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Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I dunno about him; but genuinely I'm excited about AI. Blows my mind each passing day ;)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

He is correct. It is mostly people cashing out on stuff that isn't there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That makes sense. He's old enough and close enough thematically to have seen a few of these tech hype cycles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

it is basically like how self improvement folks are using quantum

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

"duh."

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nice replacement topic after the maintainer drama last week

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[+] [email protected] -66 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (32 children)

Honestly, he's wrong though.

I know tons of full stack developers who use AI to GREATLY speed up their workflow. I've used AI image generators to put something I wanted into the concept stage before I paid an artist to do the work with the revisions I wanted that I couldn't get AI to produce properly.

And first and foremost, they're a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it. They are terrible at deducing things themselves, because they can't 'think', or coming up with solutions that others haven't already - but so long as people are aware of those limitations, then they're a pretty good tool to have.

It's a reactionary opinion when people jump to the 'but they're stealing art!' -- isn't your brain also stealing art when it's inspired by others art? Artists don't just POOF, and have the capability to be artists. They learn slowly over time, using others as inspiration or as training to improve. That's all stable diffusors do - just a lot faster.

[–] index 1 points 3 weeks ago

Half of the people here linus included must have never use stable diffusion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Let me guess. Dumped by an art girl and anxious about the $600 you invested?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AI can give me a blueprint for my logic. Then I, as a developer, make the code run. Cuts my scripting time in half.

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