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Wrote a minizine about A.I. because people outside of tech often ask me what the deal is and why I’m so anti-passionate about it. Digital version on my blog!

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yes ! I think people fail to recognize that like outside of novelties there's very little tangible (something worth paying for as a business) value in the current AI boom. This was succinct and to the point but if I may make an additional argument for folks visiting here I think to stress how much money is being wrapped up in AI companies right now.

~35% of the US Stock Market is the "Magnificent Seven" tech companies over leveraged on AI right now. NVIDIA, about 20%, makes a lot of their money from sales of AI GPU from those other companies. I've heard folks say the GPUs could be repurposed for research but come on that market share/valuation is inherently wrapped up in the speculation that AI-based tech companies are going to somehow figure out how to turn a profit. If NVIDIA falls the others fall and vice versa. If those others fall you're going to see massive downstream effects on the stock market/economy as a whole.

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Less bleak than. AI wiping us all out, it’ll just take down our pensions and our savings instead!

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Hi, I thought that this was an interesting piece.
So if I understand it, you’re saying that the biggest threat isn’t that AI could go rogue and take us out- it’s that we’re heading for a new iteration of the dot.com bubble crisis, this time with a side order of wider job losses because companies buy into the “false”promises of what AI can deliver. 

Have I got that right?

My thought which doesn’t seem to be a big sticking point for government isn’t the cost to us in cash, it’s the water and power these developments require and the ancillary effects on the environment- apparently AI is going to solve all that for us!

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thank you! :) yes that’s right, and i totally agree haha! that’s why i think the role of power firms cannot be understated, since they went from having to invest in more (economically) expensive green solutions to having all the supply of cheap energy needed to support AI.

of course, it should be mentioned that all these firms generally have the same shareholders (in financial firms), so they are not just operating out of self-interest but also because the economy is more centrally planned than we usually conceive.

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If you’re right, then this will go the same way as the dot.com and banking crises. Some people will make oceans of cash and the rest of us will be left paying the bills.

Cameron’s Terminator franchise wouldn’t have got many sequels if Skynet was really just a hi-tech rerun of the Big Short!