Tech bros just wantt AI so the rich don't have to rely on actual humans.

People are great at coming up ways to make money by exploitation.

If AI were used to match people, OK,maybe guzzling all that data could be put to good use. But dating your AI companion? On a phone? That's bonkers.

There can still be a huge bubble to pop and still have it be just as transformative as the author thinks it will be

The Internet itself is a prime example, it similarly was massively over-hyped for the time. The bubble grew and popped and while billions of monies were lost and a lot of companies went under, ultimately it did little to stop or even slow the transformative-ness of it (for better or for worse). In the end, it didn't even slowdown online shopping.

But I think he was also exaggerating to a point, because like you said he's personally invested even if he's not "laying the foundation". But, how much is he off? A couple years? 5 or 10? That's still not a lot of time to lay preparations with properly functioning governments and considering the current state of affairs as it is.....

I try to stay well read on AI, and I regularly use Claude, but I'm not so convinced by this article. It makes no mention of the bubble that could burst. As for the models improving aren't the improvements slowing down?

More importantly, the long term effects of using AI are still unknown, so that for reason the adoption trajectory could be subject to change.

The other factor to consider is that the author of this article is a big investor in AI. It's in his interest to generate more hyperbole around it. I have no doubt that generative AI will forever change coding, but but I have my skepticism about other areas, especially considering the expensive controversy of Deloitte using AI to write reports for the Australian government.

It is deeply silly that the input and the output go in the same bucket. These things have how many context heads, in how many layers, and you can't count to two? It's not like it's novel - diffusion's had separate positive / negative prompts the whole time.

This guy is so insufferable. I stopped listening to MacPowerUsers years ago when Katie Floyd left. David would hardly let her talk, and she was the more interesting host by a long shot.

All I got from this article is that he's still as useless as he's always been.

Imagine buying a car

And then an update to your car cuts the horse power from 140 to 120

Id feel scammed

Is this even legal?

Gawd, union leadership in this country is almost as weak as Democratic leadership. If Newsom wants to be President, then the only answer is "Fuck No".

So are phony lawsuits the new bribe-out-in-the-open technique?

All companies that are making AI need to donate to whoever is currently president, because their entire business is fundamentally based on illegal actions. By buying off the president, they can continue to steer legislation towards legalizing their theft of content.

If the goal is specifically to hurt the company, then an alternative is to use the free tier as much as possible in order to increase their costs.

not really

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-dario-amodei-american-ai-leadership

They seem quite psyched to have Trump as the president. A whole page about what a good puppy they have been:

Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan. We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race, and I personally attended an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania with President Trump, where he and I had a good conversation about US leadership in AI. Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer attended a White House event where we joined a pledge to accelerate healthcare applications of AI, and our Head of External Affairs attended the White House’s AI Education Taskforce event to support their efforts to advance AI fluency for teachers.

How's the company that's not profitable donating money!? Aren't they just severely in the red?

At this rate atleast one thing that is a critical part of your life is produced by someone who sponsors Trump with large sums of money. That is what a tech oligarchies tend to do when fascists run a country, pay the tribute to stay alive.

Ridiculously enough this page asks you to share it using Twitter and TikTik of all things. Gets better and better, they also suggest you can use Claude or Gemini as if Anthropic or Google is not licking Trump's ass. Not an OpenAI fan but I am highly suspicious this page is the grass roots organization it claims to be (not very much info about that either).

I’m still one off luddites who has never installed opened ChatGPT. My only experience has been the search results bots, and unless it is a link to Wikipedia, it’s been ignored or blatantly wrong in my searches.

Enterprise grade? So it's over sold, over priced, and under performs?

and many don't know there are alternative chatbots like Gemini and Claude that many people think are even better.

Alphabet (Google) paid Trump also though:

YouTube Capitulates to Trump - YouTube

Twitter (X) paid him $10 million to settle a case they’d already won. Facebook (Meta) followed with $25 million. And now Google (Alphabet) has paid $24 million - not to Trump personally, but funneled through tax-exempt trusts supposedly for the National Mall, but really to fund construction of a massive 90,000-square-foot Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom on the White House.

Seems like more of the same ass kissing for most of these big tech companies. Is Anthropic any better?

Tax payers are his biggest donors. It's time somebody worth the money was put in his place. He is milking the country until someone stops him

Do not forget, while this claims OpenAI is Trump's biggest donos, it's not just AI but tech in general that paid Donald Trump to do this to us.

Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Audible, Spotify, X.... These are also among Trump's biggest donors on inauguration day.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/trump-inauguration-donors-include-meta-amazon-target-delta-ford.html

Kind of demonstrates the sad state of affairs in the gaming world, it is infested with investors only interested in money milking.

It was also hacked almost immediately, having apparently been vibe-coded into existence.

I looked at some examples of what it generates, and it has some of the same problems of AI video: disfigured human crowds and it "forgets" the environment you are in, which sometimes results in the room around you changing from when you looked last time (in addition to these "games" being basically walking simulators without any interactivity or animations). This for now makes very boring "games" where nothing really matters because there's no object persistency, and I don't see how they are going to solve this issue because it looks like an inherent flaw of current AI technology (managing context windows is challanging also for LLMs).

IMHO this can be used at best a rendering technology, or to make a photo become explorable in 3d (with some made-up parts), but not games.

In case you want to also have a look at more than the cherry-picked examples posted by google, i found this video that has no commentary (not made by me - I hope it's ok by the rules to post youtube links?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTWCx8UPlI

google has figured out how to trigger a steam sale on gaming stock