AI is a lot more like the Internet than it is like Facebook. It's a set of techniques you can use to create tools. These are incredibly useful tools, but you're not going to make Facebook money off of them because the techniques are pretty easy to replicate and the genie is out of the bottle.
What the tech bros are looking for is a way to control access to AI so they can be a chokepoint. Like if Craftsman could charge for every single time you used their tool to make something. For one very recent example, see what happened to Unity. Creating chokepoints and then collecting rent is the modern corporate feudal strategy, but that won't work if everybody with an AWS account and enough money can spin up an LLM and start training it.
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 1 year ago
I wonder if “AI not paying off” in the context of this article actually means “Companies haven’t been able to lay off a bunch of their staff yet, like they’re hoping to do”
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
If anyone read the article you'd know what they meant, and it wasn't either of the things you two mentioned.
alienanimals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know exactly what the journalist meant. They meant to get more clicks with some dumb shit headline and a bad article that will make them look extremely stupid in the future.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s about MASSIVE CARBON FOOTPRINT and a waning userbase
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yea I didn’t read it. But isn’t it safe to assume that this is a major goal for many companies?
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
Read the article