yes huge profits there; should have clarified that (was focused on the GenAI companies). Jensen will continue to mint money.
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Gen AI Hype: Solution Seeking Problem, Billions at Risk
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In reality, there is a thick cloud of smokey hype around AI, and it's not clear that the promises being made by the corps betting billions will ever be fulfilled (IMO gen AI is ~a solution in search of a problem so big it justifies the $$ to create/run it, which few do). 6/
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Public Funding Diversion: AI Research vs Essential Services
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Which raises a much more urgent question: does AI justify the diversion of such funding from, say, libraries, parks, schools, etc. to Google, Amazon, Microsoft on behalf of research? And if so, where's the hard proof backing this significant tradeoff? 7/
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Academic AI Research Dependency on Big Tech Infrastructure
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IRL, no academic can afford to pay retail ($100b training runs, y'all). So, academic labs vie for access/proximity to Big Tech infra in pursuit of doing 'relevant' research–something that should alarm fans of academic neutrality/those concerned w conflict of interest. 3/
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Government funding Big Tech deepens corporate AI infrastructure control
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BUT the current proposals to alleviate this imbalance largely exacerbate it. Insofar as they amount to gov paying Big Tech to get academics access to Big Tech resources. This strengthens Big Tech control & further normalize access to Big Tech infra as "the way AI gets done." 4/
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Big Tech Marketing and AI Resource Allocation Critique
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But it's not just this. By accepting the frame that such access is vital/necessary, we're buying into Big Tech marketing that says AI is real, lasting, and requires the diversion of billion$ (that could be spent otherwise). 5/
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Big Tech AI Control Problem: Current Solutions Risk Extending Dominance
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Notable that this longstanding problem, which I and a few others have been naming for ~a decade, is now common sense. It's true. AI is fundamentally a technology controlled by Big Tech. But the current 'solutions' to this problem would extend, not dilute, Big Tech control. 1/ https://
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Big Tech dominance limits academic AI research access
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The issue: Big Tech has the $$ infrastructure, data, ability to pay talent, and access to market which no one else does. So as academics, you either pay retail for access, or get it discounted/free by yoking yourself to Big Tech (via dual affiliation, or just being hired). 2/
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Two GPT-4 Level LLMs Released in One Week
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Two GPT-4 level LLMs in a week… let's see how OpenAI responds
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GenAI dominates 80% of AI investment, stifles alternatives
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GenAI is probably 80%+ of AI investment right now. Maybe more. That is the monopoly I was and am referring to. Some of it is from VC, some internal from companies. Very little oxygen for alternative approaches right now.