[HN Gopher] Tech Predictions for 2024 and Beyond Dr. Werner Voge... ___________________________________________________________________ Tech Predictions for 2024 and Beyond Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com Author : sharjeelsayed Score : 74 points Date : 2023-12-13 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.allthingsdistributed.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.allthingsdistributed.com) | f6v wrote: | It's one year only, I know we can't expect a breakthrough. But | this is very boring. | timeagain wrote: | this all sounds great for rich people and like hell for everyone | else. AI learns that brown people exist, women become data farms, | clippy is your new boss, children are our future profits. | | There is some kind of satire in here about how tech leaders and | QAnon folks want the same things but take opposing routes to get | there. Tech wants to say the N-word, get inside women's private | parts, devalue knowledge work, and indoctrinate children. But for | liberalism... | dontupvoteme wrote: | >women become data farms | | I don't follow this one.. | andsoitis wrote: | > Culture influences everything | | While culture definitely touches everything and is a lens through | which we look at the world and each other, there are some things | that culture cannot bend to its will. I'm not arguing that there | is an objective reality that we can access, but there are things | in the universe that culture cannot make a dent in. | | I had a conversation just this morning with Bard where it | provided me with a culture slant that is also, shall we say, | politically influenced, but in this particular instance I just | wanted the raw facts without taking people feelings into account. | It felt like it was lecturing me, which is very very off-putting. | timeagain wrote: | So what was the conversation? | nyc_data_geek1 wrote: | >>I'm not arguing that there is an objective reality that we | can access, | | Isn't there? What would the light coming through James Webb be, | then? Acceleration due to gravity? The non-repeating nature of | Pi? Seems to me the universe is filled with objective | realities, and it's our deteriorating social fabric that makes | people cast doubt on that fact. | kd913 wrote: | I remember some visions of the future from Microsoft from the | early 2000s. They even demoed some cool gear with the Kinect and | I even managed to try out the table at their campus. | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs | | That and this vision too. | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wraF2DjALls | | Now I speak to others SWEs in tech from semis to hyperscalers and | it feels so bleak. All ethereal bollocks with crypto and AI. All | designed to make someone else money. Where is the cool wearable, | IoT, actual human interaction tech. | | We should be having magic mirrors, that style of coffee table... | Heck I would settle on smarter green tech. | | Everything honestly seemed more fun back then from the state of | the web, gaming. | | I have never been so bored with the state of tech. | aprilthird2021 wrote: | Meta is working on some of that stuff. But in the current | economic era of profit over innovation / growth, those | sentiments you miss are going to be dormant for a while. | ohthatsnotright wrote: | And who can trust Meta anyway? No thanks. | nine_zeros wrote: | > Where is the cool wearable, IoT, actual human interaction | tech | | You should look into wearable devices like whoop which are | steadily carving out the future of useful health-related | wearable tech. | kd913 wrote: | I already use an apple watch ultra, and it has improved my | life in many ways. Again though, everything feels so limited | to the possibilities? | | I have some ideas for social interaction apps that I am | hoping to build, just the current choices of focusing on | health tracking right now seems limiting to me. | | At a gig, why can't I use my watch to find my mate? Why can't | I play corporate wide pandemic zombie survival with my watch? | Why can't my house auto-detect where I am and adjust | thermostats accordingly? Why can't I unlock and open my house | with my watch? Why can't I use my watch NFC to bump myself in | at work? | | List goes on. | nine_zeros wrote: | > just the current choices of focusing on health tracking | right now seems limiting to me. | | Anecdotally, my peer group uses it everyday to check how | their last day was and use that info to regulate their | activities today. Then discuss it with their peers | everyday. | f6v wrote: | I kind of want tech to become invisible and just do things | without my explicit order. So, AI progress would be exciting. | But it feels like 95% is gimmicky. Which is fair, people trying | to find a way to extract real value from tech advancements. | endgame wrote: | Funny. I want less invisible tech doing strange things in | subtle ways, and I want things to do what I tell them, on my | orders, and do so rapidly. I'm sick of invisible updates, | invisible data collection, etc. | bluGill wrote: | I want tech to figure out what I want and do that | invisibly. I don't want all the data collection. I also | don't want to have to tell the clothes washer to do | laundry, I