JA WestenbergMar 6

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

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Show threadMartijn Frazer
@Daojoan It's bewildering how Silicon Valley is obsessed with "moving fast" but doesn't seem to care where in particular they are moving so quickly towards.
Mar 6 at 4:08amWeb
Show threadThe Witch of Crow BriarMar 6
@Tijn @Daojoan they’re all happy to deepthroat copies of “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, and wake up screaming “move fast and break things”, just so long as they never have to carry the burden or risk of experiencing an actual original thought.
Show threadOpen RiskMar 6
@Tijn @Daojoan they don't care because the surveillance adtech spigot (and oligopoly control in anything tech related) is secure and prints billions of money every quarter. They need to do *something* with all that flow 😔. The vast amounts they spend on moonshoots, lobbying (even vast open source infrastructure) etc. would have bankrupted entities that are subject to normal market pressures and regulation. But as this situation is now turning decades old, everybody assumes it is normal 🤣