Any changes?

Spend a few minutes on LinkedIn and you will find many people talking about how AI fundamentally changes everything. Most of these posts refer to fictional futures or they amplify a 2-second productivity gain into an I-am-now-living-on-Mars-and-you-are-eating-out-of-trash-on-earth post. I'm not even getting into how they ignore the massive ethical issues about LLMs and image diffusion models being built on stolen creative labor and exploitative human reviewer efforts.

It is not cool to say the current AI offerings are just tools, that they are normal technologies. Current frontier models are not normal technologies. They are hype-machines designed to shift economic power and they are doing it by raising capital that they hope to claim back one day, from you directly or indirectly through your government. Last year Anthropic lost $7.70 for every $1 in revenue; this year it is only $1.70 loss per dollar. (more here)

I was very surprised to hear two very grounded takes on where AI is taking us, surprisingly on Lenny's Podcast. Here are the two episodes: