I'm finding the whole AI thing discouraging. Nothing like earlier tech gold-rushes. Every single idea I have starts with "have, or acquire, an absolute shitload

I'm finding the whole AI thing discouraging. Nothing like earlier tech gold-rushes. Every single idea I have starts with "have, or acquire, an absolute shitload of capital"—because you need huge, tagged datasets to move forward with any of them. That means capital, and lots of it. And if you find a way around that you're still burning non-trivial amounts of money on every little experiment (for compute time) all in search of an outcome that may not materialize, i.e. you may never even have anything that you could attempt to sell or raise money with. Seems impossibly expensive to engage in just to fail several times, unless you've got a large pile of capital.