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Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what
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Meta isn’t helping, or perhaps it is.
Key facts
- There has been much chilly weather in the sunny meadowlands of AI futures
- All these things soak up whatever bandwidth the news media have to AI right now
- A bigger problem is the idea that more powerful AI is always better
- When frontier models have to be kept in LLM jail for uncontrollable dishonesty, not so much
Summary
There has been much chilly weather in the sunny meadowlands of AI futures. All these things soak up whatever bandwidth the news media have to AI right now. Actual crises are frequently triggered by crises in confidence, themselves caused when frameworks of assumption stop standing up to reality and wishful thinking. Thus, the assumption to date is that models will get more powerful and infrastructure more capable, in a way that justifies, demands, massive capex.