The Fancy Autocomplete cheerleaders at The Mouth of Sauron, er, Axios have four out of eight items in Sunday morning’s email thingie (if you count this breaking news above the lede):
? Bulletin: President Trump announced that his Super Intelligence Force will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton — a former SEC chair and U.S. attorney in Manhattan who’s expected to be AI czar — along with FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Quite a star-studded cast.
The Fancy Autocomplete cheerleaders at The Mouth of Sauron, er, Axios have four out of eight items in Sunday morning’s email thingie (if you count this breaking news above the lede):
🚨 Bulletin: President Trump announced that his Super Intelligence Force will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton — a former SEC chair and U.S. attorney in Manhattan who’s expected to be AI czar — along with FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Quite a star-studded cast.
I understand that the White House chatbot no longer answers questions about who won the 2020 Goat Rodeo, or whether inflation in 2024 was the worst ever, so Team Evil is already on it.I keep reminding everyone that Fancy Autocomplete is a tool, and a tool is only as good as the people who use it. Ever see a bad dent in the woodwork where some chump didn’t know how to use a hammer? That’s the danger.
There’s un incalculable amount of money being spent to build-out the infrastructure that this thing will require, and smarter minds than mine have said it will require trillions of Ameros in revenue —every year— to pay down those investments; Fancy Autocomplete itself has no business model. It is a feature, not a product. There is no way to recoup those costs.
This bubble is keeping the TERRIBLE economy afloat and it will pop sooner or later. That is my fear, not that this plagiarizing machine will end humanity.
The question is not what is the value of this tool, the question is for whom is it valuable?
Published with permission of Mock Paper Scissors
UPDATE: Sam Altman had more to say to POLITICO:
What specific bad things should we allow to happen? The depletion of our water supply? A hastening of climate change? What shall we sacrifice in the name of all-giving AI? - Ed.
