Cory DoctorowApr 13

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

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Show threadMx. Aria Stewart
@pluralistic what’s weird is that there are now dozens of compeletly profitable if commodity ai companies. Smaller models but quite useful and definitely sustainable businesses. Running these things works. Training is still bloody expensive but perhaps reasonable investment.
Apr 13 at 11:50amWeb