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I like the idea of $7T being invested in the processing space. I don't like the idea of Altman, a 38 year-old who already struggles to manage a software firm half-owned by Microsoft, being at the helm of one of the world's most complex supply chain pieces.
But who else but him? Musk would squander the opportunity. Established firms aren't interested in dedicating everything to disrupting a market they don't have existing toeholds in.
Altman reminds me of Adam Neumann from the now defunct (but wildly successful personal project) WeWork. He promises to draw the incision that'll make the cutting edge. But how he plans to do so is made woefully opaque; all we get is internal drama from his projects that slip out.
I think AI has an addressable market of about $5T at the current frontier, and what stops it from actually getting there are immature liability structures; who gets fricked if an inaccurate model strays the line? When a therapybot tells a cute twink to kill himself when the cute twink lists the reasons they should.
I'm staking my fortune on AI integration, so I want Altman to succeed, even though I'm skeptical of people with his complex.
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Whats amazing to me is america went from losing the AI wars to china to absolutely destroying them in under 5 years.
Id guess the government is pretty fricking serious about keeping that edge and will funnel r-slurred money into it.
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You are a stupid, misinformed person. Stop consuming trash tier media, read a book, get a real job, and start thinking critically.
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The US government themselves said they were behind in AI lmao.
The guy in charge resigned over it:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/united-states-has-lost-ai-battle-china-pentagons-ex-software-chief-says-2021-10-11/
Chinese companies, Chaillan said, were obliged to work with their government and were making "massive investment" in AI without regard to ethics.
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bro when you post on technical topics it makes it really clear that you read journo trash and believe it, much like you did with Russiagate
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Find me ever talking about russiagate and refute anything I just said.
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What do you mean "losing to china?"
Until there's an alternative to Nvidia GPUs, but mainly CUDA, the USA is selling shovels during a gold rush.
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I linked the article further down.
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You'd think so, but consider how talented Euro govts are at stifling domestic innovation for the sake of scoring points with their most obnoxious stakeholders.
The left in the US seems to hate AI because it'll take jobs away and widen the class gap, and I don't trust democrats in power not to throw them a bone by really fricking start-ups and making data collection expensive/manual, or forcing some harebrained ethical standards of use that SCOTUS doesn't immediately take up on 1st amendment violations.
But I guess if CA hasn't quashed tech innovation with their hamfist approach, maybe I should be more optimistic about the federal response.
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ARM? They're good at designing chips and licensing to / supporting production by loads of other manufacturers.
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I don't know the chip space tbh, just that it's really concentrated and highly profitable, which is a bad thing for innovation when taken together.
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I just posted an article about Air Canada being held liable for one of their AI chatbots fabricating a refund policy. I do think that the liability piece is being figured out. Also consider that Tesla for example is being held liable in some instances for running into emergency vehicles even though they do try to shift that blame to the driver they can't do that enough so they've kind of invested in Technologies to make sure that the driver is also alert while the vehicle is in motion otherwise they wouldn't bother. In short I think that the liability structure is generally trending towards the company that deploys the AI and not so much the user.
In situations where it makes sense like for example what you would consider an unforced error like a lawyer who uses chat GPT and it generates fake citations. In that case there focusing in on the person who leveraged the application.
Maybe today's liability structure focuses in on the person who apply the AI to a particular area or field not so much the people who created the tooling so in both examples that kind of feels right to me chat GPT being a generic tool the lawyer was held liable for his specific application where autopilot for Tesla the Aisa specific tool designed to this purpose and the person who applied it to that purpose was Tesla therefore they are held liable
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I don't disagree. I think true AI valuation right now is very low (tens of billions, and I think OpenAI especially is overvalued at $50B) and that has nothing to do with the frontier of the tech, and all to do with the speed at which an economy integrates a new set of cowtools.
Court cases take time and judges rule narrowly on novel cases to limit the scope of precedent.
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