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AI Snake Oil

2024-10-31 20:44:30.327003+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Adam Conover: Two Computer Scientists Debunk A.I. Hype with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (YouTube video). Lots of stuff that's familiar to people who've heard me rant, but the observation around 23:30 that "AI snake oil is appealing to broken institutions" is kinda landing.

I have been thinking a lot about the fact that LLM ownership is a commodity market, you'd be a fool to not make your AI veneer product able to exchanged underlying LLMs because the LLM is essentially reduced to commodity, but the realization that when you're dropping all of your decision-making into an underlying monoculture means that business differentation is going to even more depend on not relying on "AI".

And "So many of our rituals in the business world are bullshit" is, perhaps, optimistic, but also...

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