I'm not agreeing with some of the points in here. That said the core position of "it should be about collaboration not automation" I'm very much aligned with. It's after all at the center of how we designed AI systems in my team twenty years ago. We really wanted systems helping the user in their task and so co-constructing the result with the support of the machine rather than some kind of "oracle"

Are we surprised? Unfortunately not, they almost increased their indirection emissions 8 folds in a few years. And it could get worse still.

Looks like the mess on hardware prices will continue for a while...

Or why it's stupid to judge people on their non virtuous behavior while at the same time fostering the structures which ensure that virtue does not pay. So indeed, some people read the odds properly and act accordingly...

The hardware prices are nuts right now... and there's no end in sight yet.

More reasons why the whole "data centers in space idea" is stupidly dangerous and likely unreachable.

Very sobering opinion piece. For all the talks about a China / USA race, it feels more like two flavors of the same dystopia. The race is just here to justify acting against their own population interest. The result is then the increase in illiberal fixations and nihilistic world views. This can't end well.

Or why modern economics mostly loose the plot when you try to factor Open Source in there simplistic theories.

Long, rich, and sourced piece. Or why the current gold rush aims at accelerating wealth accumulation of a few to the expense of everyone else. If the plans work as intended, the outcome won't look good.

This part of the industry is struggling more and more (or more likely silently taking more risks to hide the struggle). It has no path to sustainability and it starts to show.

The insurances are starting to crumble under the risks. Looks like it's time to do something about it.

It's getting clearer that the industrial LLM complex will have a hard time meeting its targets.

A good explanation and illustration of how natural monopolies work. This is why you want to regulate infrastructure properly.

Real innovations come from constraints. The frugal AI movement is clearly where we will see interesting things emerging. Interestingly, those approaches are closer to what AI is about as a research field than the industrial complex which got unleashed with all its extractive power.

The price hike on RAM due to the LLM as a service bubble is really killing interesting fields. Can't we have nice things? Will the arm race end soon?

This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.

Are we on the verge to a push toward a mainframe based future? I really hope not, but for sure the hardware prices surging won't make things easy.

Let's not forget the ethical implications of those tools indeed. Too often people put them aside simply on the "oooh shiny toys" or the "I don't want to be left behind" reactions. Both lead to a very unethical situation.

Interesting analysis. It gives a balanced view on the possible scenarios around the AI hype.

Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the user which looses.