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Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

donkey_brains wrote: post #154
jaybyrd wrote: post #2

guys were just trying to take jobs away from you.... please stop being mean to us - richest people on earth 2026

Today a manager at my work asked all his teams including mine “please write up a report on how many engineers from your teams we could replace with AI”. Surprisingly, the answer he got was “none, because that’s not how AI works”. Guess we’ll see if that registers…

I would love to have responded something like “only one: yours”

But in all seriousness, ai does a pretty good job at impersonating VPs. It’s confidently wrong and full of hope for the future.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by gruez »

mediaman wrote: post #166
quantum_state wrote: post #88

Viewed from historical perspective, big tech is really reaping the benefits of the intellectual wealth accumulated over many thousands of years by humanity collectively. This should be recognized to find a better path forward.

How? They are all losing tens of billions of dollars on this, so far. Open source models are available at highly competitive prices for anyone to use and are closing the gap to 6-8 months from frontier proprietary models. There doesn't appear to be any moat. This criticism seems very valid against advertising and social media, where strong network effects make dominant players ultra-wealthy and act like a tax, but th…

>Open source models are available at highly competitive prices for anyone to use and are closing the gap to 6-8 months from frontier proprietary models.

What happens when the AI bubble is over and developers of open models doesn't want to incinerate money anymore? Foundation models aren't like curl or openssl. You can't have maintain it with a few engineer's free time.

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Post by wat10000 »

seizethecheese wrote: post #5

> There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society The article is certainly interesting as yet another indicator of the backlash against AI, but I must say, “exists to scam the elderly” is totally absurd. I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in…

They're used for scams. Isn't that the basis in truth you're looking for in satire?

Before this we had "the internet is for porn." Same sort of exaggerated statement.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by gruez »

derektank wrote: post #173
quantum_state wrote: post #88

Viewed from historical perspective, big tech is really reaping the benefits of the intellectual wealth accumulated over many thousands of years by humanity collectively. This should be recognized to find a better path forward.

Isn’t the reason we have a public domain so that people aren’t in a perpetual debt to their intellectual forebears?

Copyrights last a very long time. Moreover nothing says it has to be open. The recipe to coke is still secret.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by ulfw »

mediaman wrote: post #166
quantum_state wrote: post #88

Viewed from historical perspective, big tech is really reaping the benefits of the intellectual wealth accumulated over many thousands of years by humanity collectively. This should be recognized to find a better path forward.

How? They are all losing tens of billions of dollars on this, so far. Open source models are available at highly competitive prices for anyone to use and are closing the gap to 6-8 months from frontier proprietary models. There doesn't appear to be any moat. This criticism seems very valid against advertising and social media, where strong network effects make dominant players ultra-wealthy and act like a tax, but th…

It's turning out to be a commodity product. Commodity products are a race to the bottom on price. That's how this AI bubble will burst. The investments can't possibly show the ROIs envisioned.

As an LLM I use whatever is free/cheapest. Why pay for ChatGPT if Copilot comes with my office subscription? It does the same thing. If not I use Deepseek or Qwen and get very similar results.

Yes if you're a developer on Claude Code et al I get a point. But that's few people. The mass market is just using chat LLMs and those are nothing but a commodity. It's like jumping from Siri to Alexa to whatever the Google thing is called. There are differences but they're too small to be meaningful for the average user

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by mackeye »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #113
quantum_state wrote: post #88

Viewed from historical perspective, big tech is really reaping the benefits of the intellectual wealth accumulated over many thousands of years by humanity collectively. This should be recognized to find a better path forward.

Sounds like you just want some of their money.

some would say their money is our money via the ltv :-)

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by echelon »

jacquesm wrote: post #108
echelon wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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As a rule real creativity blossoms under constraints, not under abundance.

Trying to make a dent in the universe while we metabolize and oxidize our telomeres away is a constraint.

But to be more in the spirit of your comment, if you've used these systems at all, you know how many constraints you bump into on an almost minute to minute basis. These are not magical systems and they have plenty of flaws.

Real creativity is connecting these weird, novel things together into something nobody's ever seen before. Working in new ways that are unproven and completely novel.

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