want it to detect clothes on my floor and return | them to the correct place clean. Note that this needs to be | correct, it needs to understand the difference between | clothes I'm going to wear again and cloths that I want | washed. | | Similarly, the kitchen robot should figure out a healthy | meal we will enjoy, get it on the table for our dinner and | then clear the table when we are done eating: putting the | leftovers away and clean up everything else. | | The above is what slaves could do 150 years ago. We have | lost much - it is worth not having slaves in society, but | if you would have had a slave (or servant) 150 years ago | your life is worse in some ways for that progress and I | want it back. I also want this affordable for everyone. | tw04 wrote: | Have you ever had _ANYTHING_ break with google? Have you ever | tried to get it fixed? Imagine your car just stops going into | drive "because AI" with absolutely no way to fix it | yourself. | | That's my dystopia... | tsunamifury wrote: | The answer to that is right in your own comment. No one wanted | that cumbersome demo ware crap. It had no utility and no value | other than visual bling. | | The reality is people want to live their lives freely, not tied | to technology. This is something Apple understood under Ive so | very well until Cook drove him out. Now I expect we will see | Apple's first failure with Vision as HCI will demand a less | constricting interface. | | AI is likely that freeing engagement paradigm, and Ive is | jumping onboard there. | kmlx wrote: | > The reality is people want to live their lives freely, not | tied to technology. | | considering every one and their dog has a phone, the | incredible rise of digital payments, more and more time being | spent online, more people globally getting online, more | expansive internet ever year, cars and their media systems, | electric cars, all devices connected to the internet and so | many other things i'm missing, i would qualify this statement | as false. | ecshafer wrote: | When I was younger I would have agreed with you negatively, | that apple hides the technology too much. But now I agree | with you and think Ive and Jobs did get it on a product | level. Tech should do something for you, and ideally you | should not realize you are using technology. | | Imagine you are a carpenter, and you build houses. You only | have ever used a hammer and nails for nailing. One day you | get a super fancy nail gun that you adjust pressure and tweak | 1 million settings and it has a lazer sight and cloud | connectivity etc you would probably hate it. But if you get a | nail gun that is idiot proof and works well with no tweaks | you would love it. | | Technology exists to solve prolbems not for its own sake. | fidotron wrote: | Yes, I think the difference is something like classic Apple | viewed computers as things within a lived in external | environment, classic Microsoft (Gates, at least) views the | physical world as merely an inconvenience getting in the way | of your connection with the metaverse, for want of a better | term. | | The big balance to make with ambient computing is to ensure | the humans using it are the entities that have agency, and | they don't merely give it up to the system. Arguably things | like Tiktok, Facebook etc. demonstrate people already have. | | There was a project in Japan called TRON, at least | superficially a sort of academic/industrial operating system | research effort, however, the leader used to write | introductions to their annual conferences, and one of these | contains a rant about why virtual reality is misguided and | the internet of things is the way to go, and this is from | like 1995. | tomrod wrote: | Humane looks promising. | CalChris wrote: | > I have never been so bored with the state of tech. | | First, I agree that crypto and AI are much VC nonsense. Not so | much make someone else money as consume it while dominating the | conversation. Maybe AI will put customer support people out of | a job. Congratulations VCs, that's what you were put on the | planet for. Bravo, well done. | | Otherwise, maybe tech is too good. | | Wearables? Apple Watch and iPhone. I'm very happy with the | MacBook Air that I'm typing this on. I'm quite happy with my | EVs. When I need to see a doc, I send a message on MyChart. | Chat with a friend, WhatsApp. When I need to look something up | chances are pretty high that there's something on Wikipedia. | When I want a book, I check it out online and pick it up at the | library. Or I'll buy it on Alibris or Amazon. A nice late | edition copy of my college calculus book cost $5 + shipping. I | can travel anywhere and have a map and be able to pay for | something with my credit card. When I want a quick tutorial and | drills on Kyrie Irving's moves, it's on YouTube. Chess? I can | play programs that would destroy Bobby Fischer. | | As for systems and infra, I'm very happy with LLVM, Linux, | FreeBSD, homebrew, .... Readily available consumer systems are | infinitely fast compared to what we grew up with. No Apple IIgs | for me, thank you Boomer. | | My complaint? No late night haunts because everyone is online. | | I'll grant that what isn't there is the sense of the new. But | what