Cory Doctorow on nostr

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

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muddle · 4w

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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) · 4w

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Petra van Cronenburg · 4w

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