• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just a few hundred billion more and I’m sure that somebody will figure out a profitable use for AI that isn’t scamming old people.

  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I hate these fucking articles. That’s how it works with every new tech/industry etc. Everyone spends billions and billions hoping it becomes profitable 10-20 years from now, maybe it does maybe it doesn’t, we can’t know but that’s how this shit has always and will always work for basically every new tech or research that happens.

    Maybe complain about countries not taxing corporations enough, but not how new industries and technologies are funded.

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      Not these kind of figures. Only a quarter of countries have annual GDPs larger than what’s been spent so far this year. This is on a scale not seen before.

      What makes it worse is that it’s being spent on something which consumes huge resources and has no purpose except giving a few people more power as they would control what these systems would say is true.