Why won't they pour billions into me? I'd actually put it to good use.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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I'd be happy with a couple hundos.
I'd be happy with a big tiddy goth girl. Jealous of your username btw.
Misleading title. From the article,
Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed.
In no way does this imply that the "industry is pouring billions into a dead end". AGI isn't even needed for industry applications, just implementing current-level agentic systems will be more than enough to have massive industrial impact.
The funny thing is with so much money you could probably do lots of great stuff with the existing AI as it is. Instead they put all the money into compute power so that they can overfit their LLMs to look like a human.
Good let them waste all their money
Its not a dead end if you replace all big name search engines with this. Then slowly replace real results with your own. Then it accomplishes something.
LLMs are good for learning, brainstorming, and mundane writing tasks.
Worst case scenario, I don't think money spent on supercomputers is the worst way to spend money. That in itself has brought chip design and development forward. Not to mention ai is already invaluable with a lot of science research. Invaluable!