Sam Altman and others have publicly stated (something to the effect that) the end goal is for AI to replace workers. There is no amount of money too big for a capitalist to bet on that outcome, especially if they deem it plausible.
And then who buys the products 🫠
They buy products from each other, and shut out more and more people if society.
You see the homeless drug addict on the street? They want more of that.
They buy products from each other and shut themselves from society.
Which is not a bad outcome.
Except they take all of the land and resources with them. You posit the billionaires have a fully automated robotic industry at their whim and they will leave any scraps for the rest of us? It would be judgment day from the Terminator series, except instead of a super intelligent Skynet AGI mowing down humanity it would be psychopathic pedophiles.
When we only have white cishet billionaires, we can abolish money.
Don’t forget about the other big players! Jensen Hwang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, Satya Nadella, plus the memory cartel (Samsung, SK Hynix, etc.)
This particular war is a class war.
Ah, so, about them…
Sorry, forgot about a few. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai… Honestly, it’d probably be easier to list the white cishet billionaires in tech than it would be to list the exceptions. There’s tons of them outside of tech, probably the majority tbh, but within tech it’s far too diverse.
Without the carrot there’s only the stick…
Exchange still occurs globally and amongst the upper class.
The upper class doesn’t buy anything but stocks.
That’s an excellent way to think about it. I mean, horrifying, but incisive.
Wait till they ruin the internet, make users unable of any meaningful general purpose computation on their own hardware, then everybody has to beg them for computing and knowledge.
this is bigger than a few AI companies. This is the scheme of global governments moving towards full totalitarianism and control.
Call me paranoid but I highly believe this is the route we’re at.
Wait till they ruin the internet
I think we are long past that by now. “Enshitification” and “Capitalist Slop”, was already a huge thing before these ‘new’ ***holes came about. Capitalist slop is the pre-cursor for “AI-slop”, and is basically to throw literal shit on the market(wall) and see if it sticks. My personal view is that 99.99% of all internet content is Cap-Slop that shouldn’t/wouldn’t be there in a natural society.
full totalitarianism and control.
That was always the end-state of Capitalism, “Fascism” is basically when govs are taken over by private Capitalist sh*tters. US have been an Oligarchy for longer than anyone alive today, and ‘Democracy’ were never there.
Everything is going as the anti-capitalists predicted and expected…
Some other news in the past week was about scrappers making like 90% of internet traffic.
I feel like an idiot not catching it the first time I heard about the GPU crunch, but yes.
Every gold rush only makes the people rich who are selling the shovels, never the investors, never the workers.
Maybe shares should be ‘sold’ on subscription, like so many other things these days. You ‘buy’ them but you don’t ‘own’ them - you just get the benefits of having them temporarily. That should reduce the incentive to ‘own’ shares in companies that are not profitable.
Quick! Get this person a series A, B and C funding!
It took them this long to figure that out?
Yeah, we’re all about to be fucked because so many major players are tied up in this scheme. The bottom is going to fall out and the entire world economy might be affected (USA for sure, cause WE’RE NUMBER ONE).
Set aside additional savings (if you can) to be prepared for a bad time ahead.
Isn’t that true of all tech companies nowadays?
The underlying technology isn’t unprofitable, inference alone isn’t unprofitable. It’s the research and development of better models that’s unprofitable and unsustainable.
Investment IS gambling, some people will win, some will lose.
That’s pretty much how almost every new development happens. EVs were the same, primarily funded by subsidies and now they’re cost competitive or better in many situations even without them. Cellphone networks… also heavily funded by investors and some took hits from how it all played out. The dotcom bubble. Even as far back as the Railroad boom in the UK. This is a tale as old as time.
isn’t unprofitable
Yes it is. The only things its useful and efficient for are all laid out in either ‘1984’ or the Geneva conventions.
Your emotions don’t override reality.
LLMs are excellent at translation as one significant beneficial use case.
I wish I could believe you, sloppy, but you’re all lying sacks of shit so I can’t trust anything you say.
That makes sense, you’re clearly not smart enough to know a second language so you can test it out.
Is that what your cat farts said would own me?
I wouldn’t put a fancy and stupidly resource-intensive word guessing game on the same level as those other things.
Maybe you wouldn’t, but I would. You clearly don’t remember how bad the internet was when it first became available to the public.
Do tell, how has it improved since the times that I clearly don’t remember?
Other than not blocking your entire phone line while you were on it, paying for hours per month of connectivity, having content take minutes to load, lacking in useful content, a thousand and one different logins with no safety systems attached, constant viruses, and no safe way to pay for things?
Nah, it was great.
Oh! Welcome to the 1980s
Of course it is not sustainable. The level of data centers they build tells the story.
