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The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

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118 points LordAtlas | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.288s | source
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ForHackernews ◴[07 Dec 25 17:42 UTC] No.46183481[source]▶
> Businesses aren’t asking “do we want AI capabilities?” They’re asking “how much can we get, and how soon?”

This is only because businesses are full of folks with short-sighted FOMO desperately trying to cram AI features into any product they can. AI is the new digital clock.

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AbrahamParangi ◴[07 Dec 25 18:11 UTC] No.46183692[source]▶
Candidly, the accusation of short-sightedness doesn't really make sense when it comes to enthusiasm in a technology which often in practice falls short today but which in certain cases and in more cases tomorrow than today is worth tremendous business value.

If anything, you should accuse them of foolhardy recklessness. They are not the sticks in the mud.

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1. marcyb5st ◴[07 Dec 25 19:12 UTC] No.46184190[source]▶
Can a company like openAI be worth an estimated 1/5th of Alphabet, which offers a similar product but also has an operative system, a browser, the biggest video platform, the most used mail client, its own silicon to running that product, the 3rd most popular Cloud platform, ... ?

I think that is the recklessness in question. Throw in that there is no profit for OpenAI & co and that everything is fueled by debt and the picture is grim (IMHO)