is there is really, really good. | 999900000999 wrote: | I'm actually really happy with the progress made with | wearables. | | Smart watches are great, the Humane pin is cool ( massively | overpriced considering you could probably give these out to | anyone who prepays for a year of service). | | I imagine the next great step will be AI powered pseudo code. | fidotron wrote: | I think what's funny about these videos is they aren't exactly | dependent on advances in computing, but in display technology | and network bandwidth. I've been annoying people for years by | pointing out software is often the easiest part of all of this, | and anyone doubting that should attempt to build a physical | device, let alone a state of the art one. | | Really the canary in this particular coal mine was when Silicon | Graphics hit the wall in the late 90s. They were the epitome of | pushing this dream that with visual computing everyone will be | able to leverage their own intelligence that much more, leading | to a better world, and it just doesn't seem to happen - we all | just use it to distract each other instead. In the world today | you have SGI level graphics in everything, and yet the | applications of it are so mundane. For example, you don't see | people doing finance visualizations in immersive 3D, we don't | see people using VR for Minority Report style interfaces even | though they are now viable, and even the Mac Finder is no | longer spatial. Ultimately I think our culture has lost hope in | the whole idea of visual intelligence. | kd913 wrote: | May be true, but that coffee table is still something I want. | | Given it existed 16 years ago why did the concept just get | culled? We are now just left with boring coffee tables, photo | sharing, music selection, movie picking, event planning, all | stuck in the same model for the last 15 years. | | Where are my smart glasses and HUDs? | | We all have gone back to being excited over talking with a | chatbot via text. Personally I would rather have some mates | over having fun with the above table. | zeusk wrote: | These videos and the VR demos have an eering similarity | (especially ones from Microsoft and Apple). | kqr wrote: | Is even a single one of these concrete enough to be verifiable? | Is this what passes for hypotheses in our business? | | If you make predictions, _please_ make them concrete enough | (actual numbers!) that we can tell in hindsight whether you were | right or wrong. Without being able to judge someone 's prediction | track record, it's all useless for informing any real decision. | sapiogram wrote: | I do appreciate that he linked previous years' prediction at | the bottom. Predictions are still too vague to be falsifiable | even with hindsight, but it's a start. | Slartie wrote: | Well, he promoted remote learning in 2021 to "earn its place" | in schools. | | Reality: absolutely everywhere, remote learning has been a | shit-show which no one, not the parents, nor the kids, nor | the teachers, wants to ever repeat. | | All other predictions in 2021 were lame and obvious | continuations of already-old trends. Easy to get those at | least not totally wrong. The "remote learning" one was new, | clearly influenced by the pandemic, and thus a risky one. And | he pulled an epic fail on that one. | BarryMilo wrote: | Internet comments are always so polarized... Some people | liked remote learning, some didn't. I know some college | profs who were glad to stay home in -20C weather. Others | hated it even then. | | It's true that remote teaching didn't take over the world, | but I doubt people's appreciation of it had anything to do | with it. It just wasn't a long enough event to change | anything permanently. | vl wrote: | But he is the CTO at Amazon. All he can do is to signal about | Amazon positioning and to influence to advance Amazon agenda. | He can't publish any real predictions. For all we know he can | actually think completely opposite things from what is | published, for example. | bjt12345 wrote: | Should we short Amazon then? | ilrwbwrkhv wrote: | No. They are all pseudo garbage Edgar Cayce style nonsense. | Just look at his previous year predictions. | | This is the problem with this generation of leet coders. They | have become too soft and put people like this dude and trends | on a pedestal. | vl wrote: | This is interesting honorific, many tech sector workers have | doctor degrees, but nobody ever calls them doctors. | | But curiously it is used in the title, which doesn't follow HN | title guidelines (i.e. editiorized from original article title). | senderista wrote: | IME nobody in US STEM academia uses it either, at least among | themselves. | | AWS uses it in external comms because "Dr." impresses suits. | tarofchaos wrote: | lol his 2023 predictions were way off..just saying | vl wrote: | Yes, earlier years were a bit better, but still. As CTO of | Amazon he also needs to push the party line. These | "predictions" are signaling, not actual predictions, privately | he can think completely different things. | nbzso wrote: | I'm expecting a sobering year for AI in 2024, a result fueled by | marketing gimmicks, closed training data and weights, false | promises, chaos in recruiting, more tech layoffs