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Add to that how the US is quickly turning into a global pariah.

But AI cannot fail...it can only be failed.

Also if they were actually right and it will magically stay cheap and can magically do all their work for them, doesn't that mean they're just training their own replacements? Oh wait, these are probably professional meeting-attenders rather than people who do things. That makes a little more sense

The irony of coca-cola selling bottled water in recycled plastic bottle while simultaneously supporting an unsustainable technology that wastes water cooling their data centers…. Think I’ll go walk into the ocean while it still exists…

GenAI is no better now than it was 24 months ago. Any technology which fails to markedly improve in that time frame is crap.

Every so often in the middle of one of the hype threads you'll get a throwaway line like "of course you shouldn't use it anywhere where errors matter". Ok fine.

Interesting to contrast corporate resistance to unionisation and collective bargaining on wages terms and conditions that might push up labour costs with willingness to become dependent on monopoly AI labour supplier.

Exactly, they HAVE to. When I was responsible for selling LLM solutions nothing I did could show us coming close to covering even half our costs. Given that it’s a scam every megacorp is now dumping its entire future into, it’s one million percent going to be the public socializing this loss too.

Truest thing I've read today.