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"Hi, Ryan here, I’m back from vacation and very sunburned. Still catching up on
all the posts I missed while I was away, but it seems like using AI is
officially a sin for Catholics. So I think it’s worth taking a closer look at
the AI bubble. If you haven’t been following it closely, it’s looking a lot
more bubbly these days.
The big headline scaring AI guys this week is from
Business Insider, which
reported out some comments made by Uber COO Andrew Macdonald on the
Rapid
Response podcast. To paraphrase Macdonald (he’s not a super concise speaker
lol), he said replacing human workers with AI is still too expensive. And he’s
not the first Uber executive this year to make the same claim. Uber CTO Praveen
Neppalli Naga told
The Information something similar back in April. Earlier
this month, noted AI critic Ed Zitron wrote a piece putting a lot of this
together, titled, “AI Is Too Expensive,” if you’d like to go deeper there.
But the simple fact is that, aside from all the problems AI models still have
producing work that is error-free or even useful, it’s also just expensive as
hell. And it continues to get more expensive all the time. I’ve seen folks like
X super-user Aakash Gupta, who definitely writes almost all of his posts with
AI, claim that the recent comments from Uber executives is “the strongest AI
bull signal anyone has published this year,” but I don’t think people who use
terms like “bull signal” are actually ensouled individuals."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
