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Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' (fortune.com)
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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

We've already had a month now of Psychiatrists writing articles backpedaling over all the times they'd insisted AI couldn't genuinely be thinking as we do and moving the goal posts to something else. Maybe there are researchers in the frontier labs who feel like they have a grip on what's happening, but the 'experts' on forums have no idea.