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The promise and the reality:
The story of the Loughton supercomputer is an insight into the dizzying ambitions for artificial intelligence as an economic powerhouse, in the UK and beyond – but also how those hopes can dissolve into a less exciting reality.
The $17.5bn investment represents a plan, by a UK company, to buy chips made in Taiwan by a US company, put them in a building in Loughton, and rent them to another US tech company.
Asked about how the site would create 750 jobs, Nscale could not say how this figure had been calculated.
Again and again, @davidgerard, Ed Zitron and others have highlighted that many of these loudly trumpeted "commitments" and "contracts" to invest billions are nothing more than hype to inflate the AI balloon. Here's another shabby example. Who's behind it? Former crypto bros, of course.
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Commie crap, suicidal peacenikdom, and antijewism — all in one episode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lLpB-VaN_U
#aibubble
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#davidgerard
#israel
#llm
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«I think it will be good, most likely it will be good, ehm, yeah, …., yeah, but if someone reconciled myself to the fact that even if it wasn’t gonna be good, I’d at least like to be alive to see it happen»
- CEO for one of the worlds leading AI companies
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@davidgerard I've got to take exception to one statement you make:
AI is the last game in the casino.
It may be the last game of which we're presently aware. But I'm reasonably certain another grift will come along.
That's a minor nit, and this is good analysis.
NB: WNYC's On the Media interviewed Ed Zitron this past January. He makes a similar case to yours:
Silicon Valley over the years has leaned towards just growth ideas. What will grow, what can we sell more of? Except, they've chased out all the real innovators. To your original question, they didn't know what they were going to do. They thought that ChatGPT would magically become profitable. When that didn't work, they went, "Well, what if we made it more powerful and bigger? We can get more funding that way," so they did that.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brooke-talks-ai-with-ed-zitron (transcript available).
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«Tesla is a meme stock with a troubled car company attached. Elon Musk’s job is to be the meme.
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The car promises weren’t much better. The Cybercab is a two-seater car with gull-wing doors and Cybertruck styling. The Robovan is an unsteerable windowless box.
This stuff sounds cool as hell. It’s a pity that Musk will never, ever deliver.»
Spot-on comment by @davidgerard and #AmyCastor.
BTW: Their next #PivotToAI post will be #100! Time to celebrate!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/11/elons-double-nothingburger-robotaxis-any-year-now-bro-and-robots-bro-trust-us-bro/