• Tja@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Those are going to make a ton of money for a lot of people. Every 1% fuel efficiency gained, every second saved in an industrial process, it’s hundreds of millions of dollars.

    You don’t need AI in your fridge or in your snickers, that will (hopefully) die off, but AI is not going away where it matters.

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      3 months ago

      Those are going to make a ton of money for a lot of people.

      Right, but not any one person. The people running the hype train want to be that one person, but the real uses just aren’t going to be something you can exclusively monetize.

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        3 months ago

        Depends how you define “a ton” of money. Plenty of startups have been acquired for silly amounts of money, plenty of consultants are making bank, make executives are cashing big bonuses for successful improvements using AI…

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          3 months ago

          I define “a ton” of money in this case to mean “the amount they think of when they get the dollar signs in their eyes.” People are cashing in on that delusion right now, but it’s not going to last.