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The AI grift is so obvious now. The smart are abusing the dumb.
by OhioMan2943 1y ago
The AI grift is so obvious now. The smart are abusing the dumb.
- ares623 1y agoYeah I’ve definitely started to see the winds change. It’s gonna hurt everything.
- OhioMan2943 1y agoEspecially when you see that the entire economy is leveraged on AI- and will likely cause another gfc (within the silent depression we're already in) “We’re now locked into a particular version of the market and the future where all roads lead to big tech,” says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI development and policy. Indeed, the success of major stock indexes—and perhaps your 401(k)—is resting on the continued growth of AI: Meta, Amazon, and the chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom have accounted for 60 percent of the S&P 500’s returns this year. " People wont be able to handle this. Small scale community is the only way to get through what is coming.
- simianwords 1y agoCan you explain how this is a grift?
- ares623 1y ago- using the “stargate” name to make it sound related to the Stargate Project (which itself is vaporware) - very non committal verbiage - very light on details, but enough to entice new -marks- investors (“please bro we’re so close to AGI just $20B more”)
- OhioMan2943 1y agoBecause none of our most advanced llm models need more than a few h100s or whatever. They would be better building exascale computing not centred on llms. It's blatantly promising undeliverable results.