I love this channel. Some of the best content on the interwebs. I would like to reccomend two books, not necessarily on AI, but on technology in general and the societal affects. Both books by Johann Hari; "Stolen Focus" and "Lost Connections".  Makes you think we may have taken this technology thing a little too far. I found these books from an amazing episode of Soft White Underbelly with a talk with Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and educator specializing in human development. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdhuHg1juAs

I just want my RAM and Hard Drive prices to go back down lol.  I despise AI.  For every small good it does is overshadowed by the mountain of bad it is responsible for.

I appreciate your measured take on this subject :)
Sorry, couldn't resist.

Damn that was a great analogy Jon👊🏻👊🏻💪🏼💪🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Could not agree more, I'm a programmer and I don't know that I know any other programmers in the trenches at this point who want anything to do with neural net/LLM garbage. There's minor ways it can be useful in SOME tasks and workflows, but nothing that justifies the rest of the shitpile that everyone has to deal with, would gladly sacrifice all those minor use-cases to be rid of the majority of it. And we probably wouldn't have to! If there were proper regulations and STIFF penalties for some of the more egregious b.s. that's just normalized and accepted now that ought to be illegal or REALLY strictly regulated into a less insane form, we could probably have our cake and eat it too regarding the minor use-cases hangin' around to make some tasks easier, but at this point I'd take nuking the whole thing just to be rid of the worst of it.

I mean, hyperscaler data centers alone are a blight on this Earth. Regular data centers, no problem, no objections to normal data centers. But these hyperscalers are putting strains on electrical resources and energy grids, water resources, etc at a time when every summer is both breaking all previous records AND the least hot summer of the rest of our lives. We ALREADY are seeing, even in the global north/imperial core like Europe these past few months, figures like tens of thousands of people dying from heat-related factors in the summertime largely in ways that could be addressed if homes and community spaces (especially ones accessible to unhoused folks) were properly air conditioned and powered sufficient to maintain that proper air conditioning, and you wanna plug hyperscalers into the grid KNOWING the kinda summers we have ahead?? AND suck up all our water as wildfires go nutso mode every single year???

Bruh.

I love this video. Great work as always. You should do a live stream on this. I think it would be really interesting to hear what other people think of this. AI is just too new to really understand it correctly. Just like home computers in the early eighties or the internet in the 90s.

Bruh, that was a dark and comedic take on where we are with AI. I couldn't agree more. Anytime i'm landed with information on the internet now. I end up spending more time proving that the information is valid more than ever. Great video! 🤘

Couldn't agree with you more. And once this trust is broken (as it had been) it will never be regained...even if AI improves as we are promised.

Good video Jon

I have Mini ITX build that's sitting RAM-less on my shelf for a almost a year now. They can call me all kinds of luddite or whatever but this whole AI thing can drown in it's own feces. It's useful when it is but the amount of resource and thievery this technology was built on is disgusting.

yeah this is exactly how i feel about ai too. also powershifter being the riff of the week is peak

People got so confused on who Luddites really were that it became a swear word.

Not the type of video I was expecting but I mean just based on the title I agree wholeheartedly. No one worse seems to though.

I remember when i bought Obsolete cassete tape in highschool,one of the best sounding albums i ever heard to this day

A solution that doesn't work for a problem that doesn't exist. Thank you Jon for explaining it better than I could have. I hate all of this crap. Open source software saves me from a lot of it, but not all.

Well said good Sir

Very true, dude. And the most egregious crime is that instead of tackling the repetitive, boring soul-sucking work, they went for the creative stuff: artists, musicians, writers, the very people who were already the most underappreciated, yet have been pushing the culture forward, in spite of how the world treats them. Disgusting!

AI is wasted on artistic generation, but in fields like advanced mathematics that are beyond me to even describe and pattern recognition in medicine and diagnosis it's actually way ahead of projections. The people building it are making a bad name for themselves by rushing the paperwork and corrupting local politicians. I also think they have made a mistake by alienating the average tech fan who can't afford to just buy the best kit regardless of inflated cost, because tech fans are usually first adopters for new tech,

As someone who works with computers everyday building websites I'm absolutely with you, I do use "AI" (LLMs) as part of my work these days but I would have absolutely no problem with all that disappearing and no longer having "AI".
Not a fan of how these big tech companies are pushing it into everything regardless of whether it's needed or wanted
Good man, keep it up 💪

All of this hit home with me. I grew up in a tiny rural town on the Tennessee Alabama line, and I was born in '77, I remember when the internet was new and how stupid I thought it was. It wasn't yet  advanced enough for me to do any research on anything good.  and I'm pretty sure there was no way to actually win at Oregon Trail.  I went to college in 95 and we did have email and word processing, but that's all I used it for. I was in the army from 96 to 99, and I remember the very first thing that I used the internet for was to order CDs. I wish I could remember the name of that website but I think it was the only one. Then out of the army and back in the college, that's when I actually used the internet for stuff, but mostly art.  In my opinion, the usefulness of the internet tends to wax and wane, and your YouTube channel is one of my main solid links to new music. I always have some kind of link to new music, too bad it couldn't have stayed MTV.  but I love that now musical artists don't have to go through some big record company, we all have a mic. also, it warms my heart that the first thing you use the internet for was to research animals. animals are my passion, and I've stayed in such a shitty job just so I can spoil mine.  dogs, chickens? bearded dragons, ball python, and a few cats sprinkled on top.  You are a cornerstone of the connection between us music lovers and all of those new musicians out there carrying the torch.  I know you make us all appreciate the internet, even when it usually sucks. -Kathryn