AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

Does this article being unreadable prove that it was at least written by a human? Frustrating tradeoff.

This is a pretty confusing article. It seems to string together some loosely related facts to make the current AI boom look bad.

"GPU compute powering crypto for the last decade..."

I keep hearing this lately. Also, that GPU compute has been re-purposed from crypto to AI.

I had the impression that crypto was powered by ASICs for the last... many years. And that was why GPU mining (let alone CPU mining) was not profitable

I don't understand how you could compare crypto, which has no utility and no fair value, with AI which is used by hundreds of millions of people every day to achieve real outcomes.

We created the content their systems are built on, yet they won’t even share how much energy each query uses, how much water goes to cooling

"You read my blog so now show me your utility bill" is... an interesting argument.

Aren't human skills the tulips? That's why we're recording all kinds of movements; tokens become generic execution currency.

In the meantime tulips prove math theorems that humans couldn't solve. Ridiculous article title (I wouldn't read it)

this article reminds me of Greta for some reason .. wonder what she's upto these days ?

Or the 1990s Beanie Babies.

Or hell, 2 years ago with "those fucking apes", aka NFTs.

Or, the Meta-Verse. Yeah, that really took.... Off.