- IBM’s CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— and said that there’s “no way” to turn a profit at current costs.
- “$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest,” Arvind Krishna told “Decoder.”
- Krishna was skeptical of that current tech would reach AGI, putting the likelihood between 0-1%.
“Never interfere with an enemy while they are making a mistake”
We can quibble about if they are true enemies but these AI companies are certainly not our allies.
I hope to live long enough to see Facebook/Google/Amazon be acquired by an investment firm and sold for parts.
I don’t know whether that holds true when they’re damaging so many things in the process. If it was only themselves they were hurting, sure…leave them to it.
Meh, better they get ordered to become Nationalized, all their IP licensed GNU, a budget allocated for their maintenance, data harvesting stripped, and anyone can submit PRs.
True public infrastructure.