I don’t understand why tech companies are investing so much in AI. Are there any industries that show real promise in terms of revenue or power?
From my perspective it all just seems a bit “kind of useful”, not justifying the expense.
I don’t understand why tech companies are investing so much in AI. Are there any industries that show real promise in terms of revenue or power?
From my perspective it all just seems a bit “kind of useful”, not justifying the expense.
“You can fire like most of your expensive staff who have real leverage and only be noticably worse”
LLMs are another (large) step in the broad trend of concentrating more power in fewer hands that has been going on since late mesolithic food storage tech.
Most things that we’ve lionized as technological breakthroughs since the end of the ice age ~20kya have been power-concentration tools.