Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …
The bubble popping will be a good thing. Henry Ford didn’t come around until after the electrification bubble popped, after all. Bezos didn’t come around until the dotcom bubble burst.
It’s after all bubbles burst - when the genuinely useful things are most salient and apparent, that the true innovations happen.
The bubble continuing ensures the current paradigm soldiers on, meaning hideously expensive projects shove local models into people’s hands for free, because everyone else is doing that.
And once it bursts, there’s gonna be an insulating layer of dipshits repeating “guess it was nothing!” over the next decade of incremental wizardry. For now, tolerating the techbro cult’s grand promises of obvious bullshit means the unwashed masses are interpersonally receptive to cool things happening.
Already the big boys are pivoted toward efficiency instead of raw speed at all costs. The closer they get toward a toaster matching current tech with a model trained for five bucks, the better. I’d love for VCs to burn money on experimentation instead of scale.
The bubble popping will be a good thing. Henry Ford didn’t come around until after the electrification bubble popped, after all. Bezos didn’t come around until the dotcom bubble burst.
It’s after all bubbles burst - when the genuinely useful things are most salient and apparent, that the true innovations happen.
The bubble continuing ensures the current paradigm soldiers on, meaning hideously expensive projects shove local models into people’s hands for free, because everyone else is doing that.
And once it bursts, there’s gonna be an insulating layer of dipshits repeating “guess it was nothing!” over the next decade of incremental wizardry. For now, tolerating the techbro cult’s grand promises of obvious bullshit means the unwashed masses are interpersonally receptive to cool things happening.
Already the big boys are pivoted toward efficiency instead of raw speed at all costs. The closer they get toward a toaster matching current tech with a model trained for five bucks, the better. I’d love for VCs to burn money on experimentation instead of scale.