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Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
(www.theguardian.com)
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Anyone remember the dot-com bubble?
Every time you think of something and don't understand why it happens, it does good to ask about every neighboring assumption "what if not".
Why am I saying this?
Because AGI created this way is impractical and economically useless, that's fundamental. One can even say "elementary".
What if they are not trying to create AGI?
What if they are not trying to make money?
What if they want a bubble burst, not fear it, and want it to be as big as the sky, so that Western economies would crumble and their surveillance systems were the only thing standing, together with other functioning machines?
From the answers depends the optimal strategy for other parties, suppose, maybe turning their Big Beautiful Bubble Burst into just another dot-com bubble, via adoption of this technology for actually useful applications, is something we should strive towards.