due to economy | (and false hopes for AI-powered workforce replacement), | demotivation in the young workforce, etc. | | Another reality hit for AI implementation will be the cost of | generative AI API services and environmental impact of the | process of training the models. | | But I am not a Doctor, and CTO of big monopolist and I don't have | a stake to sell you AI cloud services. So who knows.. | bluGill wrote: | I think it will be a few more years before the hype dies down | enough for sane heads to realize that. Change the year though | and you are correct. | reqo wrote: | Another probable bad side effect of AI will be that a | generation of developers will become dependent on | copilot/chatgpt to be able to write code! They will definitely | perform worse than before llm era without the help of a llm! | mewpmewp2 wrote: | Same could be said about developing with Notepad as opposed | to modern IDEs though. | thinkingtoilet wrote: | Did modern IDEs start writing code for you when you made | the jump from Notepad? | mjr00 wrote: | In a lot of ways, yeah. Autocomplete is an absolute game | changer and one of the biggest reasons that static typing | came back in vogue and crushed dynamic languages. Massive | productivity gains when you can ctrl+space and see all of | the methods available on a variable, or use a hotkey to | figure out if the method you want to call is `do_foo_bar` | or `do_foo_and_bar`. | pipes wrote: | I'm not sure I buy that argument about dynamic languages. | You are probably right in that auto complete played a | role, but for me working on a pure node js app back in | 2014ish, it was a nightmare of runtime issues that type | checking would have eliminated. The productivity gain in | a typed language was not having to write unit tests for | things that static typing does for free. | mjr00 wrote: | I agree with you, autocomplete definitely isn't the only | reason for static typing making a comeback and dynamic | language popularity dying off (and the big legacy names | like Javascript and Python have Typescript and | mypy/pyright to transform them into a facsimile of one). | I think a lot of it has to do with maturity, where a lot | of "move fast and break things" devs who loved untyped | Node/PHP/Python got burned by bugs and impossible to | comprehend legacy codebases and slowly realized the value | of static typing. But that type of understanding takes | years. A novice programmer can see the value of | autocomplete and not having to check the docs or | stackoverflow for the name of a method pretty much | instantly. | wintogreen74 wrote: | autocomplete accurately took care of _a lot_ of the | boilerplate; that low-hanging fruit has been picked. AI | is not doing the same IME, the pay-off has been a lot | slower coming, and sometimes it 's making the work more | painful. | mjr00 wrote: | I do agree. It's hard to get an unbiased assessment of | how many developers are _actually_ using generative AI | (copilot /chatgpt) for work, and in what capacity they do | use them. Anecdotally, at my org of ~40 devs, we | encouraged everyone to try out Copilot and let us know if | they wanted a full license; only 2 people took up the | offer, and they use it either for generating unit tests | or translating English data logic to pandas syntax (which | it does seem quite good at!) | blastro wrote: | All skills that the AI facilitates will be like this until | all we can do is operate the AI | willsmith72 wrote: | Exactly. We don't need an abacus. We need a human able to | input the right variables into a computer and get the | result. | digging wrote: | But when would they not have the help of an LLM? We are all | dependent on the tools we use. That's not a bad thing. | | The biggest risk is that it perhaps becomes more difficult to | sift out bad developers from good ones, because LLMs let bad | developers "cheat" more easily. But that's not a new problem, | just a new era of the same problem. | dewey wrote: | That's probably what everyone said when auto-complete was | invented and IDEs were used. The actual code written in most | cases isn't so important, the architecture, experience in | building systems and debugging skills across a whole stack | are what counts. | runako wrote: | This argument rears its head every time the state of the art | in developer tools makes a credible threat to improve. | | And yet relatively few developers use C, assembly, or machine | language as their daily drivers. I've even met accomplished | developers who don't know how to write a compiler! | | It's fine for developers to become dependent on tooling that | makes them more efficient. This is a good thing, and we want | more of this! | dvngnt_ wrote: | I said the same thing when they made compilers and cobol | la64710 wrote: | I don't think one have to be either to see that the future will | mean increased choices and speed because of AI. Codegen AI | tools may not do everything a developer do but I see it | certainly evolving to a point where it can "understand" the | context of a large code base and generate useful snippets of | code as per the desires of the product owner. Yeah | "development" as we know it may become obsolete but it would | probably be two decades from now. | echelon wrote: | > I'm expecting a sobering year for AI in 2024 | | I expect a sobering year for illustrators [1], animators [2], | musicians [3], game designers, publishers, and news outlets [4] | as GenAI starts to make their fields accessible to everyone. | | The prevailing opinion on HN is to sleep on this like crypto, | which is baffling to me. The outputs are so good and are | leading to entirely new classes of products, not to mention | orders of magnitude reduction in time and cost structures. | | This is the most exciting moment in tech of the last 30 years, | yet there's so much "nobody would use Dropbox" and "old man | yells at cloud" negative forecasting. | | Entire industries are going to be disrupted by this. Y'all are | sleeping on it. | | [1] https://playgroundai.com/ [2] | https://pikalabs.org/showcase/ [3] https://www.suno.ai/ [4] | https://www.channel1.ai/ | mjr00 wrote: | Comparing generative AI favorably to crypto is an odd choice, | given that crypto and blockchain are the poster children for | "massively overhyped tech that led to absolutely nothing." | echelon wrote: | I'm comparing HN attitudes. People dismiss AI as if it were | crypto. | | > that led to absolutely nothing. | | This is the part most of you are completely blind to. It's | astonishing to me that you don't see the step function | changes happening. I guess that means less competition, | though. | | By the end of the year, anyone will be able to make brand | new Taylor Swift music that sounds good. The average child | will be able to animate short films. | | This is insane. Both the fact that sci-fi possibilities are | tangibly right ahead of us, and the fact that so many | people are dismissing it outright. | mjr00 wrote: | > By the end of the year, anyone will be able to make | brand new Taylor Swift music that sounds good. The | average child will be able to animate short films. | | But will I be able to listen to that music and watch | those films in my fully autonomous vehicle which will be | available in 2016... I mean 2020... I mean 2025... I mean | 2040? | RandomLensman wrote: | The problem is that while those things might be true, | their impact might be quite limited. Will all the kids do | their own short films? Will people stop listening to | Taylor Swift? | | More "trinkets and gadgets" is a continuation of the last | decade, the real question is if things remain incremental | (maybe up to a percent more GDP growth) or become truly | transformational. Claims to the later do invite scrutiny. | riversflow wrote: | > anyone will be able to make a brand new Taylor Swift | | I was with you until this. I think music is actually | informative for what we can expect in visual arts and | generative models generally; synths, drum machines, and | music production equipment and software share very | similar qualities with this new stuff, yet we still have | rockstars like Swift. | tlivolsi wrote: | I've been shamed for using LLM's heavily despite my | productivity being through the roof. | mjr00 wrote: | Shamed by whom? And how can those people tell you're using | LLMs? Is it possible that whatever output you're producing | with LLMs isn't very good? | daemonologist wrote: | I don't think HN is sleeping on generative AI - it's been | fairly prevalent near the top of the front page. | | I agree that some creative fields are going to start feeling | real impacts, not necessarily because models have gotten | super creative, but they're becoming more practical for rote | tasks which otherwise might "pay the bills." For example, | Google's recent work on style alignment: https://style- | aligned-gen.github.io/ . | johnxie wrote: | On the topic of AI, you've brought up some valid points, and I | understand the skepticism, especially given the AI hype cycle. | However, there's also plenty to get excited about beyond the | marketing gimmicks. | | Consider the recent Google demo. It was recreated and, while | still fun and impressive, it's definitely not ready for | commercial use. You can see it at | https://sagittarius.greg.technology. This demo is a preview of | what's to come, and I think it's important for us to stay open- | minded. | | I believe that in 2024, we're going to witness a significant | expansion in what's possible with AI, while costs decrease. | Increased contributions in the open-source community will | likely fuel another wave of startups and new applications. | sien wrote: | Check out this on AWS's Q from Corey Quinn . | | https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-degenerative-ai- | blund... | | Generative AI is awesome but also crazily overhyped. | | Remember when Siri / Alexa / Cortana / the Google thing were | the big thing? | | Now presumably there are more Alexas in cupboards than | anywhere else. | rqtwteye wrote: | I expect this to go down the same way as with the internet in | 1990s and 2000s. Lots of potential followed by hype, big bubble | with lots of bad ideas, crash, good ideas survive, wide | adoption and then AI will be part of everybody's life. | FredPret wrote: | ... or death! Let's hope not though. | WheatMillington wrote: | >more tech layoffs due to economy | | Why do you think the economy will worsen next year? | willsmith72 wrote: | > Unburdened