It's scary to see how a world pre-dumbed down by social media and utterly failed in morality—one that hasn't managed to solve the climate crisis, inequality, or pollution in decades—has now latched onto a technology whose very name is a lie: "AI".
There is no real artificial intelligence on this planet. LLMs are not that. After some flashy early successes, big corporations rushed to apply them everywhere, invented hundreds of billions, and now they have to sell the illusion.
They're lying—as usual—and have driven the world into a race where half-baked, non-functional, unfit products are being sold as "artificial intelligence," when in fact they are nothing of the sort.
The result of these technologies is massive energy consumption, a renewed PR push to make nuclear power look good again, layoffs, rising stress, and constant deception. And yet the march continues, because anyone who refuses to lie with a smile and keep up with the herd gets left behind. LLMs promise fast, flashy results in the short term—but these solutions are not true intelligence at all, just an LLM. So, they perform tricks, utilise vector databases for pre-filtering results, mimic things, create larger datasets, and make promises of achieving a general intelligence level soon.
And they need more energy, more energy, and more energy, at a time when we should be reducing energy consumption and solving climate change. Oh, man, this seems to be an absolute disaster. I think this age will prove that we no longer need the myth of the devil, evil, and other kinds of mythological concepts. Humans, we are here... that is enough.
It's remarkable how quickly we've ended up here. I wonder when illusion and self-deception will reach the point where collapse, pain and anger become inevitable—because it seems almost certain that trouble is coming. And once again, it will be the people at the bottom who bear the brunt of the damage caused by corporations, investors, the media, and the political elite.
The big AI-related companies sold a technology that is not what they claimed it to be. They learnt the same lesson from the dot-com bubble as politicians did from admitting mistakes: do not admit mistakes, keep telling lies, and control the media.
Using LLM for everything is like having a hammer and trying to use it for flying, washing your teeth, and painting a picture.
Ship of Fools, money, money, money, revenue, revenue, revenue.
The worst part of that is that LLM is a tremendous scientific and engineering success, but using it for everything is merely a result of immense greed.
There will be trouble—serious trouble. The painting by Bosch, "Ship of Fools," is a precise depiction of this civilisation.
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