LogFAQs > #974873644

Random rants/takes about things that are being spread unchallenged, mostly politics channels that dip into tech because they're trying to be a jack of all trades.

"Games are taking up too much hard drive space because devs have no financial incentive to keep file sizes small, and bloat your hard drive." This is completely unfounded. The amount of effort it takes to compress game files is very small. The reason people are saying this is because 200 GB is bigger than 60 GB, no more thought is being put into this than that. Games are bigger because the textures and models are higher resolution. Modders are not releasing patches that magically make the game files smaller. Do you want your games to look the same way forever?

"AI is a gimmick/fad pushed by tech bros." This is a very uneducated take. Tell that to the language models that are upheaving customer service, the models that are helping physics researchers predict the inner workings of the most fundamental particles, the models that are making graphics and light transport simulations run 300 times faster, the models that are enabling robots to navigate surroundings and complete tasks. AI is just getting started. I'm not even scratching the surface here. I cannot possibly imagine that AI is going to become less prevalent in the future.

"AI is evil/detrimental to society/a capitalist nightmare." Technology is not good or evil. It will help in some places and hurt in others. On average, it will make the world a better place. If the experts can't tell you what's going to happen in the future, you can't either.

"AI is not true AI, and the name is a misnomer. It's not really thinking." AI literally simulates neurons almost the exact same way they work in your head. Language models work using the same logic your brain does. In that regard, you can view a language model as a human with brain damage, where the part of the brain that contemplates what was just said, anticipates what will be said in the future, any other of the modular brain functions required to create a general intelligence are not present.

Mostly Adam Ruins Everything. Very smart and educated guy. Sociologists hate engineers because it gives them little dick syndrome and they were snubbed by them in college. They can't control themselves and just "not have a take" on it, or, dare I even suggest, consult a real engineer on your takes.