The incompetent have always pantomimed the competent. It never works. Although the incompetent will always pay a huge amount to try to achieve this fantasy.
replyThis is what always confused me about VC AI enthusiasm. Their moat is the capital. As AI improves, it destroys their moat. And yet, they are stoked to invest in it, the architects of their own demise.
replyDon't you have that backwards? If AI gets so good that it can replace all human labor, will capital like money and data centers be the only moat left?
reply> If AI gets so good that it can replace all human labor, will capital like money and data centers be the only moat left?
replyIf AI gets good enough to replace all human labor then actual physical moats to keep the hungry, rioting replaced humans away will be the most important moats.
Which is bought by money in the first place, see billionaire doomsday bunkers. The poor will not have such a bunker.
replyHow powerful is the device you wrote this comment from? On prem or self hosted affordable inference is inevitable.
replyThere’s no alternative, they can’t collectively freeze out all AI investment and force it to die.
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