Samuel
@samuel.fm
I for one am shocked to learn that deploying intelligent machines at scale is more complicated than deploying postgres
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social· 15 Jul
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Samuel
> I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. these ai researchers have clearly never heard of Ruby on Rails
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Morgan
These AI researchers have very possibly never deployed regular production software, so
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Ben
At this point, I think people are just cooking up any criticism they can think of that might appeal to a certain demographic? "Oh, it doesn't scale? I don't know what that means, but maybe it will make the engineers hate AI like I do."
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Miles B
Efficiency and scalability are actually good things that we should care about. We live in a world finite resources, so just throwing increasingly more hardware at problems is an unsustainable approach
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garrison
complicated yes, but more complicated than deploying postgres? let's not get ahead of ourselves
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Samuel
true it’s possible I picked the only software that’s worse at being deployed
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Samuel
by economic and engineering measures, the moon landings might be the worst technology ever deployed
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