Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason
joanwestenberg.comThe race is real, the destination is fake.
In other words, the industry players and their financiers are locked in competition within a self perpetuating feedback loop without any exit to "success".
Nvidia builds hardware that OpenAI buys. But OpenAI struggles to do this because they're actually losing money.
So in a stroke of brilliance to keep the loop going, Nvidia invests in OpenAI (or at least says they're considering it) which encourages others to do the same for fear of missing out on some of the wild success that Nvidia is having.
And the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round --- for now.
I just wonder when somebody is going to have an opinion on this subject they take seriously enough to write a blog post themselves.
I did, almost a month ago: https://tsak.dev/posts/der-tag-zieht-den-jahrhundertweg/
(despite the German title, it is written in English)
>Be weird enough that nobody can copy you without becoming you.
That could be something to keep in mind :)