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zeke said:

View: https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1970363947003060444
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He hates Elon, but he's learned so much from Elon.

Superbrain, agents working for you while you sleep, etc. At least he's not promising it all "by the middle of next year" or some such bullshit pulled straight out of his ass.

Oh....and we need orders of magnitude more compute (and investor money) to make it happen.

This is the most epic financial bubble in human history but it's all the ownership classes money, so when it goes pop, the government is going to step in to "save the economy" again, with the taxpayer giving money to ultra billionaires who took a bloody nose on their AI investment.
 
The building with the largest footprint (ground-area covered by structure) is the AvtoVAZ main assembly building in Tolyatti, Russia. Roughly 219.7 acres

Manhattan is about 22.7 square miles, which equals roughly 14,565 acres.
 
zeke said:

View: https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1970860020297281830
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cherry pick here by the twatter - they’re talking about investment In internally developed gen ai, not use of ai generally.

I think businesses see clear value in tools like copilot but 1) big money in ai was expected in licensing the models to developers, so this does call into question the value prop of the overall investment/bubble and 2) the net benefits might be marginal (it’s like an assistant or junior) and not outweigh the costs or net detriments (basic work provides a good training ground for developing talent).
 
mbow30 said:
cherry pick here by the twatter - they’re talking about investment In internally developed gen ai, not use of ai generally.

I think businesses see clear value in tools like copilot but 1) big money in ai was expected in licensing the models to developers, so this does call into question the value prop of the overall investment/bubble and 2) the net benefits might be marginal (it’s like an assistant or junior) and not outweigh the costs or net detriments (basic work provides a good training ground for developing talent).
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Yeah, the value prop that was pitched 5 years ago is "this will replace everyone, everywhere and you're fucked if you don't have it" and now the value prop is "you'll need to hire fewer entry level skilled workers if you spend a bundle on our tools to overwork your mid and high level skill workers even more by making them double check the shitty output from the LLM we're licensing".

Nvidia is stuck betting on this though, and for OpenAI, especially at this loony valuations, this is existential. So here we are with two of the biggest companies in the world stuck in a co dependent doom loop and a handful of the other biggest wanting a return on the 10's-100's of billion they've already invested in the whole thing.
 
I see a lot of utility for AI going forward, and am not as down on it as some folks around here, though I agree it's been wildly overpromised and overvaluated. But that clip is a pretty good microcosm of where we're currently at, some clips that look really cool and a whole lot of pointless garbage.
 
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