- 10 minutes
And the Silicon Valley leadershit sure does get salty when people look at the dystopian future and decide to punt on reproduction.
- betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
Because Silicon Valley failed to sell their current vision of the future to students? Rather strange that anyone at all would take students for granted.
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Let’s all just pauze for a moment and try to take in the utter stupidity of Big Tech and US capitalism.
AI has been a thing for over ten years. Even before LLM’s we were doing great things with self-learning algorithms and there was a great deal of enthousiasm about where this technology would take us.
Fast forward to today and the blatant incompetence of AI agents, LLM’s or VLM’s to perform even the most simple tasks, stands in stark contrast to the billions being thrown at tech companies, to the hundreds of data centers popping up to fuel Big Tech’s hot air balloon, to greedy eagerness of corporate America to replace skilled workers with untested and unproven technology and to the devastating effects this AI bubble is having on the real economy.
Don’t get me wrong, AI is definitely the future (even id LLM’s are not). But this AI bubble is an utter waste of capital, resources and talent that could’ve been used to fuel actual AI development and innovation. What we’re seeing is not the birth of a bright new future, but the death throes of a dysfunctional political and economic system.
- StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Even 4 years ago, I was super excited about AI. It was a neat little toy. It had promise. Then it became the fucking pumpkin spice of the tech world.
But like… if pumpkin spice also stole all the other recipes, replaced the baristas, destroyed the bean farms, flooded the menu with fake drinks, and then lectured you about innovation when you asked why everything suddenly tasted like sewage.
–“You’re right to call that out. Let me make you a fresh cup, but this time I won’t use water from the toilets.”
–Makes a new cup from the fucking urinal instead.
- 7 hours
Why would graduates reject a future of technological abundance, economic growth, and unprecedented innovation?
Written like a sycophant. The abundance’s only purpose is to supplant the jobs those graduates will be looking for, cut their compensation, and simultaneously charge them for whatever services the AI rent seeks on. The economic growth is only for the 1%. And the “innovation” is nothing more than finding ways to exploit the public for fees while killing access to information and creating damaging imagery that distorts reality.
- benjirenji@slrpnk.netEnglish13 hours
Cause it’s neither a hopeful nor inspiring future. We see the harms of social media, subscription only services, enshittification everywhere and the youth graduates into a job market where the ‘most prestigious’ companies aid in several genocides, their leaders and/or owners are pedos, Nazis or both and most important of all keep announcing the end of human labor.
What is there to be excited about?
We owe our children and grand children a better outlook on life.
- Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish16 hours
Good. I believed in personal computers and the internet changing the world. However the promise was that it would make life better for everyone. It only made life better for a select few who then used it to further their own interests. I don’t think the new grads have anything to lose by refusing to play the game since it is completely rigged against them.
- textik@sh.itjust.worksEnglish16 hours
Speaking as a senior dev: AI has replaced new hires and interns, and the students know it. Why would management hire me juniors when Claude does what they can for cheaper? Will be interesting to see how this ouroboros functions in 10 years when it’s still recycling the state of the art as of 2022, and the senior devs start retiring with nothing but agentic backfills.
- kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
Will be interesting to see how this ouroboros functions in 10 years when it’s still recycling the state of the art as of 2022, and the senior devs start retiring with nothing but agentic backfills.
That’s a concern for future executives.
The ones making today’s decisions only need concern themselves with the current quarter’s profits.
By the time things fall apart, they’ll be down the road enjoying their golden parachute, while making “bold decisions” at some other company.
2 hoursI’ve never had a coworker as stupid as AI. And yes I have had some really stupid coworkers.
- MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish6 minutes
I have. I guess he knew it, too , since he tried to pass generated code off as his own without understanding it. It was very awkward when he asked me for a recommendation.
- richmondez@lemdro.idEnglish9 hours
That is the problem though, it can’t do what they do which is learn as develop and grow in skill and understanding. What is more, the companies peddling LLM as replacements are pushing it well below the cost needed to train and run the models and costs can fluctuate wildly depending on what the LLM is asked to do, so once the true costs are asked to be born by companies we’ll see how it really shakes out.
- Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
The vision: “Listen up you ungrateful insect. You’ll work for nothing, under constant surveillance, until you die early, penniless and in pain, from very preventable conditions. Also, we’re just going to fire you randomly. Fuck you”
- jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
Then something unexpected happened. Students began to boo.
This was expected by everyone, I recall Eric Schmidt himself talking about how disappointed he was that students were booing but he would turn the students around at his speech.
From there the article roughly seems to be roughly dismissive of the students and pretty bullish about AI anyway. Real Skinner “no, it’s the children who are wrong” energy wrapped up in way too many words.
- 21 hours
The children are suppose to use the tech yet they won’t. It’s like government pushing square dancing in schools.
Grew up in the US and why the fuck did we have square dancing in gym class.
- 1 hour
The same reason the Nazis came to power: Henry Ford and his antisemitism.
Wild. I knew Henry Ford was a Nazi but didn’t know square dancing was a result of him lobbying schools to try and control the culture. Nazis are dumber than rocks.
- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish1 day
Because young people are the ones on whom the burden of actual work always falls, so they can see that it doesn’t fucking work
- Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish21 hours
It’s also a very stark warning of the future, if they are willing to throw them under the bus when the tech isn’t working, imagine what would happen if they actually had AI.
- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish20 hours
Neither of my kids had read 1984, which I thought was a scandalous oversight by their school, so I bought them each a copy.
My younger kid said “I guess I can see why it might have been more impressive for you reading it before technology, but this stuff is all pretty obvious”.
My kids are both post-iphone, and therefore natives of a totalitarian society in a way that I (pre-Internet) simply am not.
- BabyVi@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
The goal of creating a hyper intelligent machine-slave is an inherently foolish and self-destructive one.
- AngryRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
A family friend’s daughter graduates after the coming Fall semester with a computer game design degree and zero job opportunities.
- 0ndead@infosec.pubEnglish4 hours
Oof. That’s a rough industry to get into even before AI. A big part of the problem is the App Store ecosystem that pushes towards free or cheap games, making turning a profit super hard even for solo devs. (Have family in the game industry. Seen a few studios rise and fall with a single game.)
- badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
I think this super “government shouldn’t do basically anything” libertarianism that the tech bros are, as well as many of their acolytes and zealots, is actually really anarcho-syndicalism. That name sounds scary and radical though, so they call themselves something that sounds like liberty. In my country (USA), that word is really, really loaded beyond its dictionary meanings.
- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish17 hours
There’s not a single anarchist bone between Thiel, Karp, Nadella, Andreessen, etc.
They still can only conceive of hierarchies, and how to use them to dominate people.
Anarcho-syndicalists are the people building unions. Captains of industry are the people smashing unions.
- badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
Pretty much. Being indifferent to companies doing whatever they want, even when it is always against the public good, is functionally the same as advocating for it in this monopoly/oligopoly environment.
- gdog05@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
The article author doesn’t understand what Silicon Valley’s actual vision for the future is, but the students do.
- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish20 hours
Governments that are being well paid to establish the surveillance state fucking love it.
- badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
If silicon valley paid everyone as much as they’re paying the government people, it would be far more popular.
