Lili SaintcrowHuh. I’m starting to see some publishing-adjacent folks who were all hot to jump on the “AI” slopwagon apparently having second thoughts.
Interesting.
(What’s the technical term for when the second-string or fellow-traveler grifters start leaping from the doomed ship?)
Dan Sugalski@lilithsaintcrow for the AI grifters? I think the term is “Check out my new quantum computing startup!”
@wordshaper Ooof. Yeah, you're right; by all indications, “quantum" is the new grift, and they're starting to ramp that up now.
Charlie Stross@lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper The "quantum" grift failed to launch back around 2004, if memory serves, but it's been bubbling under ever since.
Given the current focus on LLMs I reckon the next bubble could well be quantum machine learning, which crosses the streams:
Thomas Sturm
Dr David Mills@dtl @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper NFTs of quantum large language models on the blockchain, hosted on orbital data centers for efficient cooling!
I know, I know, SOMEONE will pay me money for it.
@dtl @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper … But I forgot to work in new nuclear reactors somewhere. Or maybe Lunar 3He mining to fuel the aneutronic fusion reactors we don't know how to build yet (instead of being sensible and running them on 11B, which is lying around in heaps and drifts on Earth).
Chuckles