I believe the same thing was said about the Internet in the ’90s: “It speeds up communication, but how would anyone earn money from it?”

Although I don’t think we’re anywhere close to AGI or anything like that, current AI development fundamentally changes a few things in our lives: how we find and process information (information retrieval works very well), how we interact with computers (using natural language instead of clicking through interfaces), and how productive we are.

Video generation models are going to bring entertainment to a whole new level. A single person can now create an entire movie without even buying a camera. Entire game development studios can build worlds larger than ever before. Text generation makes disinformation and propaganda insanely cheap and effective. Surveillance will be much easier now, as owning a communication platform not only allows you to search for messages by phrase but also by meaning. Ads will be far more personalized, as AI chat platforms now know us much better than Google — the current leader in this field.

So:

there isn’t anything real there?

I really don’t think so.

So how dangerous is that really? I assume one day we’ll finally see investors saying, “Nah, that’s a bubble. I’m not gonna see any returns from those companies - I’m selling.” Then stock prices will fall, and some investors will lose money by selling for less than they bought. After that, AI unicorns will start to lose funding and close their businesses, laying off people.

But will I - a person who does not work in the AI industry and has not invested in AI companies - be affected by this?

Usefulness really comes down to which model is being used. I’ve noticed most developers choose GPT for Copilot because that’s what they are familiar with (or they often don’t have a choice due to company policy). I recommend to try Claude Sonnet. How it works is true magic.

But I agree, repetitive tasks is what it should be used for. Planning is still programmer’s job

Please add some context for someone not up to date with all that jargon. There is a trend here and on hacker news to just post a model name that says basically nothing and I often just don’t even know why I should care. Or maybe I shouldn’t?

What is the use case of stable coins? Fast international money transfer? Or are there other I’m not aware of

If something works, don’t change it. And GitHub, not being ideal, works pretty well.

You need to understand a few things. In order to keep email service usable, Proton need to fight any malicious activity. If they didn’t do it, ProtonMail would be quickly blacklisted by other mail providers as it will be interpreted as source of spam. At the same time, they have very limited capabilities to verify this activity by themselves as they cannot read contents of their user’s emails (it is encrypted) and they keep limited logs.

As an article states, here is what happened:

Proton’s official account replied the following day, stating that Proton had been “alerted by a CERT that certain accounts were being misused by hackers in violation of Proton’s Terms of Service. This led to a cluster of accounts being disabled. Our team is now reviewing these cases individually to determine if any can be restored.” Proton then stated that they “stand with journalists” but “cannot see the content of accounts and therefore cannot always know when anti-abuse measures may inadvertently affect legitimate activism.”

IMO one of the most important features

The main problem is that mobile OS is simply not useful without banking or government apps and they won’t ever appear on FOSS systems because giving control to user is exactly the opposite of what’s in their interest.

… and must share search data with rivals.

What does it mean exactly?

because of clickbait

Might be hard to do, it needs to be approved by president of Poland which is a big fan of Trump (contrary to current government)

Can I use it? And if not: when can I use it?

thanks

Alternative title: “Reddit plans to make sh**load of dollars from data we’ve all left there for free”.

It’s like you bought a car and deliberately hit the wall to make a headline “cars make you disabled”. Or bought a hammer, hit your thumb and blame hammers for this.

Guys, it’s a TOOL. Every tool is both useful and harmful. It’s up to you how you use it.

I’m reading comments on arstechnica and seeing people mad at… what exactly?

The reason I go to web search is to answer my questions. Now it’s given to me at once, without need to go anywhere. Is it sometimes hallucinating? Of course it is, but have you really 100% trusted information on the Internet before anyways? I haven’t.

You say that ads driven websites are going to stop receiving money. But have you really liked ads driven websites? The same ones whose main incentive is to keep you on the website as long as possible or, in fact, wasting as much your time as possible to sell it to ad companies? The ones that were really worth visiting already changed their business model.

State-of-the-art LLM agents do not perform calculations, they call external tools to do that.

To be fair, not all knowledge of LLM comes from training material. The other way is to provide context to instructions.

I can imagine someone someday develops a decent way for LLMs to write down their mistakes in database and some clever way to recall most relevant memories when needed.

I was talking mostly about side projects. I don’t have much time for them right now. Thanks to LLMs, I can spend those few hours a week on doing instead of reading what is the best way to do X in ever changing world of web front-end frameworks. I just sit down, ask: “how is it usually done?”, tweak it a bit and finish.

Example: I have published an app on flathub a while ago. Doing it from scratch is damn complicated. “Screw it” is what I would say in pre LLMs era after a few hours ;)