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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

As someone who follows the startup space (and is thinking of starting their own, non-AI driven startup), the issue is all of the easily solvable problems have already been solved. The only thing that shakes up the tree is when new tech comes along and makes some of the old problems easy to solve.

So take a look at crypto - If you wanted to make a tip bot on Telegram, before crypto that was really hard. You needed to register with something like PayPal, have the recipient register with PayPal, etc etc etc. After crypto it was "Hey this person sent you 5$, use this private key if you want to recover it" (btw I made this service and it was used a lot).

Now look at AI - Imagine making a service that detects CSAM before AI took off. As an aside, I did NOT make this service, but I know a group of people who did. Imagine trying to make this without the AI boom - you'd need millions of images for training data, a PhD in machine learning, and so much more. Now, anyone can make it in their basement.

The point is, investors KNOW the bubble is a bubble and that it will pop. It doesn't matter though. They're looking for people who will solve problems that previously cost 1bln to solve with only 1mln of funding. If even 1% of their companies pay off, they make a profit.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

bubble after bubble after bubble after...

problem is, the amount of soap(money) that goes around to make the bubbles keeps shrinking because the bubbles are siphoning it away from the consumers.

I wonder what happens when there's no more soap left to go around?

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[–] LemmyBe@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Checks to see if Baidu is doing AI…yes, they are. How shocking.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago

“probably 1% of the companies will stand out and become huge and will create a lot of value, or will create tremendous value for the people, for society. And I think we are just going through this kind of process.”

Baidu is huge. Sounds like good news for Baidu!

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Tech makes bubbles because people think it’s magic.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I think less restrictive AI that are free, like Venice AI (you can ask it pretty much anything and it will not stop you) will be around for longer than ones that went with restrictive subscription models, and that eventually those other ones will become niche.

New technology always propagates further the freer it is to use and experiment with, and ChatGPT and OpenAI are quite restrictive and money hungry.

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