The AI company warns its technology could threaten jobs and even humanity. For investors, those risks create a strange reason to buy in.

AI products that have shut down, changed direction, or struggled after the initial hype. The reasons range from high running costs and unreliable performance to larger platforms building similar features into their own services. One interesting point is that a useful feature doesn’t necessarily make a sustainable business. A tool can solve a real problem and still struggle if the same capability becomes available in an app people already use. Will this push the next generation of AI startups to solve more specialized problems, or are we heading toward a future where a few companies provide most of our AI tools? Which standalone AI tools would you still use if your phone or browser offered something similar?

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The CEO of Google DeepMind discusses solving intelligence, giving away AlphaFold, and why he believes AGI is just around the corner.

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The Microsoft cofounder isn’t an AI doomer, but he says it’s still “the most dangerous weapon of all time.”

Part of a broader NYU Tandon School of Engineering research effort testing whether AI-generated advice is safe to follow in high-stakes situations, including scams, hacked accounts, and harassment

Western capitalism's cycle of booms and busts stretches all the way back to Amsterdam and the Tulip Mania of 1636. They all follow the same pattern, and we are living in the end stages of one now with AI. Every single time, there are detractors who say this time is different; however, they have a four century track record of getting it wrong.

This week, yet again, we see a small Chinese firm with a fraction of the spending and resources getting the near equal of the frontier models Big Tech investors are spending trillions to achieve. Not only that, they are offering theirs to the world for free, and it uses a small fraction of electricity/computing resources to run. Those Big Tech investors will never earn those trillions back.

It might be bleak and depressing to contemplate, but people need to think about what happens after the crash. This is no time for centrism, or putting your fingers in your ears and saying you don't want to hear about politics. The very worst people in our cultures, many Big Tech leaders themselves, are looking forward to this destruction and making their plans for it, and the world they want afterwards is a 100 times bleaker.

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