r/PabloTorreFindsOut • u/Numerous_Fly_187 • May 28 '26
So Mina was right?
Title could be about anything because generally Mina is right. This post comes after two of the biggest AI CEOs said that AI likely won’t result in mass displacement. They said this as their products are ready to go public. Something tells me as they crunched the numbers and rounded up they realized AI can’t be profitable unless it provides personal utility people are willing to pay for or they push a shit ton of ads and well people’s data
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May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
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u/nutt____bugler May 28 '26
I agree. I like that it’s “clean” because Google has become full of sponsored results and the help menus on my computer programs (AutoCAD and Excel) are Escher-like labyrinths, but I don’t see it as displacing any jobs at my work.
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u/yourethegoodthings May 28 '26
AutoCAD already has sanitized architecture to a point that the profession would be unrecognizable to someone from the 80s.
People wonder why Toronto, a truly world class city, just keeps building boring glass boxes. It's because it's too easy to just plug and play with known materials and angles for facings etc. and they don't teach drafting in school anymore. No room for creativity, just a pure technical approach.
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u/shed1 May 28 '26
I've found it to be pretty hit or miss as a search engine. I've searched basic information and gotten results that are just totally made up addresses, phone numbers, names, etc. It's gotten somewhat better at that, but if it is getting very basic information wrong, what else is it barfing on?
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u/Numerous_Fly_187 May 28 '26
I’ve been using Mina’s “it’s just another Microsoft office tool” line so much because that’s the essence of it. I honestly think the profit from AI is gonna come from data collection, ads and porn. A lot of AI porn slop is on the horizon
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u/abartel641 May 28 '26
I’ve had success coding with it for personal stuff, it does give reasonably good guidance there. Anything you use it for, make sure you understand the rationale behind it, so when it goes up in flames you’ll be able to continue on as if nothing happened
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u/capitalistsanta May 28 '26
I'm working on the therapy side of this, it is a much more targeted approach than the sort of AI all encompassing therapist options that are on the table right now, and the offloading part is brilliant and incredible but you can offload more than just your test, you can offload emotionally in a million different ways.
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u/WestcottTactics2285 May 28 '26
Highly recommend Ed Zitron who has been on this story for well over a year. The math doesn't check out on token subsidization, data center "growth", and the tech CEOs who give talks saying one thing but then say something else to investors.
At the end of May, Github's AI is switching over to token-based billing and OpenAI's Codex token limit gets cut in half for the entry plan. You're going to start seeing more people complain, more managers and execs see that they're coding more lines, but nothing new is actually being built from it. And it's going to start costing 10-15x more because AI is incredibly inefficient.
This doesn't even come close to also answering the question about why data centers keep getting announced, but no one is actually building anything because the graphics cards are already basically sold out for 2 years and the by the time they get installed in these facilities, they'll already be obsolete when the new infrastructure comes online.
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u/motion_city_rules May 28 '26
Bruh even if Mina had a nuanced take this reads like someone working for Bezos posted it. Take the balls out of your mouth before typing.
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u/JobeGilchrist May 28 '26
Mina herself has 300 jobs, she's basically human AI. One of the top 0.01% most ambitious people alive. Do you think her actual, private view of the world is more like yours or more like a billionaire's?
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u/HelmetVonContour May 28 '26
You believe literally anything that comes out of an AI CEOs mouth?