Artificial Stupidity: Your amazing AI future

When you imagine your future with the amazing technology of AI, chances are it doesn't look like what's happening today. In fact, it's not even close. If you're sick of hearing about AI while lamenting the lack of actual, cool uses for it, you're not alone. On top of that, It's getting pretty bad out there: from power problems to money problems to 'model collapse', AI is on the road to changing... well, nothing at all, actually! It's pretty much a mess.

Links mentioned in the vid:

- Big Tech needs to generate $600 billion in annual revenue to justify AI hardware expenditure:
https://www.techspot.com/news/103699-big-tech-needs-generate-600-billion-annual-revenue.html
- Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-researchers-paper-ai-internet
- Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug:
https://www.404media.co/google-ai-potentially-breaking-reality-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/
- Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13843#
- GIGO: AI produces gibberish when trained on too much AI-generated data:
https://www.sott.net/article/493452-GIGO-AI-produces-gibberish-when-trained-on-too-much-AI-generated-data
- AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
- Generative AI could be hurting productivity at work, despite what bosses believe:
https://www.techspot.com/news/103985-generative-ai-could-hurting-productivity-work-despite-what.html
- Activision Blizzard has started using AI to pick up the slack left by laid-off artists:
https://www.techspot.com/news/103990-activision-blizzard-has-begun-using-ai-pick-up.html

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