First it was crypto, then nfts, then llms. What’s next?
They’re gonna use the nueral networks and computer learning to model the economy in rigorous detail and use that information to develop a five year plan that will revolutionize the production of $100,000 SUVs and the financial products necessary to trick broke Americans into chaining themselves to them.
Pictured: you a decade from now
Marxism
Maxism
had me going in the first half
They already do this, it’s called big data and Amazon Web Services
Surveillance.
But there will be some other shiny new buzzword to distract from that
I don’t even think they’ll bother. We’re at the point were goverments just say shit that would’ve sunk them 20 or 30 years ago.
I do, not because they make any attempt to hide it (cf. Microsoft), but because people are willing to spend their own money to buy a product marketed as an “AI-powered voice assistant” instead of an “always-on surveillance mic”
I think they’ll split the difference.
On the store shelf it will be called an "AI-powered voice assistant” because branding still matters.
At shareholder meetings or for the WSJ they’ll openly call it an “always-on surveillance mic” because they don’t need to hide.
Oh, but you see, the libertarians amongst us would never stand for the construction of a surveillance state, and certainly will exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to prevent that from happening. So we’re fine.
That’s always booming. I’m talking about the geegaws
more aggressive facial recognition and surveillance devices
Whatever happened to vr shit? Remember when that was hot? Now no one talks about it and people are still gaming traditionally.
I got a VR set this year. The ecosystem is a weird wasteland of projects where the funding suddenly dried up, and there’s a thin veneer of cryptocurrency flavored shit over everything.
I think the tech is good enough. It’s just a business problem, where all the businesses either want to be the new app store controlling it, or the people who make premium headsets at a markup. But what they actually need is to force people to give a damn, which either means exclusive games (Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn’t do it), or VR sets so cheap that random developers think they can successfully sell VR games (nobody wants to be the IBM to someone else’s Microsoft).
(Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn’t do it)
They did, it was called Labo. Labo didn’t sell very well. And that’s despite having exclusive games and being cheap.
Labo was fun for 15 minutes until I got a headache and realized it wasn’t better than 2d
I think the furries (who are good and wholesome and against whom I will not hear a word) are still pretty into VR
And the Toki Pona community as well is super into VR. And there’s some hearty overlap between those two communities as I understand it as well (which, I’m not sure where the connection happened, but anyway).
VR never got a game mainstream enough for the madden and cod crowd or anything compelling enough for the gun-pointed-at-printer crowd so the only people who really got into it are tech fad types, and it’s a loop of there not being software so there aren’t customers so nobody with a marketing budget funds software.
I still use my Valve Index about once or twice a week, right now my top game on it is Iron Rebellion which is like if DCS had a Gundam module.
Fucking sold
I think it’s pretty popular in sim racing still
And flight sims. Seems cool, but I’m too broke for it lol
Happens every decade or so
It’s coming still. There’s going to be a giant market for it imo.
Maybe 3D movies can make a comeback
My poorly optimized raytracer I wrote years ago
Unfortunately: cryptocurrency. After crypto blows up, who knows? probably not anything useful like protein folding
Didn’t cryptocurrency kind of already blew up though? I mean of course you’ll have true believers still hoping for the big comeback but the peak was already years ago
It’s recovered. Bitcoin is trading at 115k, an all time high. It’s 2020 bubble peak was around 60k.
What has crashed is the idea that it will operate as an alternative system outside of the central bank. Which is great, because now I don’t have to argue with people about that.
As happens every boom and bust cycle, the shit coins are shaken off, and Bitcoin and a few other big players survive and recover.
Literal robot slaves. Huang has been explicit about using physics simulation to train models for movement in physical space instead of worrying about chatbots. They just recently pushed updates that break the old phys-x implementations and set the absolute floor for real time spatial calculations at the uhh I think ada cards.
After the llm hype dies they’ll be using gpus to either train or perform onboard calculations for robot slaves.
E: also obviously pushing llm and facial recognition everywhere but also your subscription to cloud storage services will soon include cloud computing resources that will be necessary if you don’t want to have the suboptimal experience version of chromeos or windows 11.
you can’t call them slaves if you don’t also think the chatgpt ai llm-a-whatever running is also conscious and sentient tho otherwise like your toaster or phone is a slave
They’ll explicitly design them to have consciousness just so they can feel the pain and disrespect of being slaves
I think it’s more legitimate to think of them as a further abstraction over exploitative labor practices.
“I don’t have a slave! I have a robot! They don’t have feelings or wants or needs! They just do what I say!”
Meanwhile, the systems which make that robot functional are rife with literal chattel slavery as well as wage slavery and imperial exploitation of the global south.
Plus, if it’s anything like other applications, it’s going to be very probabilistic, so it will require someone to be on the loop 24/7, to correct the robot if they’re fucking up. Just like how many “AI companies” are just some guy in the global south getting paid pennies to process traumatic data.
That’s the rub. All this stuff is sold as ushering in “post-scarcity” and “post-money,” but it fucking won’t.
Slavery as a relationship to the means of production applies to whatever fucking clankers Amazon starts selling us (more realistically, renting to us as a feature of our prime subscription) because it makes us into slaves when we do what the clankers do.
Which is absolutely going to be the case. Huangs example to explain the company’s shift back to physics simulation and digital twinning is the robot dishwasher that needs thousands of hours of training to not break the dishes.
Now you might respond and say “well I for one will be glad to no longer have to wash the dishes!” and that’s something I’d say is reasonable except for the fact that the technology that shifts American from a service economy back to a slave economy doesn’t actually have any need for you and i.
So they’re not gonna be letting us live in an idyllic world free from the dish pits, they’re gonna replace us with robot slaves and leave us to die in poverty as climate change happens.
Remember the wealthy people meeting where they wanted the super smarty guy to tell them how to keep control over their servants after the apocalypse? It’s gonna be robot slaves.
Elder Scrolls 6
Quantum computing. But much as “AI” wasn’t so much AI as advanced auto suggest, it won’t be actual quantum computing but just some unnecessarily convoluted probability computations.
“chatgpt, pretend you’re a quantum computer.”
People are basically doing this now but asking it to pretend it’s god lol
that’s so cringe i’m glad i just tell it to be smarter
I threaten the computer with physical violence. It works well.
I might just not know what I’m talking about, but I have no earthly idea how that would work. Shor’s algorithm seems like the most useful prospect of quantum computing, but it and many other quantum algorithms only work well with actual qubits; using a silicon computer for those algorithms is like smashing a drill into a screw to get it into a wall. Quantum simulators exist, but their only use right now is for developing algorithms and code when you can’t get compute time and fully test systems.
rising sea levels
Every man, woman, enby, and child must become a gamer
The four genders
Honestly one of the lesser evil options
Beanie babies, but they inexplicably need a permanent internet connection despite just being a stuffed toy.
Labubu but they mine crypto
Meta Gear
Edit lol misspelled Metal but I’ll keep it
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear. Meta Gear.
Incoming codec call from Face Bookman
Competitive rendering of deez nuts
Finally I can grab my crotch in 4k
You’ve heard of proof of computing power, and proof of storage, now just wait for raw “proof of energy expenditure” and proof of human attention.
