Die KI-Wirtschaft wird „durch ein Schneeballsystem gestützt“, sagt der Direktor von „The AI Doc“.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/ai-documentary-apocaloptimist-interview
Die KI-Wirtschaft wird „durch ein Schneeballsystem gestützt“, sagt der Direktor von „The AI Doc“.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/ai-documentary-apocaloptimist-interview
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>The directors tried multiple avenues to get to Zuckerberg, but it was always a no. “He’s like an alien in a human being suit,” Roher says. “So of course they don’t want him to talk.”
That’s hilariously on point.
Trailers for this movie look interesting but I’m skeptical of how much time they seem to give Altman considering the man is completely full of shit and I’m not sure I want to spend much of my limited time on earth listening to him try and gaslight LLMs as a path to AGI
remember when crypto was the future of everything and then it just wasnt. getting real deja vu with this whole ai spending spree
Like pensions.
Well yeah.
But good luck convincing people who’ve already been awed by its parlor tricks.
I mean yeah, it’s been obvious all along
Well most of the markets and valuations of corps are also.
Of course it is. Brought to you by the same dipshits who insisted that the Metaverse was the future.
Truth is most people have pretty mediocre jobs that AI could do. Other than construction and food industry jobs at some point AI can do most.
That being said companies are run by idiots and too many jumping the gun. The problem is no one knows how well AI will do this year versus next year. But if you have AI infrastructure ready, you won’t fall behind. So it’s practically a must have for most large companies.
I don’t think the bubble will pop like the internet bubble of the 90s. The bubble was because the internet ecosystem wasn’t there. AI is being bought and sold by mostly companies with a history of things other than AI.
Adoption of AI is everywhere and widespread but at the same time, there are a significant number of CEOs and executives reporting that AI has not yet delivered expected, measurable gains in efficiency and productivity.
i can’t get the damned thing to do basic math across a couple excel sheets. it has a very narrow helpful lane in my life anyway.
The technology is real – the economics are not. Pretty much nailed it
I predict it’ll be similar to the dot-com bubble, things like ChatGPT or Claude will stick around like Google and Amazon, and all the hyper specific “AI enhanced workstation buzzword etc,” will go the way of Pets.com.
AI development is a literal arms race, and not just to aid the economy. This explains why so much has been, and will continue to be invested into it.
They just realizing that now?
The ratio of spending to output tailed off hard after a great launch. And now they’re hoping to become too big to fail.
And if we DO succeed, our reward will likely be a super intelligence that by most models would destroy humanity. So it’s a win-win!
Not a good start when the title is already obviously wrong. It’s not a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme pays out earlier investments using money from new investors. AI *isn’t paying out.* Investors are simply funneling money in, with full knowledge that returns are highly speculative. So how can it be a ponzi scheme?
Will not be watching this documentary if the guy is making basic errors like this. If you’re going to claim that there’s a financial scam going on, you’d damn well better know the first thing about finance and be able to actually explain it. If you’re just throwing out „ponzi scheme“ because you think it means „generic bad financial stuff“, then you have a long way to go.
In what way? I shouldn’t have to see your documentary in order for you to finish your thought.
If anyone wants more detail about how fucked this ponzi scheme is – I refer you to this
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/
A highlight:
„Even if you are impressed by what LLMs can do, remember that what you’re impressed by is the result of burning more money than anybody has ever burned on anything, including the Great Financial Crisis’ Troubled Asset Relief Plan (a little over $400 billion) and the COVID Paycheck Protection Program (somewhere between $800 billion and $900 billion). Anthropic and OpenAI have raised (assuming OpenAI gets all the money) over $200 billion in funding, on top nearly $700 billion in capex in 2026 alone across Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, on top of the $800 billion or so they’ve already spent. I haven’t even included the tens of billions spent by CoreWeave, or the $178.5 billion in US-based data center debt deals from 2025, or the hundreds of billions of venture dollars that went to AI companies worldwide. „
Yes, and the number of executives who amass incredibly economically harmful decisions as a result has set the economy in a nose dive.
I’m just waiting for this to wash out.
AI is the future. It’s just no one has any idea what that future looks like or how it will be implemented in day-to-day life.
What we have right now is a lot of grifters trying to make money of the AI bubble like people made money off of the Internet bubble in the early 2000s.