Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha...
by rvz on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:36AM
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> Crypto still hasn't proven itself to be useful in any way shape or form that isn't immediately over-shadowed by a different medium.
Seems like it has proven very useful for Stripe [0], Moneygram [1], TicketMaster [2], etc.
Unlike AI which continues to consume tons of resources to burn the entire world down to the ground without any viable efficient methods of training, inference or fine-tuning their AI models in the past decade with its chatbot hype and gimmickry [3], crypto does not need to consume tons of CO2 to operate, thanks to alternative and greener consensus algorithms available in production today. [4]
Being 'useful' is not an excuse to destroy the planet around untrustworthy AI models getting themselves confused over a single pixel or hallucinating in the middle of the road.
Seems like it has proven very useful for Stripe [0], Moneygram [1], TicketMaster [2], etc.
Unlike AI which continues to consume tons of resources to burn the entire world down to the ground without any viable efficient methods of training, inference or fine-tuning their AI models in the past decade with its chatbot hype and gimmickry [3], crypto does not need to consume tons of CO2 to operate, thanks to alternative and greener consensus algorithms available in production today. [4]
Being 'useful' is not an excuse to destroy the planet around untrustworthy AI models getting themselves confused over a single pixel or hallucinating in the middle of the road.
[0] https://stripe.com/gb/use-cases/crypto
[1] https://stellar.org/moneygram
[2] https://business.ticketmaster.com/business-solutions/nft-tok...
[3] https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training...
[4] https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/ethereum-blockchain...