Fuck AI

More data won't make a difference. Differences will still happen. Training is what matters, and what demands nation-state levels of power. You can run some very fancy models right on your dang telephone. I think you could implement Not Hotdog on a Game Boy Camera.

The long-term goal remains straight-up sci-fi artificial intelligence. Current models and methods might not get there, but they got us a lot closer in quite a hurry. A lot of cool stuff we were certain could only be done by an intelligent system... yeah, not so much. So once again "AI is whatever hasn't been done." What has been done will be fascinating in video games, movies, and an endless fountain of anime pornography.

Expecting any of that to be worth a trillion dollars is a fairy tale.

The two letters y'all should consistently be mad at are "VC."

They were the problem with cash you can e-mail becoming a speculation disaster, they were the problem with digital commemorative plates becoming an industry comprised entirely of scams, they are the problem with every company's C-suite racing to squander money on using this hot new tech for... something. And at some point they'll move onto the next whiz-bang innovation that's maybe-sorta-kinda useful, and well-meaning people will complain about that thing as if the thing is what's wrong.