“"Emarketer’s data finds that standalone chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot app, Google AI Mode, and Amazon Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) in U.S, will generate less than $1 billion in ad revenue this year, and just $5.41 billion by 2030" Lol www.…”
“Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by Ed Elson of Prof G Markets to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror show, and how our culture conflates wealth with intelligence. youtu.be/XkDEU…”
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Ed Zitron: Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading…
Ed Zitron: Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading…
“I believe that letting AI burn will allow for the tech industry to contemplate the mistakes that brought us here. And possibly — maybe — find a path to redemption. Maybe. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/”
“It’s not hard to see how fragile the AI industry is, and how primed it is to explode, and how damaging that explosion will be — and the media will be partially to blame for championing AI companies and ignoring the risks until it was too late. www.wheresyou…”
“Here's the first joint episode of Better Offline X TrashFuture, covering SoftBank’s crazy annual shareholder meeting and the general collapse of the AI bubble. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... linktr.ee/betteroffline”
“No matter who ends up holding the bag at the end, the conclusion of the AI bubble will see the earnings — and the stock prices — of memory companies crumble. It'll be painful for everybody both before and after it bursts. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-hat…”
“Here's this week's Better Offline monologue. I run you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building memory for GPUs, and how this situation may end in disaster for everyone involved. podcasts.apple.c…”
“I joined the Times Tech Report to talk Oracle’s credit downgrade, how OpenAI poses a material threat to the future of Oracle, Larry Ellison’s wealth, and even the Paramount/WBD deal, and how OpenAI could be the Lehman Brothers of AI. youtu.be/T757udwH45Q?...”
“Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I run through how OpenAl's collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy Larry Ellison's empire. youtu.be/tUb-B10h_qc?... Linktr.ee/betterof…”
“Had a great chat with @aarontmak.bsky.social at Politico about AI, regulating phone notifications and marketing emails like emissions, and how a book about financial shenanigans changed how I think about the future. www.politico.com/newsletters/...”
“Had a great chat with Investor’s Business Daily about the AI bubble, OpenAI, SoftBank, why this is nothing like the dot com bubble, and how big tech has run out of hypergrowth ideas. youtu.be/syJ7kjXfJ-U?...”
“Here's this week's Better Offline - I'm joined by @gamersnexus.bsky.social to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it’ll be when things unwind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVH7…”
“Joined the tech report to talk about how Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon buying AI GPUs is making memory - and everything else - more expensive in tech, and turning them into asset-heavy, cashflow-negative monoliths based on their disastrous bet on gener…”
“Joined the tech report to talk about how Meta selling its compute - and NVIDIA continuing to pay to rent back its GPUs - are clear signs that we're overbuilding GPU capacity, and how that might go terribly wrong in the future. https://t.co/n3fwMb1AXd”
Ed Zitron: Written by effective altruism cofounder William mcaskill
Amy Hoy: no, and even asking the question shows you don’t understand the merest basics of how llms work every single chat “turn” is brand new from scratch. there is no “there” there. no personality, no cont…
alsweigart.bsky.social: I've worked in tech for twenty years and have been working closely with LLMs for the last 18 months. This is the first time I've heard of ChatGPT Atlas.
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