alt Hacker NewsIt's greed at the top pushing the market into insanity. "AI" vendors are dangling the carrot of "eliminate manpower" in front of the manpower-owning class and they are throwing everything they have at it. The wealth that's been thrown into this hole could have payed for a couple million work-years of developers.
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There are, what, about 50 million developers worldwide?
So instead of AI that pretty much everyone can use, we could have had 3 or 4 weeks of business as usual?
If AGI is the next evolutionary goal, its the difference between being stuck and not.
Wealth is also only relevant in a capitalistic system, which we invented. It could easily be that all other species never created capitalism and are therefore waiting for us somewere which we will not reach because we are stuck on 'wealth'.
And if we are stuck in a local minimum, it might seem that GPT-2 broke us out of there.
Insanity in the market is drawing in profit-seekers. "Greed at the top pushing the market into insanity" isn't really something that can happen: greedy folks are adept at leveraging incentive structures that have already emerged, but very bad at trying to purposefully shift macro-level incentives at a grand scale (which is something that humans in general are quite bad at).