Is AI profitable analysis essay
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Hey @nytimes.com, can we meet privately over at camera 2? Listen, I know you need to attract eyeballs, & “rogue actors” are like catnip to the public, but calling AI systems “rogue” is a dereliction of duty. They’re not rogue—they’re operating w/in the poor…”
Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Not looking good for #OpenAI. I’m guessing they will slow things down, especially if investors get spooked. Each incident disclosed is worse than the previous one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Gift link to latest on ‘unexpected’ developments with generative AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...”
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AI summer hype skepticism essay
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Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“@timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social puncture the latest AI hype, addressing everything from "hacking" to "math breakthroughs" to "superhuman" machines (and possibly break a record for scare quote usage along the way). www.technologyrevie…”
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“But when those questions are motivated from the lens of "does THIS disprove stochstic parrots?" the reasoning goes off the rails, and it does so in a specific way connected to the role that theoretical math results have played in this summer of hype www.tec…”
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Emily M. Bender: There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with t…
Emily M. Bender: This was started by a person who I think was acting in good faith and seriously interested in understanding, though seems very focused on the question of whether or not the metaphor is "right", eve…
Emily M. Bender: It's not a hypothesis, and never has been. It's simply a description of what language models, run as synthetic text extruding machines, do: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>
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against AI campus higher ed essay
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“Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed Oct 23 > Employers and legislators are pushing Ed Tech and Artificial Intelligence through universities and colleges across the USA. Organized labor needs a comprehensive response Read more and sign up: www…”
Timnit Gebru no AI existential threat
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“@timnitgebru.blacksky.app, a PhD in computer vision; Altman, a dropout funded by Musk and Thiel. One explains how llms/chatbots work; the other is part of a cult that blathers on about 'reasoning,' 'rogue AI, 'digital immortality,' and other nonsense. www.w…”
neural network mysterianism mechanism paper
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“also see @olivia.science zenodo.org/records/2007...”
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AI video promotes Alberta separatism
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AI local laws database built
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“Canada's "AI for All" asks us to trust Bengio's lawzero.org/en, but scroll down for the donors and backers (Nvidia; Musk's Future of Life institute; Gates; Schmidt etc) and you have a classic case of the fox guarding the chicken coop.”
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ChatGPT voter midterm guidance use
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AI global energy emissions footprint
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“A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; here is a good review of the impacts: eraldkolasi.substack.com/…”
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Danya Glabau: Google released a report/press release either 2 or 3 years ago about this time arguing this that was widely read. I remember specifically arguing with engineering colleagues in a curriculum committ…
Danya Glabau: I don't have the link but engineers are still citing "well Google said ..." to me regularly
Teresa Heffernan: A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; her…
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“Continue with the death drive cult or not...hmmm: 'Anthropic is hardly alone in spending more than it takes in.... In July, after pouring money into AI development, Google reported its first quarter of negative cash flow since the company went public' finan…”
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Hagen Blix: Revenue in the second quarter was 11.5bn, fwiw, so it also looks like the revenue growth rate is still up there
Teresa Heffernan: Continue with the death drive cult or not...hmmm: 'Anthropic is hardly alone in spending more than it takes in.... In July, after pouring money into AI development, Google reported its first quarte…
Hagen Blix: Yeah, that's what the financial times said at least. I think "on adjusted basis" (so who knows what they're excluding) it was supposedly the second consecutive profitable quarter
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“"The data center boom is well underway....Do the communities where these are being built realize that each of these centers will become point sources of hazardous waste, requiring disposal of massive amounts of this toxic waste every 2–3 years??" wiki.ban.o…”
