AI is the greatest money-wasting scheme humanity has ever invented
telegraph.co.ukAt some level I hope this is true, and that AI won't be replacing millions of desk jobs. But I don't think that's the case.
> AI won't be replacing millions of desk jobs.
As long as AI cannot test its creation, we will need "millions of desk jobs" just to test its output.
Yeah, that's where I'm at as well. I wish Team Stochastic Parrot were correct.
The world is a more terrifying place if you think about the murk surrounding a thing that is neither a complete person nor a washing machine, but some completely unknown third thing, with traits and aspects of the other two.
Banging pots together will not lift the staggering strangeness of this frontier, where either some things that seem to be people aren't, and familiar faces might instead be worn, like a sock puppet, by a tentacle of ChatGPT, Claude, or any one of the other leviathanic near-minds, in their racks and rows, humming on the nectar of bespoke mini nuclear plants.
I used to love watching and reading sci fi, but it's superceded by present events.
I have a running theory that although AI will continue on (just as the internet did). That between the rapidly accelerating technology and methodologies as well as the thriving open source community. That no company will be able to extract meaningful value that they can return to share holders, and that the margins will remain low on the back of high energy costs.