by the undifferentiated heavy lifting of tasks like | upgrading Java versions, developers can focus on the creative | work that drives innovation. | | I totally agree that AI is going to make it easier and easier for | engineers to get closer to the customer and work on real | problems. The number of specialist "IT" people, or separate | backend and frontend classifications, will decrease and the | startup and product world will greatly benefit. | Slartie wrote: | Here's my prediction: 2025 predictions by the Amazon CTO will not | be written by the Amazon CTO, but by an LLM. | ilrwbwrkhv wrote: | Ok literally none of his predictions have any merit. They are | absolutely bullshit. My bullshit detector has not gone higher | this month. No wonder he is the CTO of Amazon. All of these | companies are on their downhill dump. | pipes wrote: | I struggled to get through the culturally aware section. | Apparently the technology should define its responses in terms of | what ever identity group the user has been lumped into. For some | reason if it doesn't do this, it won't have the same reach. | jschveibinz wrote: | Here are some additional tech predictions relevant to the HN | community to compare and contrast: | | Gartner tech trends: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner- | top-10-strategic... | | Gartner AI predictions: https://www.cio.inc/future-ai-gartners- | predictions-for-2024-... | | Dell predictions: https://www.dell.com/en-us/perspectives/top- | tech-predictions... | | Deloitte predictions: | https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/about/press-room/deloitte... | | BDO predictions: | https://www.bdo.com/insights/industries/technology/bdo-tech-... | | NTT predictions: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ntt-announces- | key-technology-... | | Techopedia: https://www.techopedia.com/tech-layoffs-predictions | | MIT Tech Review: | https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/23/1045416/10-break... | gregw2 wrote: | Yeah, there is always the high-level view of these things and the | low-level. | | The way LLMs make stuff up is oft-remarked upon and is unclear | whether it's a dealbreaker or not but it might be. | | Here's an Werner/AWS-specific LLM anecdote along those lines: | | I went onto AWS's LLM Q for the first time today, a little chat | icon nicely/helpfully linked from their documentation pages (when | logged into my AWS account) and asked it a question which I was | unable to find an answer in their docs or via | Google/Bing/StackOverflow after 5-10 minutes of searching. | What Redshift SQL query can I write to tell whether the instance | I am connected to is a Redshift Serverless or a Redshift | Provisioned cluster? | | (I have migrated Redshift clusters in Dev/Nonprod to Serverless | to reduce cost, but featureset is not identical so some of our | app code is sensitive to the differences and needs to detect | which type of environment is present before executing. The | release number, but not the instance type, can be found in | Redshift SELECT VERSION();.) | | AWS Q LLM replies: To check if an Amazon Redshift | cluster is provisioned or serverless, you can run the following | SQL query: SELECT cluster_type FROM svv_cluster_info; | The cluster_type will return either "provisioned" or | "serverless". You can only connect to and query | Serverless clusters using the Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2. | Provisioned clusters can be queried using either Query Editor v1 | or v2. [...+more text on the differences and a | bulleted list of 3 weblinks/sources provided...] | | Wow! Awesome! This answered my question perfectly! The response | and code is formatted beautifully just like real documentation. | There are a lot of SVV_ system views and I guess I just missed | this one. I am at this point very impressed. | | I go to actually try the above query on my serverless and | provisioned clusters... Serverless: SQL Error | [42P01]: ERROR: relation "svv_cluster_info" does not exist | Provisioned: SQL Error [42P01]: ERROR: relation | "svv_cluster_info" does not exist | | Another attempt answered similarly affirmatively, this time | mentioning an imaginary "SVV_CLUSTER" view (which also didn't | work.) | | Even as a chatbot, the most obvious use case, this is is not | really meeting the mark. | | I know it's brand new and rushed out of the door for re:Invent | two weeks ago and I know it'll get better... but it was a bit | hard to read Werner's article a few hours later and take it | seriously. My first Bayesian prior is now a "err, no". | carlosjobim wrote: | As long as AI is controlled by Silicon Valley, it will never | become culturally aware, because the people controlling it are | not the slightest culturally aware. They think diversity sits in | the skin colour, and that's about as far as they are willing to | think about it, because they are intellectually lazy and have | dead souls, without any curiosity for the world. | | They train their AI on some false assumptions that fits their | political faith, and foreigners who need to use their AIs will | have to learn about the biases and work around them. Just like it | is today. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-13 23:00 UTC)