3 pointsby jqpabc1233 hours ago2 comments

mirmor23an hour ago
AI hype is real, and there is a lot of perverse incentive to keep the hype cycle going. You are right about that.
Rest of your analogy/arguments are just a lot of nonsense too.
Electricity is valuable, and by that logic Siemens Energy should build and own all factories under the sun. TI should stop selling their calculators and compete in Math Olympiad instead!
davydm2 hours ago
the ai companies have a problem at the moment: the compute required for inference (especially) costs a metric shit-ton of money - so they're crowd-sourcing the funds (unsuccessfully so far, tbh - for example, a $20/m claude sub that i'm on for work, and I regularly see individual conversations where the tokens cost more than that - even up to $350.
It's a tool tho, not a panacea. With the right guidance, for example, you can get some good code results.
- jqpabc123an hour ago
  With the right guidance
  Catch 22 --- In order to pay for itself, AI needs to eliminate the very jobs that build the experience and expertise necessary to provide the "right guidance".
  At the same time, this will restrict production of quality content that is needed for model training.
  In other words, AI creates a self degrading/defeating feed back loop.