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aleph_minus_one • last Wednesday at 8:26 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

> The famous theory of Dario Amodei was that AI was this winner-takes-all field where the first team to get a head start would never cede ground back.

This is the kind of story that ones tells to investors to justify the huge amount of cash burn. :-)


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mapontosevenths • last Wednesday at 8:28 PM

I'm not sure it's wrong. This all feels a bit dotcommy to me.

I think many/most of the players will crash and burn, and the ones that are left will divide the world.

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ehsankia • last Wednesday at 8:38 PM

I guess if one of them hits singularity, it could in theory just wipe out all the rest, seeing how they keep escaping and hacking into other systems :)

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mbesto • yesterday at 12:24 AM

> The famous theory of Dario Amodei was that AI was this winner-takes-all field where the first team to get a head start would never cede ground back.

It's also hilarious, because OpenAI had the lead and ceded ground already.