Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 days agoI think there was an inherent demand behind those examples though. Just the number of lives lost looking for the northwest passage showed how useful the Panama canal would be.
You’re also comparing government spending in a lot of those cases Vs private capital. That fact shows how much power has shifted in the world already.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, in the Soviet example everything was government.
And governments seem to be so excited by the prospects of this “AI” so it’s pretty clear that it’s still their desire most of all.