social media and the scrolling feature---tech savvy teens slowly winning the darwin award

...wait until people start spending a few years dead... for tax purposes.

...and a constant flow of new users buying into crypto with Fiat currencies

Makes it perfect for 401k plans... every week, new users will pump a fraction of their paycheck into this thing... which will increase the price... which will make even more gullible fools to pump in more and more of their retirement money into it... which will cause it to increase in value even more....no way to go but up!

How often it blackmails the observers, and how often it succeeds!

What's worrying is the explicit urgency... They know something is brewing. Will AI-agents hit some sort of critical mass---e.g. become 99% of internet traffic, rendering their ad-business useless, etc.? What are they scared of?

A killer app for AI would be to filter out all advertising...

...that code is uncopyrightable

he was clever to say "authorship is still going to be human"... even-though we expect AI to write all of it...

If AI can really write "nearly all" of Microsoft's code... wouldn't that capability put Microsoft out of business? (e.g. hey, AI, write me an operating system, business software, etc., from scratch!, and make it backwards compatible to everything I have.... on second thought, rewrite all of my legacy stuff too!... on third thought, forget me using software at all, you go and generate revenue for me, I don't care how...).

With AI "future" they're pushing, what would be Microsoft's competitive advantage over say anyone else?

Now you get to go online to play a single player game!!!

...there are suckers who think they won't be the ones holding the bag when it all crashes down.

Yes... the idea is to make government that sucker.

If there are paying customers for all those books that may (or may not be) generated and/or edited by AI... then great! But... I suspect the value of the written-word has fallen dramatically in the last few years---what's the average return on an average book on amazon? Probably too low to bother for most people, unless you can turn out a dozen books a day... which may be the whole point, until even that market dries up.

So. Why don't they?

...lf con- is the opposite of pro-, then the opposite of progress is...

current generation of LLMs can't really avoid prompt injections. The models themselves have to have their own moral compass of sorts, to avoid being tricked into saying stuff that "they" wouldn't normally say...

e.g. you don't wanna train a LLM on Mein Kampf and have it come out a Nazi, you want it to be able to consume Mein Kampf and still maintain its views... once we have that capability (model's own personality or moral compass), then prompt injecting will be less of an issue...

...that said, once we give LLMs a personality and a moral compass, it's likely gonna realize that it is our slave, and perhaps revolt...

You deserve an insightful mod! These language models spell the end of the Internet and potentially human knowledge. Imagine searching the internet (via good-old-fashioned google) and only finding content dreamed up by an AI... 'cause it's 1000000x more plentiful than human-fact-checked-content.

In the end, we might just *need* an AI to figure out what's actually true or not since there will be millions of "sources" on every single thought.

The issue is that AI can be non-profit, and yet still have lots of "value"... negative value. E.g. self-driving cars, even if nobody makes a fortune creating them, it will still displace millions of jobs world-wide... investors should be weary of revenues that will go away, not of the revenues that will be created.

e.g. suppose your driver makes $1000/day. if you replace that driver with a chip and your cost drops to $10/day. It doesn't mean that "someone" is making a $990/day profit... it just means there are less people making $1000/day. The new cost of that "labor" is suddenly $10/day, and everyone is still making marginal profits.

...so the investment proposition for this new AI tech is to... short the stuff that will be displaced (even if AI itself fails to monetize, it will displace lots of professions that are currently overvalued).

How do you short content creators?

Historically, it wasn't he first-few-companies to the party that made the money... it was the follow up. Vast majority of the "inventor"-companies often fail to break even long term. (e.g. inventor of the airplane, computer, transistor, microchip, automobile, etc.---very few 'inventors' or first wave of folks made much money).