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TranscriptScreenshot of a Mastodon post by Kevin Beaumont: "Generative Al government lobbying."

Photo of AI/tech company CEO's, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.

Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, if an industry consortium bought 1 trillion USD worth of semiconductor parts to prevent the AI winter of the 1970s, it would have looked like a foolhardy move unless some group of researchers happened to get drunk in the correct bars and be sober for the correct investor meetings, leading to early discovery of attention and leapfrogging even today's AI research to achieve several orders of magnitude efficiency gains in training so as to satisfy the eager compute capabilities of the 1970s.

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