Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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    “This totally amazing new product that everyone will definitely want might turn into a total failure if everyone doesn’t actually want it. Clearly, this is your fault for not wanting it hard enough, and not our fault for shoving a totally unwanted product down everyone’s throats.”

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      39 minutes ago

      I really think they did it so easily with the adoption of the smartphone and the centralized Internet they genuinely are confused why their strategy isn’t working this time around.

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    He means the LLM boom. Their conflating LLMs with all of AI is nonsense.

    There are plenty of other machine learning projects, even ones using Transformer-based neural networks), that are doing just fine because they are not built on top of ridiculous business models like ‘buy every bit of computer hardware and hope someone makes something to run on it’.

    The faster this thing crashes, the faster all consumer electronics becomes cheaper.

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      I think the backlash to LLM is already hurting all AI projects and will be especially bad when that bubble pops.

      Everyone’s going to think all AI, and AGI, projects are LLMs and scoff at them.

      The magic that used to be tied to the term AI is dead by fraud.

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      57 minutes ago

      Just one more GPU rack I swear, were totally right on the cusp of AGI. Just need you to lend me a couple hundred more million.

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    “People don’t want our product and we’re in danger of failure, wahhh” -capitalist oligarch

    Something something free market dynamics something something. Oh wait, they only believe in that when it means deregulating, but if it means letting their company fail then all of a sudden everyone else has a responsibility to carry weight for them?

    Privatized profits and socialized losses. Damn greedy crooks.

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      That’s right. He bought $TRUMP so we get to bail out their shitty company when AI “boom” implodes on itself. Banana republic go brrrr

      Such a waste.

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    4 hours ago

    Translation: “Please help us justify our choices to our board. They want to know why we YOLO’d billions into making our users hate us.”

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    Stop calling LLMs ‘AI’, there’s nothing intelligent about regurgitating statistically luke-warm refried Reddit threads.

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    The customer is always right in matters of taste and style.

    If you can’t get (and keep) customers for your product: that’s your problem.