Marshall Brain explores this idea in a short story, Manna. It is scary, and prescient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
available free online from the author: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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#32No. We are in an hype fase. VC's pump money into it because it is the current hype, before this it was NFT's and crypto. The fase "AI" or a better name for it is LLM or GenAI will also pass. VC money will run out. There is no real business model yet that can support the enormous amounts of resources needed to train it and to run them. Hardware is not fast enough yet.. it could be sustainable when it runs locally on m…
Speaking of ‘yet’ - how does the rapid trajectory of increasingly efficient models like 4o mini fit with this take?
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