But they smell like stale Cheese-Whiz

"Cool a bit"? If the general truth about the subsidizing of prices gets out, we are looking at a big bubble burst at least as bad as the dot-com poppage.

Investor funds and market-share-fights have kept AI prices low or free, but of course that can't last forever. I suspect one prominent but stressed AI company will spill the beans about fake pricing ("we all do it!"), putting pressure on the rest to prove that claim is false, which they'll fail, spooking investors, ending the run, and triggering a recession.

All those job ads asking 7 years of experience in a product that's only been out 3 are real! Illegal pet-eating time-travelers are working multiple jobs in parallel using Flux Capacitors smuggled from Uyghur child labor camps in Jiiihna!

Seriously, though, I met a couple of coders who admitted they lie on their resumes about stack experience and even volunteered tips on how to fake it. Lying makes me even more nervous during interviews such that I prefer to avoid it. I don't have the calm and cool genes to pull it off, Sydney Sweeney got all those.

Work-from-home immigrant AI workers are eating the pet-bots! I saw it on TV!

Even if this is somehow honest, it risks bad P/R and fuels conspiracy chatter. I can see Google donating to a general environmental fund, but they shouldn't run specific programs. Google should stay in its lane.

Teachers can't teach real first principle thinking, only rote learning and memorization. 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 = 4, etc. Our education system was built in the 1950's to produce factory workers. It was already obsolete, now it's really showing how useless it is.

Teachers as they are today obsolete. Let them say whatever they want it is sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I am really not certain what we do with people who are incapable of first principles thinking. They are going to be a huge burden on society.

Squeak squeak!

Just get corn-on-the-cob, it will self-pop after this mess.

Careful what you wish for, the plutocrats always find a way to make us plebeians bail them out.

Don got a gold bar in his knickers after hearing that.

"algorithmic funds" have been around for a long time. Letting neural nets guess rather than a hand-coded algorithm guess is not much different, conceptually. It's generally the type of investment that "high rollers" select.

I'm about 10000 words into the encyclical, and there is a LOT more in it than "it's about AI". The first section was on war and nuclear proliferation, and a call for dialog. Then we get to the importance of vocation and the dignity of work. I haven't even gotten to AI yet.

Somebody forgot to validate the word-count

"AI will save Linux from Rust"

MBA 1: "Hmm, how can we squeeze more revenue out of this gizmo?"

MBA 2: "Short term revenue or long term?"

MBA 1: "Short term of course! It's all we do."

MBA 2: "Then stuff it with more ads!"

MBA 1: "Brilliant!