Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Doctorow, Cory (December 18, 2023), Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?, Locus, Retrieved on 2023-12-22
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    22 DEC 2023

     What Tech Bubbles Leave Behind

    Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave nothing behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way. When the dotcom bubble burst, it left a lot behind. Walking through San Francisco’s Mission District one day in 2001, I happened upon a startup founder who was standing on the sidewalk, selling off a fleet of factory-wrapped Steelcase ...
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    22 DEC 2023

     The AI Business Model is Wrong

    AI decision support is potentially valuable to practitioners. Accountants might value an AI tool’s ability to draft a tax return. Radiologists might value the AI’s guess about whether an X-ray suggests a cancerous mass. But with AIs’ tendency to “hallucinate” and confabulate, there’s an increasing recognition that these AI judgments require a “human in the loop” to carefully review their judgments. In other words, an AI-supported radiologist...
    Folksonomies: futurism technology
    Folksonomies: futurism technology
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    22 DEC 2023

     What Will be Left After the AI Bubble Pops?

    Every bubble pops eventually. When this one goes, what will be left behind? Well, there will be little models – Hugging Face, Llama, etc – that run on commodity hardware. The people who are learning to “prompt engineer” these “toy models” have gotten far more out of them than even their makers imagined possible. They will continue to eke out new marginal gains from these little models, possibly enough to satisfy most of those low-stakes, low-dollar ap­...
    Folksonomies: technology ai
    Folksonomies: technology ai
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