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        I’m going to take a shot in the dark here and guess that the people inside the AI industry aren’t surprised either. They’re just playing a game of fiscal hot potato hoping they’re not the ones left holding it when the music stops.

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          I think there are plenty that are high on their supply. Lots of them truly believe AI will save the world.

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            I’m a bit more cynical than that. I’m pretty sure that the “AI is the future!”/“AI will destroy humanity, we must tame it!” crowds are just a well-orchestrated horse and pony show.

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              Nah. Even a prolific person like Peter Theil is doing it because he has a warped sense of reality and thinks he’s stopping the antichrist by pushing technology forward.

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                He’s not really in the industry though. He’s an investor in it. By “in the industry” I mean the people running the LLM companies or working on the LLMs. I just can’t see someone who actually works with those things thinking that there’s real intellect coming forth from them when even a tech ignoramus like me can spot the obvious signs that these things are fake.

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                    Well that is probably true, but I’m pretty sure his engineers are smart enough to know LLMs have no place in automated anything other than bullshit makers.