• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 hours ago

    Turns out telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined. Imagine spending hundreds of millions buying political influence, only to discover voters don’t enjoy being treated like obsolete hardware.

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      5 hours ago

      telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined.

      “but what you guys aren’t getting is the fact that it’ll make me a lot more money.”

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      5 hours ago

      AI is still not viable business. All that fear mongering is to create an alternative revenue sources.

      “look, I created a monster that can destroy us all. Please give me money to contain and tame it. We can’t destroy it because our enemies are creating their own monsters.”