Just in time for AI winter.
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@datarama There's been a massive falloff in AI investment already as AI companies have failed to come up with any kind of business model.
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@freakazoid Right. The last investment news I saw was that ridiculous funding round OpenAI just finished last week (despite them apparently being a money incinerator at this point.)
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@datarama It's a pyramid scheme. People are investing in them directly, but their potential customers are pulling back because they don't see any ROI.
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@datarama Of course, look at how long they let Uber get away without making any money. And Twitter never demonstrated a sustainable business model.
We need more short-seller attacks.
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@freakazoid I think the difference this time is that a lot of investors *REALLY* want to believe in a future where they can soon get rid of all the annoying humans.
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@datarama I think it goes way beyond that. The goal of AGI is world domination. The people investing in it think it's the next atom bomb. Decoupling capital from labor is just a stepping stone to that.
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@freakazoid Of course, but I don't think most of the investor class (outside of the robot cult itself) actually believes in the Electronic God story. They *do* believe in Mass Layoff As A Service.
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@freakazoid What I mean is: I don't think the motivations of eg. Sam Altman and Satya Nadella are the same. Altman wants to build God, Nadella wants to sell mass-layoff-as-a-service.
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@datarama I am not convinced you can believe in one of those and not the other.
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@freakazoid I'm not sure! (But I could be wrong.)
If you think very little of workers, you can imagine replacing us with something that falls far short of "general intelligence".
(Note how Altman keeps talking about atom bombs, whereas Nadella talks about steam engines.)
