The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.

The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.

  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    i’ve been saying for months that every billion we spend on LLMs etc. is moving us further away from AGI, not closer, and that retreat is accelerating.

    it feels so wildly irresponsible for evangelists like ellison to continue to hype this dumpster fire up. but then he doesn’t stand to lose his mansions, his islands, his jets.