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Ex-Google CEO: What Artificial Superintelligence Will Actually Look Like w/ Eric Schmidt & Dave BSearchWatch laterShareCopy linkInfoShoppingTap to unmute2xIf playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.Pull up for precise seekingNavigating the AI Landscape: Opportunities and Risks31:34•You're signed outVideos you watch may be added t... See more

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Gartner: More than 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027

If you don’t have time to read this post, these five graphs give most of the argument. Each includes both the energy/water cost of using ChatGPT in the moment and the cost of training GPT-4 divided by the number of prompts:

Modern resistance to AI is just the latest chapter in a long history of moral anxiety about ease.

The internet has created new forms of leverage analogous to the printing press, democratizing access to information and tools for creation. Digital platforms enable network effects that would have been impossible in earlier eras. Computational power (AI, etc) allows us to solve problems systematically in ways that would have seemed divine.

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“I do not fear the rise of superintelligence; I do, however, fear the rise of rapacious and selfish individuals, organizations, and governments who seek to use computing in any form to extend their power and control over others.” —Grady Booch

There are plenty of caveats that come with the talking dogs of AI. Not just the hallucinations or the dislocations. There are issues of climate, of control and of access. But, as in all the past technology revolutions we’ve faced, highlighting the problems and walking away is probably not the best way to have influence or impact.

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every share is a flex.

sometimes it’s loud (“look how smart i am”)

sometimes it’s soft (“this moved me”)

but it’s always identity signaling.

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