I would respect Ed (and Gary Marcus) more if they would concede the occasional point. But everything AI is always a hyperbolic and unqualified disaster. I suppose that's what the audience wants.

"every bit of AI demand ... that exists only exists due to subsidies"

Really? NOBODY would pay whatever the fully-loaded cost is? What about people running local models on their own GPUs? Are they being subsidized too?

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anonymous_user9 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Are they being subsidized too?

Yes, because they didn't pay the cost to train those models in the first place.

	▲	npilk 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		True, good point. I still think the piece goes too far with its claims.

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therobots927 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Your loss. Dude is on the cutting edge and 90% of Silicon Valley is in a cult.