• Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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    22 hours ago

    They’d have to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make it work, and their investments are not what you’d need to do that. For a mere fraction of the cost of all these datacenter shaped money pits they could build world class research labs that would put the old bell labs to shame, but they…aren’t

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      22 hours ago

      they could build world class research labs that would put the old bell labs to shame

      Knowing Bell Labs’ contributions… this is fucking radicalizing.

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        15 hours ago

        Think of what would happen if you could pay the world’s smartest people in all fields of study $1 million a year salary to work on AI and AI adjacent research? That’s a rounding error at this scale