Chuck Darwin @cdarwin@c.im
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The assumption is that one day large language models and other related AI technologies fostered by Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT actually will be a great and infallible productivity tool for genuine work.

It already is decent for providing basic overviews of highly-covered, well-sourced topics, even as hallucinations and sycophancy continue to dog the tech, particularly in situations where accountability is more critical.

Despite today's downsides,
many companies are salivating at the idea of cheap virtual humans replacing real humans who need money to eat and time to sleep.

Big Tech is racing to meet this possibility with panicked fervour, and recent analyses from FT and HSBC (via Fortune) suggest that things are potentially getting a bit ... irrational

Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion
(with a T)
in compute commitments,
as companies start turning to debt to fund the AI craze.
windowscentral.com/artificial-

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

www.windowscentral.com · Windows Central

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