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The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
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When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (15 children)

They'll move on to the next big thing, just like they did after bitcoin.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    And after NFTs, blockchain, the metaverse and so on

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'd love a gang of nerds doing the real metaverse, like Gibson showed us.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yea but it comes with all the other stuff in Gibsons books

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    All that other stuff comes already, but I do not see it create the metaverse.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let's stop giving meta credit. Metaverse is a shit name anyway. Cyberspace is cooler and it's still not that cool.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The metaverse is awesome, invented in the book Snowcrash from 1992. Its by Neal Stephenson, not Gibson, my mistake.

    Facebook just stole the name and are making some crap.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    What if we were pro-active, and trapped them by creating some bullshit "next big thing" and then just pocket all of their cash when they invest.

    "You thought your money was going towards a space elevator, but little did you know, you've been single-handedly housing and feeding the population of six US cities!! Muahahahahahah!"

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How dare those awful people keep trying new things. The Internet was perfect in the 1950s and we should stick with it being exactly the same way forever.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Their "new things" have created a bubble that will chop the head off the US economy, and at the same time is directly propping up a fascist in the White House. Fuck them. I'd rather the Internet be frozen the way it was in 2006 than deal with this shit.

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