besselj@lemmy.ca to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 6 days agoBillionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveriesgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1331arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarebarnaclebutt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·6 days agoOne trillion. That’s the amount of money that has been invested in AI.
minus-squaredangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·6 days agoNah. 80% of it went to billionaires pockets, the rest of it buying power plants, funding ChatGPT wrappers, maybe less than 1% goes to researchers.
minus-squarebarnaclebutt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·6 days agohttps://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/will-the-1-trillion-of-generative-ai-investment-pay-off Also, the article is a year old. It’s VC investments mostly. So billionaires are fleecing billionaires.
One trillion. That’s the amount of money that has been invested in AI.
Nah. 80% of it went to billionaires pockets, the rest of it buying power plants, funding ChatGPT wrappers, maybe less than 1% goes to researchers.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/will-the-1-trillion-of-generative-ai-investment-pay-off
Also, the article is a year old. It’s VC investments mostly. So billionaires are fleecing billionaires.