Skip to main content

On Sale: GamesAssetsToolsTabletopComics
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
(1 edit) (+2)

Hi, I thought that this was an interesting piece.
So if I understand it, you’re saying that the biggest threat isn’t that AI could go rogue and take us out- it’s that we’re heading for a new iteration of the dot.com bubble crisis, this time with a side order of wider job losses because companies buy into the “false”promises of what AI can deliver. 

Have I got that right?

My thought which doesn’t seem to be a big sticking point for government isn’t the cost to us in cash, it’s the water and power these developments require and the ancillary effects on the environment- apparently AI is going to solve all that for us!

(+1)

thank you! :) yes that’s right, and i totally agree haha! that’s why i think the role of power firms cannot be understated, since they went from having to invest in more (economically) expensive green solutions to having all the supply of cheap energy needed to support AI.

of course, it should be mentioned that all these firms generally have the same shareholders (in financial firms), so they are not just operating out of self-interest but also because the economy is more centrally planned than we usually conceive.

(+1)

If you’re right, then this will go the same way as the dot.com and banking crises. Some people will make oceans of cash and the rest of us will be left paying the bills.

Cameron’s Terminator franchise wouldn’t have got many sequels if Skynet was really just a hi-tech rerun of the Big Short!