▲ 798 ▼ Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' (fortune.com) submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 193 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (3 children) The problem with capitalism is that morons can get filthy rich and make poor decisions. Example 1: US president. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago I mean really the same problem with Monarchy. Once someone somehow gets on top very hard to remove them and their descendants from power even if the original person or their descendants are complete idiots. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago There there. Give some credit to the American people. They're the ones that elected him. Twice. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yeah, look at Zuckerberg, who recently burned billions on his crappy virtual reality project, and is now doing the same with AI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago* The stupid thing is there are already profitable VR games that basically do exactly what Zuckerberg was trying to do. So despite the fact that he could just copied somebody else's homework he managed to screw it up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago I mean really the same problem with Monarchy. Once someone somehow gets on top very hard to remove them and their descendants from power even if the original person or their descendants are complete idiots. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago There there. Give some credit to the American people. They're the ones that elected him. Twice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yeah, look at Zuckerberg, who recently burned billions on his crappy virtual reality project, and is now doing the same with AI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago* The stupid thing is there are already profitable VR games that basically do exactly what Zuckerberg was trying to do. So despite the fact that he could just copied somebody else's homework he managed to screw it up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago* The stupid thing is there are already profitable VR games that basically do exactly what Zuckerberg was trying to do. So despite the fact that he could just copied somebody else's homework he managed to screw it up. permalink fedilink source parent