What if AI companies already know that they cant deliver?
I’m seeing more and more appearances by the heads of AI companies who spout all sorts of stories that just strike me as pure marketing.
- An AI that’s ‘run amok’ here
- Appeals to safety
- Grand narratives about everything that can be done, but no results.
What if the CEOs have already realised that (no matter how much data you feed into these machines) no ‘intelligence’ will come out of it? The term ‘artificial intelligence’ is, after all, just a marketing term. ‘A probability-ordered jumble of letters’ simply doesn’t sound as good.
They’re slowly realising that the huge hopes and the massive investment appetites can’t generate as much return as hoped. That in most cases, the computing power exceeds the actual benefit. And now they’re not quite sure what to do with it, and there’s no choice but to keep the narrative of great intelligence alive.
I’m not saying there are no applications; there are already good areas of application. But you can’t make the models exponentially better simply by adding more data points.