Open AI is predicting under 13 billion in revenue for 2025

[SamuelTheThird]

They also say they need to spend 1.4 trillion in infrastructure

AI is going to seriously fuck up the economy

[lapfog_1]

1. Open AI has been focusing on the wrong things

stupid chatbots

OTOH, they demo'd something that I really want... instant two way translation of spoken language... but to date they haven't released this yet. Probably because of the enormous amount of resource the AI takes.

I want to have a conversation with someone who either doesn't speak my language or doesn't speak it very well. Whey they speak to me, I want to hear English translation AS THEY SPEAK, then I want to reply and have my reply instantly translated to their language.

Bonus points if you can do the "babelfish" thing ( HHGTTG ) with "brain waves" instead of sound ( i.e. do the translation job, convert the tone to my language but leave it in the voice of the person talking and stimulate my vestibulo-cochlear nerve ). That way, I can listen to a conversation with myself and a few others all speaking their native language ( my voice can come from a device like my cell phone ).

[newdeal2]

3. I thought Apple released something like this

For the new AirPods.

[jfz9580m]

4. Well whatever it is I hope they regulate themselves better

At least the one use of having stalkerish level data piles for no reason remotely connected to security, health or anything should be to predict where there is no growth opportunity.

I don’t want to spend what is left of my life becoming a grifting AI centric influencer adjacent moron fixated on this one stupid field. There are already good tech critics like Ed Zitron or Yasha Levine taking those creeps on and regulators like Lina Khan.

But where they are engaged in these space grabs of spaces and thjngs we never thought required regulation and shouldn’t in an economy with fewer crass bandits.

But well they should look for warnings and signs and just leave some neighborhoods, spaces and people alone to spare everyone a lot of wasted time and energy. As is I bet they can expect a lot of outrage. I don’t let these creeps normalize stuff.
But well one doesn’t want to add to the spectacle and participate in the other shady attention and junk industry which is criticism of rubbish and influencing- a profession that shouldn’t exist.

Now activism I understand. Not the attention getting kind so much as stuff that actually quietly changes laws etc and pushes these irritating invasive pestilential industries out without more tumorigenic “tech criticism and blah blah”.

It should just be shut down. No fake, forced engagement with these creeps. Off with their heads..seriously..well not literally but in spirit.

[2naSalit]

2. They should...

Lose their asses into oblivion.

[hatrack]

5. BUT BUT BUT Big Shiny New Techno-Future Money Investor Opportunity Stock Thing!!!!

MUST HAVE NEW BIG SHINY THING.

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. All that infrastructure means a lot of jobs.

The amount of work for these data centers is a huge boon to my industry, electrical construction. The amount of power they call for is enormous. A friend of mine is currently working on one in PA and it’s the biggest job he’s ever seen. It’s a hundred million square feet with over three hundred electricians on site already and they have another one starting soon that’s twice the size.

I don’t know that it’s going to hurt the economy. More jobs, more money spread around seems like a good thing to me.

[EdmondDantes_]

7. If AI works out like the investors want, it will kill employment

And while in theory data centers can be reused AI fails, they require enormous power to run which will require we build more power plants. The world is already burning.

And unlike the network cable build out of the dot com bubble, the gpus have a pretty short life span.

Building just to build isn't sustainable even if it creates jobs in the short term.

[SamuelTheThird]

9. Jobs from data centers will not make up for everything else

Not even close. More and more money is being invested in things that won't turn a profit. Meanwhile job losses from companies from a wide spectrum will mount.