How much (little) are the AI companies making?
How much (little) are the AI companies making?
That's why AI is being crammed into absofuckinglutely everything. It's why the button you used to tap to start a new chat summons up an AI that takes seven taps to banish again – it's so tech companies can tell Wall Street that people are "using AI" which means that their companies are still part of a growth industry and thus entitled to gigantic price-to-earnings ratios:
Oh boy. I have a Schrodinger Cory Doctorow dilemma. I would like to read Cory Doctorow book about tech companies and military contracts. At the same time I am thinking that this might be his last and unfinished book. Because I really like Cory Doctorow books I don't want him to write this book but I want to read it at the same time.
I'm not sure how new or innovative all these tricks are, I heard something equivalent to that 'unicorn' thing about Victorian era railway companies in London. But those spending numbers in 1 year are horrific, they could each build like hundreds of km of high speed rail and probably a handful of schools and hospitals (not that i'd want that lot involved in any of those things).
". . .the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation."