alt Hacker News> and can just charge whatever you want for your magic beans.
'Winner take all' doesn't mean convincing others to buy your product. If others have something to buy your product with, you've not taken all, fundamentally.
'Winner take all' means having the most powerful army. The assumption is that once AI crosses a certain threshold then there won't be anything the rest of us can do to stop the machine of whomever gets there first, so they will truly be able to take all. Hence why the AI labs sometimes hint about the risk of human destruction.
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Jeff_Brown • today at 3:31 PM
The army interpretation exists, and might sadly be relevant here, but it's not the only one. Google, for instance, won a nonviolent winner-take-all competition for search.
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If Anthropic or OpenAI will take all using the most powerful army why they would give anything back to their investors? If that's a possibility than investing into AI companies is just gifting money to whoever will control this army.