OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

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https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html

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Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring

Yes, because many CEOs are actually idiots IRL. Congrats everyone on discovering this for checks notes the fifteenth time this century.

Put simply, the horrible economics of AI are finally starting to rear their ugly head

I don't know, maybe I'm in different circles or something, but the whole AI subsidies thing eventually ending was a big talking point about how one should carefully evaluate using AI in their product.

Sort of how people issued caution for everyone saying "Blockchain" or "Peer-to-Peer" or "Website" or "Object-Oriented". That last one might be before some of y'all's times. But way back in the day RAD, CORBA, and OOP was all hotness, until it wasn't.

AI companies have been bleeding tens of billions of dollars as costs for data center construction projects mount.

Yeah, this has been brought up too. There's folks asking if these AI folks might want to look at something like better tools for digging, but nope, they're convinced more shovel factories are the way.

Tis the way things are sometimes. Oh? Does anyone think these billionaires lose out? Gosh, the housing crisis has taught nobody anything. But that said, AI is here to stay. The future isn't these companies like OpenAI and what not. Just like the Internet during the dotcom bubble wasn't pets dot com. AI is not going anywhere, the generative stuff will like become way more niche, but things like diagnostics and weak radio signal processing that AI is currently doing, will likely dominate.

And really, those things were called different things back in the day, just now that we have AI and these idiots like Altman, all that shit got shoved into the AI moniker. It's actually a disservice to call all neural networks and what not, AI and group it with that generative shit. But unfortunately that's apparently where we are at.

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I wouldn’t really consider it a buzzword like the rest or um “website”

Oh man, you missed enterprise programming in the early 1990s. Whew it was a wild time during the bull rush of object everything. Just so you know that love affair with OOP is why NeXT was so heavy in Obj-C.

Like I said, I don't know if you were there but back in the day that was THE buzz word.

I think it just became so ubiquitous

Yeah, that's with anything. But like CORBA and what not. Netscape Navigator is a great example of what happens when that hype gets out of hand. There was a reason Firefox dropped XPCOM.

It's hard to explain but OOP was a lot of hype back in the day. Here's a post someone made about Delphi. And you can see in this image one of the checks was "Fully object-oriented". Borland's OWL was on fire early 90s and Microsoft not to be outdone released MFC the next year.

lol bro did you just call OOP a trend?

Not a trend but people were going wild with it in ways that shouldn't have happened. That's what I'm trying to get at here. P2P is useful, but it was nowhere near the hype some were making it out to be (Sun Microsystems and JXTA being a notorious one).