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People only mean that AI companies themselves (which are huge by necessity because of immense scale of compute required, and limited hyper-expensive, unique tal
by anovikov 1y ago
People only mean that AI companies themselves (which are huge by necessity because of immense scale of compute required, and limited hyper-expensive, unique talent they use, although that is secondary). They are supposed to grab all the value from all the industries much like say, Google took out all profits and value from all traditional media, advertisers, retailers, virtually everything. So it will be like, 2-5 hyper large companies controlling majority of GDP. Which may be actually not that bad. Being in the driver seat, they may provide an alternative to 2 political parties - certainly a much saner alternative. Because they will be able to decide just about everything - and government won't be able to stop them because of their transnational nature, and very soon, will be unable to stop them by force as well - they may create a more sensible government by sidelining and/or co-opting traditional political system and make everyone happier. It might look a bit like Lebanon at times, though.
When people say that we are entering new Middle Ages, they might actually be cool.
- jppope 1y agoMaybe but at this time it doesn't appear to be a "winner take all" market, its actually looking more and more like a commodity or utility market... There doesn't appear to be a moat or proprietary advantage to any providers (except at the hardware level) or anyone at the application layer. I've never once heard that someone would only use ChatGpt and could never use Claude. The improvements between model versions are minor at this point. How would someone win this market? I think its also a foregone conclusion that the only way to profitably monetize this market will be ads or to raise the price for inference in the future.
- anovikov 1y agoIt's not like they will make money by selling their services. They will make money by being everything else. Like, "replace newspapers and news sites by AI content they generate, putting everyone in the news and media out of jobs". It sounds scary as fuck, but let's see how it plays out.