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    People keep comparing AI to the likes of NFTs, the blockchain, and 3D printers. All of those were over-promised niche products but AI has already proven its worth.

    They were all about what they could do, but AI is already doing it.

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      People keep comparing AI to the likes of NFTs, the blockchain, and 3D printers. All of those were over-promised niche products

      I don’t know why you’re throwing shade at 3d printers, they’re great products that allow you to make random shit and iterate prototypes. A friend of mine has some, and along with fidgets and shit, she’s used it to replace parts that the OEMs won’t sell at reasonable prices.

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        Commercial 3D printers didn’t really revolutionalize anything outside of making prototyping quicker. It’s a useful tool for certain applications, but there is no reason for every hone to have one as was promised 15 years ago when the technology became widespread.

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      I absolutely do not believe that AI has proven itself to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars that has been poured into it

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      “AI” / LLMs ARE over-promised, over-funded product that has absolutely not proven it’s worth the energy and investment being poured in it.

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      Now that there are decent Text to 3D models I use AI with my 3D printer to basically talk into my computer and it divines a physical object. We’re closer to Star Trek’s Replicator than I would’ve ever thought imaginable in my lifetime. These “over-promised niche products” are simply nacent technologies that have not had the benefit of maturation.

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        Text to 3D models I use AI with my 3D printer

        Can you please share some models you printed this way? Curious to see. I have 3D printers at home and tried few 3D models e.g. PifHUD or TripoSR but never went all the way to printing any as I didn’t find the quality sufficient. This was months ago or more so I imagine better models exist, also maybe you have a better workflow.

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        Text to 3D models I use AI with my 3D printer

        Can you please share how you do that