Good format and hook.
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Supply skyrockets - demand slows. Price... you know what happens.
Someone share an alternative story here - revenue is committed. How do these companies that have bought this compute justify their costs in 2027 and 2028?
On paper this seems reasonable insulation from going rogue.
However normal shareholders, who they are selling stakes in the company to, can do very little.
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Good stuff.
Many more things will be like this. The massive amounts of 'genius' buried under corporate management and obscurity in the past 500 years will be a treasure trove.
If you can take a passport picture with your smartphone and get a passport mailed to you in weeks, it will enable many more people to travel, and cut down on bureaucracy and wait times.
It's much better than having papers in archives, will save many errors, and bring government into the 21st century. The information is already in databases, it's just now that it serves the people's convenience.
My guess is if you went to the Apple Campus and held up an iPhone recording its employees, you'd have the same thing happen to you.
Or can you imagine the reverse, if China managed to hack in with ASI into the U.S. DoD's tech servers for specs on our drones and planes?
There's a gigantic amount at stake. Attacks like the Hezbollah pager attack would be almost trivial with levels of compromise enabled by a sufficiently advanced AI.
It's not clear to me the paper addresses any meaningful part of the risk and hand waves it away.
There's a niche market for certain player's sneakers. If Nike services them at a price point (e.g. $200 base) then people can keep buying from Nike and will buy the next version.
If instead some sneakerbot takes ALL the consumer surplus (buys for $200, resells for $1000) yes that is the actual demand curve but it hurts NIKE'S business and the consumer.
Apollo (credit) notes that AI isn't showing up in the bottom line of any companies besides the ones making it right now.
This isn't concerning for such a new technology, but if the trend continues it would be fatal.
Imagine how many businesses benefitted from the railroads at first - almost none because no one had freight to ship. Same kind of thing - the connective tissue is taking time.
But the catastrophic adoption of the technology could be what leads to its downfall.