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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by stingraycharles on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:27AM (#35729569)
Eh, I worked for a video analytics startup in 2016 and we had investors (and a CEO) who were desperately pushing to do stuff with AI because everyone was doing stuff with AI. Needless to say, the startup ended up alienating their customers and eventually failed and “exited” for a five figure sum.

The current “wave” of AI and deep learning and whatnot has been going on for almost a decade, longer than blockchain and definitely longer than NFTs if you ask me. Not saying that it’s not overhyped, but it’s definitely not a new hype.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by kokanee on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:55AM (#35729977)
My take is that there has been an ongoing "AI/ML" hype cycle, but this latest craze is a more specific LLM hype. I expect to see a chatbot that can help you derive insights from everything you've uploaded.

For Dropbox, I predict that this will go exactly the way Dropbox Paper went.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by jonny_eh on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:04PM (#35730154)
The new hype is generative AI, sparked by image generators like Midjourney and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.
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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by ghaff on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:12PM (#35730291)
"AI" (or whatever you want to call it) is real. I'm still on the fence around whether LLMs are as transformative--at least over the next few years--as some people think they are. But they're useful even in their current state.

I also had a batch of photos to process from an event and updated my Lightroom. The new Denoise did a really nice job with these relatively noisy/highish ISO pics. And the Adaptive preset to punch up the subject (speakers at an event) was pretty nice too.

Not game changing IMO but a nice workflow addition.

NFTs on the other hand always felt like beanie babies. Blockchain in the enterprise distributed ledger sense felt like it had some potential use cases although I was always pretty skeptical which seems to have been justified.

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