We all know that AI systems use a lot of energy and resources. But what for? What are these systems good at, exactly? To answer that, let's a look at how AI is being used today. And as a bonus, we'll also take a look at why Kevin O'Leary likes AI.
Content farms have been a thing since the early 2000s, no AI needed, just stuff hastily written by outsourced workers for less than a minimum wage, then poorly translated and turned into templates to generate thousands of pages, in what some called “SEO”.
Particularly, results for “file format” or “extension” have been a hot mess for the last 20 years or so, there was never a clean search… and yet, by searching right now for “glb file format specification”, the second link is to the canonical Khronos spec, the third one is the Wikipedia entry with links to the spec.
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I think I most align with this take: https://youtu.be/-opBifFfsMY
I grieve the loss of what was before.
Content farms have been a thing since the early 2000s, no AI needed, just stuff hastily written by outsourced workers for less than a minimum wage, then poorly translated and turned into templates to generate thousands of pages, in what some called “SEO”.
Particularly, results for “file format” or “extension” have been a hot mess for the last 20 years or so, there was never a clean search… and yet, by searching right now for “glb file format specification”, the second link is to the canonical Khronos spec, the third one is the Wikipedia entry with links to the spec.
That’s way better than it used to be.