The obvious downside to AI creating answers and software we might not need is it feels wasteful. There is a cost. There is not enough energy and infrastructure. This is the OpenAI bet: that when they scale up, no one else will be able to do what they can do. Except Google.
@manton There might very well be value in having a machine generate “ideas” for future ventures, but it absolutely must be balanced against cost. It’s not a business if it can’t pay for itself. Investors will come looking for a return sooner or later and that’s when the bet is called.
Also: building a gigantic moat does nothing if nobody cares what’s in the castle.
Ugh. Metaphors clashing, sorry. There’s so much churn around AI looking viable as a business that people assume it is without doing the math.