The Ai boom has not only killed the creative industry but also made treats more expensive for the treatlerite, the whole reason they support the country in the first place, so whats the goal here why further alienate the labor aristocracy that supported you in favour of Ai (a technology I will always hold to be a scam) all for reaching AGI and even if it does reach AGI whats the goal then? No one would be able to afford it unless your rich and your economy can’t rely in them forever the end of the road here is societal collapse nothing more

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 days ago

    It’s full-scale quarterbrain. It all makes sense when you remember that every compsny’s main product is its stock now. The fact that nVidia makes chips, or Palantir makes dystopia, is largely incidental.

    Bubble economics means they have to be 1000% into tulips because that’s the only thing Wall Street is talking about now. The last capitalist who actually said “where do we get a consumer class to buy our products tomorrow” was shouted down as a blasphemer.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    The AGI stuff is complete hot air. Even OpenAI doesn’t believe in it. They haven’t specifically admitted but they have heavily toned down hyping it up.

    AI affinity is driven by the tendency of capitalism to cannibalise itself. In the short term I think their hope is that it will decrease the quality of creative output but not unacceptably so but the increase in the volume of output will counteract it.

    As for the labour aristocracy part I’m not sure. The capitalists have always hated them. Seeing how the Trump administration has put zero attempt in manufacturing consent for war against Venezuela I guess they gave concluded they don’t need to coddle the labour aristocracy anymore and don’t seek their welfare or approval.

    • Darkcommie@lemmygrad.mlBannedOP
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      12 days ago

      I didn’t know that they toned it down huh so they can’t actually expect to achieve AGI within this decade?

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Internally I don’t they ever had any timeline for AGI. Stuff like “we will have AGI by 20xx” was said by hucksters like Altman informally during interviews which then the media just repeated verbatim.

        The jump in model quality has noticeably slowed down since 4o. So they can’t even pretend to be on the trajectory for AGI. So they have kinda just stopped talking about it. Now the only place where I see AGI being mentioned unironically is the comment section of hacker news.