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It was ads that made the money to develop the artificial minds in the first place.
by philjohn 3y ago
It was ads that made the money to develop the artificial minds in the first place.
- lubesGordi 3y agoYeah, and look at how some very simple clustering ML/recommender systems impact social/political dynamics all to keep people engaged on the site and maximize chances to click ads ( see youtube/facebook, etc. ).
- temp0826 3y agoEx Machina vibes
- exikyut 3y agoThis is technically correct to the extent of paperclip maximization and I don't like it.
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- papruapap 3y agoThat is only true for Google. If anything bootstrapped AI, it was gaming.
- replygirl 3y agowhat's the gaming story? most of the ai we know today builds on academic work going back to the 90s
- donkeybeer 3y agoProbably refers to the development of and increase in computing power of gpus, I guess.
- selectodude 3y agoIt’s matrix multiplication all the way down.
- laserlight 3y agoLast time I checked, OpenAI wasn't earning money from ads.
- lordswork 3y agoLast time I checked, OpenAI didn't develop transformers.
- brookst 3y agoThis is starting to sound very paperclippy. Ads fund the AIs to make us click on ads to fund AIs that are even better at getting us to click on even more ads.
- flir 3y agoIt's ok, as soon as the AI figures out a better way to gather resources, it'll pivot. (this is not meant to be reassuring).