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So what's your solution? Sit on your hands and build nothing, leaving potentially millions or billions of dollars on the table? Whine about things that haven't
by wakawaka28 3y ago
So what's your solution? Sit on your hands and build nothing, leaving potentially millions or billions of dollars on the table? Whine about things that haven't happened, may never happen, and could be worked around if they did happen? Google is successful and it charges most people nothing. So it is possible to make a successful business out of providing a service at low(ish) cost.
Of course you wouldn't build a multi-billion dollar data center for a single application bringing in a pittance. But that's not what anyone is doing. Demand is high and data centers can be shared between many different companies.
- peteradio 3y agoOr it could wind up being a pretty big waste of resources. On the one hand you have the ability to extract "apparent knowledge" in a conversational form. On the other hand you are killing the ability to create new knowledge and as an added bonus consolidate power into service providers that work worse than ever.
- chii 3y ago> a pretty big waste of resources. as long as that resource is privately funded paid for, i don't care. It's only a problem if this resource is taxpayer subsidized.
- wakawaka28 3y agoThis "conversational knowledge" stuff is probably just a primitive and inefficient form of AI that may be superceded by other innovations. It need not have any real impact on new knowledge, any more than billions of ordinary people babbeling for hundreds of years. The service provider concern is understandable, but I think competition may keep this tech available to everyone who can reasonably afford it. We still have private computers and software despite the possibility for everything to be run from data centers and using proprietary subscription-based software.