Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
Stupendous amounts of venture capital money are still floating around, desperate for a home. The VCs want you to promise magic with technology. They will shower you with cash. Delivering on the mag…
The "fix your data" line matters a lot here. However hard the job is it's entirely feasible for a person to do it. Like, this isn't a case where we need magic to solve the underlying problems, and in a lot of cases there are real advantages to solving them. But doing so would require admitting they had previously done (or are currently doing) stupid or evil things that need to be fixed and paying someone a fair chunk of money to do so.
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees
True, but I want to be absolutely clear that this isn't some kind of "efficiency" or "profit motive" or whatever. Making ever more obscene amounts of money is part of the goal, of course, but I think there's a deeper motivation rooted in not wanting to acknowledge their responsibility for the problems they're trying to solve without giving up the power they have over those institutions and organizations where those problems exist.
Next step is to do it without employees and datacenters. We will contact Turing (for the lesswrong fans, we will contact Von Neumann) via a seance (for a reasonable fee of course).
I’m particularly excited about the potential of AI agents to drive sustainability in manufacturing. One area with immense untapped potential is the sourcing, supply chain management and carbon footprint reduction of sustainable materials. AI could create agents capable of automating the entire process — from identifying the most sustainable raw materials and managing sourcing processes to analysing and improving the environmental impact throughout the production lifecycle.
This reads like satire (unfortunately it's not, unless Sifted is a satirical sister site of FT).