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The AI lie: how trillion-dollar hype is killing humanity
AI must incorporate human judgement to avoid legal risks
From annotating and cleaning training data to moderating the content of outputs, tens of millions of humans are still enmeshed in almost every step of advancing GenAI, but the big foundational model companies can’t afford to admit this. It’s a pyramid scheme of hype: persuade the public that AGI is imminent, secure massive funding, build more giant data centers that burn more energy, and hope that, somehow, more compute will bridge the gap that honest science says may never be crossed. Think about the ups and downs of self-driving cars; despite carmakers’ huge autonomy promises – Tesla has committed to driverless robotaxis by 2027 – Goldman Sachs recently lowered its expectations for the use of even partially autonomous vehicles.
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