1 child)
As I said the last time this poll was up.
Unless you really need the database to have all 7 of those features, there isn't really a benefit over using one of the easier and cheaper alternatives.
Or, as maxwell's demon suggested, maybe the author was a security researcher trying to generate a large body of data for a breakthrough in nested hash research.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zocalo on Sunday December 15, @12:21PM
AFAICT, the main problems our clients face isn't the size of the data sets, processes behind the data handling, and the like; it's ensuring data integrity and any required authorizations are present and correct within their existing DBs and document management systems. Typically, they've already ticked the boxes on fault-tolerant, secure (as far as practicable), distributed, and have access control more or less where it needs to be. That doesn't require a whole new system based on the blockchain; it just needs the existing processes be tweaked slightly and maybe the introduction of a few digital signatures here and there in conjunction with some more robust version control.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14, @07:24AM (4 children)
What is the legitimate use of mass generated sentences with no semantic content, at best filled with false information plausibly presented? Lorum ipsum is a solved problem, and canonical trolls abound on the internet.
Consider Chomsky's dragon: "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously." Grammatically perfect. Zero meaning (or truth).
Reminder that LLMs are a scam, and you are not in on the con. But it serves the conmen if you think you are.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday December 14, @06:04PM (2 children)
One anecdote: I run a CNC machine shop. I've been able to successfully use Claude as a sounding board for potential solutions to machining difficulties. It seems to understand things like how the different cutter coatings interact with different workpiece materials, and many other relevant details.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15, @08:15AM (1 child)
It seems to understand. The problem is that it provably doesn't. Lucky for you, the people it is copying do and so the text it generates embeds that understanding. But then you ask it a question you don't know the answer to beforehand. How are you to tell apart instances when it copies the speech patterns of people who know and when it copies the speech patterns of those that either don't, were talking about something completely different with similar words to your question, or just plain made a mistake. That is the real problem because without some sort of knowledge-based check on the answers, you are just hoping the person in the Chinese Room or the computer-generated instructions he consults therein don't error.
(Score: 3, Touché) by mhajicek on Sunday December 15, @05:14PM
I can tell if it makes a mistake because I'm asking it about a subject I'm an expert in.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday December 16, @04:08PM
Generating good enough e-mail filler, without needing to come up with it yourself. Also, it's pretty good at coming up with basic programming solutions. Certainly faster than me searching for them. Sure, it's not going to do all of the work for you. However using it as a time saver certainly works!
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by zocalo on Saturday December 14, @11:23AM
Frankly, I'm surprised OpenAI et al haven't already tried to break the feedback loop by making sure AI generated content is tagged somehow, either through support of legal efforts to make sure AI-generated content is visibly tagged as such, and potentially through some form of steganography or markup embedded within the generated content as well (admittedly hard with sort snippets of text). Some of the stuff being put out now is clearly garbage to anyone with a clue about the subject matter (which, unfortuntely, still leaves a awful lot of consumers who can't tell), but my feeling is that it's not going to take too many more training iterations before the mountain of AI generated hallucinations and other slop overwhelms the genunine content and the datasets become useless and impossible to sanitise.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday December 17, @02:39AM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Informative) by zocalo on Tuesday December 17, @02:32PM
I've worked on examples of both of the above, and there are very real cost savings and efficiency benefits to be had - user facing views of the data in realtime too, if you want them (gamification of power saving can make a huge difference in how much energy, and therefore money, you can save).
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Hartree on Tuesday December 17, @02:38AM (1 child)
All of the above.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Tuesday December 17, @08:08AM
Yup. My reply to "Which of these is the most overhyped?" was "Yes".
(Score: 3, Informative) by drussell on Tuesday December 17, @09:32AM (1 child)
Are we somehow expecting significantly different answers than the last time this same poll was run, all the way back in June?
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday December 17, @10:03AM
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